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KATHMANDU, 17 July 2009 (IRIN) - Neglect of the rural health system and poor preparedness result in thousands of avoidable diarrhoea-related deaths annually in Nepal, health analysts warn.
The United Nations on Friday welcomed Nepal's pledge to release more than 4,000 former Maoist fighters, most of them child soldiers, by November 2.
Kathmandu - The Nepalese government Friday began the process of freeing thousands of child soldiers who remain in Maoist camps despite the end of an armed conflict over two and half years ago. The move came a day after the government announced it wou...
Nepal will release thousands of former child soldiers living in Maoist camps by early November, a minister said on Thursday, more than two years after a peace deal ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 14 (UPI) -- Nepalese health experts were trying to contain a diarrhea epidemic in the western region, where more than 100 have already died.
Nepal will this week begin discharging more than 4,000 child soldiers and other disqualified fighters from UN-monitored camps housing former Maoist guerrillas, the government said Thursday.
The World Bank said Thursday it will not fund payments to former Maoist fighters in Nepal, reversing an earlier decision following a review of its activities in the country.
Nepalese police on Tuesday arrested 25 Tibetan exiles as they staged an anti-China demonstration outside the United Nations office in Kathmandu, an AFP reporter witnessed.
When Frenchman Francois Driard decided to settle in Nepal after a decade-long love affair with the Himalayan nation, just one thing was missing -- good cheese. So the 31-year-old former business writer decided to make his own.
Intranet Dashboard (iD) has scored another major corporate client, lassoing Outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu.
Nepal's new government said Monday it would provide almost 1,300 dollars to inter-caste couples when they marry to discourage discrimination against the lowest Dalit caste.
"Unmistaken Child" is an extraordinary, sometimes magical documentary about the search for a reincarnation of a Buddhist master in Nepal.
Currently, there are 18 “In Our Village” books that come from eight countries, including Japan, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Estonia and the United States. "In Our Village: Albion Elementary" has just joined the list.
Currently, there are 18 “In Our Village” books that come from eight countries, including Japan, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Estonia and the United States.
The United Nations 'Roadmap to End Global Hunger' seeks to devote multinational resources to alleviating hunger via short, mid range and long term initiatives focused on achieving the ‘forgotten’ Millennium Development Goals of halving global hunger by 2015.
The economy is dismal. Fashion is in flux. What better time to start a line?
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