Nepalis overseas may be disenfranchised, but they are engaged
A Korean employer helping returnee Nepalis set up their businesses and in turn create jobs for others
Nepali migrant worker turns his childhood passion for music into a profession in Dubai
In small ways, many migrant workers are returning with skills to start businesses back home
A returning migrant worker finds that starting a business and creating jobs in Nepal has its rewards
A migrant worker who rose from nothing to be a successful entrepreneur back home in Nepal
Rights group urges Qatari emir to go beyond pleasantries and guarantee migrant worker rights
His foreign trainees were surprised he was from a landlocked country that has no oil rigs
Foreign employment gives survivors of domestic violence an escape route to independence and dignity
The COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai spotlights working conditions for Nepali migrant workers
After 30 years working for other people in the Gulf, Nepali man is his own boss
The struggle and success of a migrant worker who has returned to Nepal to start a thriving bakery
I left for Bahrain to work as a caregiver in 2007, and it was only five years later that I revisited my passion for art. Ever since I was a…
Hom Nath Giri at his desk in a company in Kuwait City. PHOTO: Hom Nath GiriI am not sure where to start telling you the story of the journey of…
Min Dai in B P Koirala Cancer Hospital in Bharatpur before the surgery to remove his tumour. Min Dai found it difficult to support his wife, two…
All photos: UPASANA KHADKAThousands of Nepal’s outbound workers have been waiting in packed queues for hours, sometimes days, in the capital to…
Nepali family living in Goa for the past 10 years: Amar Tiruva and his wife Radha with their daughter, Antara. Radha died this week, and Amar is…
In 1998, a New York Times report about a 10-year old from Sialkot in Pakistan, who stitched footballs with her mother for a pittance, led to an…
Despite pandemic, workers lured by better earnings, benefits and chance at citizenship
Nepali workers in Dubai after learning of the last minute cancellation of their flight to Kathmandu early Tuesday morning. Photo: NRNA…
The usually bustling beaches of the resorts in the Maldives wear a deserted look.Ninety percent of Nepal’s overseas contract workers are in West…
About 2,000 Nepalis are among foreign workers quarantined in a camp between streets 1-32 of the Industrial Area near Doha that has been closed…
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
Photo: MINISTRY OF LABOUR EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITYPolitics is dirty. The manpower business is dirtier. Mixing the two can mean the…
