Nepal, Malaysia renew three-year deal on migrant worker rights

Kathmandu, Sept. 23 -- The National Human Rights Commission of Nepal (NHRC) and Malaysia's Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) have renewed a three-year agreement to investigate and monitor rights viola... Read More

Fees keep Nepal-Israel farm, care worker deals on hold

Kathmandu, Sept. 19 -- A dispute over recruitment and service fees has stalled two proposed agreements to send Nepali workers to Israel's agricultural and home-based care sectors, despite demand for l... Read More

472 undocumented workers, including Nepalis, detained in Kuala Lumpur raids

Kathmandu, Sept. 15 -- In a sweeping operation on Sunday, Malaysian immigration authorities detained 472 undocumented migrant workers, including eight Nepalis, during a crackdown in Kotaraya of Kuala ... Read More

For some Nepali migrants, even death does not bring them home

Kathmandu, Sept. 12 -- For four months, Tulsi Ramrai has walked the same circuit through Singha Durbar, Nepal's central secretariat in Kathmandu - Foreign Affairs, Labour, Finance, and back again. He ... Read More

Wife says rescued husband has 'a second life' after nine days trapped in Nepal tunnel

Kathmandu, Sept. 4 -- The wife of a man rescued from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal on Friday said her husband had been given "a second life" and thanked the rescuers who risked their lives to save him.... Read More

Rescue teams struggle to reach workers trapped in underground powerhouses

Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- A week after a devastating flash flood swept through northern Nepal, rescue teams still cannot reach workers and employees believed to be trapped inside underground powerhouses a... Read More

Flood rescue enters critical days, anxious families hope missing loved ones are alive

Kathmandu, Sept. 1 -- Mithu Khadka has spent days calling her husband's phone, hoping that this time he might answer. Instead, there has been only silence. The last time she spoke to Kamal Khadka, kno... Read More

'Every second counts': Families await tunnel rescue

Kathmandu, Aug. 30 -- For Sita Pandey, going to the Nepal Electricity Authority headquarters in Ratnapark has become a daily routine since Wednesday. Her husband, Jiblal Adhikari, is believed to be t... Read More

Government to allow NRN joint ventures to issue foreign-currency IPOs

Kathmandu, Aug. 16 -- Nepalis living abroad will soon be able to invest directly in Nepal-based companies through foreign-currency initial public offerings, as the government moves to create a new cha... Read More

Nepal's labour market caught between jobless workers and worker shortages

Kathmandu, Aug. 16 -- After spending 18 years working in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, Nil Bahadur Khadka of Banke returned to Nepal seven months ago hoping to settle back home. Armed wi... Read More

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