migrant

From letters to landlines, phones to Facebook

+ When Kalim Miya in the UAE and Bhumika in Kuwait found themselves stranded abroad after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic,...

Upasana Khadka

Returning to Nepal has its rewards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzDf8n-eSYKarvika Thapa was living the American dream in Boston with a promising career in the Information Technology sector. But after 14 years...

Chinese farmer strikes roots in Nepal

Standing in his field on the outskirts of Pokhara and below the dazzling snows of the Annapurna mountains, Xiang Shaohua points to...

Why has zero-cost migration not happened?

Recruiters are still taking advantage of the desperation of workers for a better shot at life

Upasana Khadka

Irresistible forces: wage differentials and demographic trends

In many parts of the world the ratio of the working age group to the elderly population is on a decline. By 2050, OECD...

Homestays keep former migrants in Nepal

Hari Bahadur Pun from Madi Valley in Chitwan returned from Malaysia three years ago, and has been running his own homestay since...

Moti Bagh

Vidyadutt Sharma, 83, stands in front of his blue-tinted two storey home, looking out into a 360 panorama of the Himalayan mountains....

Karma’s karma

As hundreds of thousands of Nepali youngsters leave the country in search of greener pastures, a trickle have started to return with...

Migrants abroad left in lurch

Hom Karki in Kantipur, 29 JulyThe Nepal Government banned labour permits aiming to block women from going abroad as domestic workers without...

Punished in Malaysia, ignored in Nepal

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission began prosecution this week against Malaysia’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Internal Affairs Minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, for...