Nepal News archive for 31 December 2009
Add paper to your list of decor ideas - Deseret News (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
The scrapbooking craze is spinning off into a different phenomenon if you judge this year’s books by their covers. Decorating with paper — whether it’s hand-dyed lokta harvested from shrubs in Nepal or your standard white copy-machine variety …
From American Dream to nightmare - Boston Herald (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
I f Surendra Dangol’s death just saddens us, he will have died in vain because what it ought to do is enrage us. This 39-year-old native of Nepal was a reminder that “immigrant” still captures the essence of the American Dream. Indeed, in …
Daughter of slain store clerk to attend his funeral - Boston Globe (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
After initially denying the 9-year-old daughter of a slain convenience store clerk a visa to attend his funeral, the US Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal issued the girl a visa today, according to a family friend. “The embassy called the girl’s mother, and …
Daughter Of Slain Clerk Obtains Visa After Capuano Intercedes - WBUR (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
BOSTON — U.S. authorities have agreed to give a traveler’s visa to the 9-year-old daughter of a convenience store clerk who was killed during a robbery in Jamaica Plain over the weekend. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had previously granted visas only …
Family of slain JP clerk denied visa for funeral - WHDH.com (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
BOSTON — The family of a man gunned down inside a Jamaica Plain convenience store is outraged. Relatives said the State Department is refusing to allow the victim’s daughter into the United States for the funeral. On Saturday, Surendra Dangol, 39 …
Best Bets - South Coast Today (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
Converse enjoys immersing herself in a project, such as her recent travels with Himalayan Project to Nepal in April 2008. She inherited a love of sailing from a long heritage of sailors, notably her great-grandmother, Captain Mary P. Converse, who in …
A doomed region - Deccan Herald (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
South Asia has the largest number of poor and the illiterate in the world. Violations of human rights are in thousands. When I longingly look at Europe having one visa, one currency (euro), stronger than dollar, and one parliament to reflect on the …
2009 CHRONOLOGY: Major world events in 2009: Part 2 - Monsters and Critics (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
3 - US airstrike kills 140 civilians in Afghanistan’s Farah province. 3 - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s wife announces her plans to divorce, a decision that comes after a newspaper report of her husband attending the 18th birthday party …
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Beijing to increase aid and trade with Nepal (December 31, 2009) - [read more]
Beijing pledged to bolster aid and trade to Nepal on Wednesday, state media said, one day after Nepal’s prime minister said his government would not tolerate anti-China protests in the Himalayan nation.
It’s already new year in Nepal (December 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Dec 30 While the rest of the world has begun an eager countdown to the new year, which will be ushered in from Thursday midnight, it is already 2010 in the exotic Himalayan land of Nepal.
Accidental refugees from Somalia play waiting game (December 30, 2009) - [read more]
Somali refugee couple Hasan Ali Hasan, centre, and Asha Ali Maow, second left, with their children in their one-room apartment in Kathmandu Youssuf Abdullahi Mohammud was just 16 when he arrived in Nepal in 2007, the victim of a people trafficker who had promised to take him to Europe from his native Somalia.
Three dead in Nepal blast (December 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Three people were killed and two others injured on Monday when a bomb suspected by police to be left-over from Nepal’s civil war went off in the southwest of the country, officials said.
China’s Tibet photography exhibition opens in Nepal (December 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Third China’s Tibet Photography Exhibition was held here on Monday in Nepali capital Kathmandu.
Nepal records first A/H1N1 flu death (December 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal on Sunday confirmed its first death due to A/H1N1 infection. The deceased, 50, whose name has not been disclosed yet, died Sunday morning while undergoing treatment at the Bir Hospital in Kathmandu.
Nepali prime minister visits NW China (December 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal visits the Famen Temple in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Dec.
Nepali shot dead in USA (December 28, 2009) - [read more]
Surendra Dangol, 40, from Sankhu, Kathmandu was killed in a food store in Jamaica Plain where Dangol was an employee.
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Controversial Promotion of the Year: Toran Singh is No. 2 of Nepal Army (December 24, 2009) - [read more]
By Kamal Raj Sigdel and Phanindra Dahal
In a controversial move that has angered many including some western donor countries and agencies, the government today (Thursday) promoted Maj. Gen. Toran Jung Bahadur Singh as Chief of the General Staff, the second-in-command of Nepal Army. The government had put the promotion on hold for six months in [...]
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