Rural areas of Nepal’s best performing province are better off than its towns
After a dramatic drop in the past decade, poverty is now static despite remittances and state intervention
In the heart of Edinburgh near the Church of St John the Evangelist is One World Shop, a modest-looking store that sells goods from all over the…
An estimated 1,200 children who lost their parents to the pandemic struggle to get by
Photo: WWF NEPALAs the Covid crisis pushes millions of Nepalis back below the poverty line affecting their nutritional status, the UK government…
The pandemic makes Nepalis poorer and ruins the economy, but the government has no solutions
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
Malnutrition among Nepali children pre-dates Covid-19, but the pandemic has made it worse
Photo: WFP NEPALThe Government of Japan is to provide assistance worth $3.47 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Nepal, to…
Dogs huddle for warmth at a fireplace in Janakpur.Just as it has every winter, the cold wave in Nepal’s Tarai has had a devastating impact on…
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
Whether you see the glass as half empty or half full, it is time to take action and move ahead
A group of civil society activists in Nepal has appealed to minimise the impact on agriculture and farmers during the COVID-19 lockdown.A…
Nepalis crossing the border into the country through the Gauriphanta checkpost in Dhangadi, Far Western Nepal. Photos: DINESH KHABARA week…
Lack of access to and awareness of family planning, the prevalence of unhealthy superstitions and taboos, and the desire to produce a son…
A major discrepancy between Nepal government and foreign records of the number of Nepali children adopted in North America and Europe has…
Photo : ALEX DUDLEYNepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five…
The state of the toilet at Kathmandu airport is a better indicator of progress than the Human Development Index
Photo : BIKRAM RAINepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and…
There is no excuse for Nepalis in this day and age to die from the cold
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal has risen in this year’s overall prosperity rankings, but is still the 22nd poorest out of the 29 countries in…
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
Photo: NAMRATA SHARMA A Helsingin Sanomat follow-up series this week of a human trafficking ring operated by some Nepali restaurant owners in…
