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Beware of spurious cancer drugs

Kathmandu, June 15 -- Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, leaving cancer patients in more than 100 countries at risk of ineffective treatments and potentially fat... Read More


Saving the Kusunda language from extinction

Kathmandu, June 14 -- The Kusunda are among the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities left in Nepal, and it has only one fluent speaker left of a language that is not related to any other languag... Read More


National insecurity

Kathmandu, June 13 -- Throughout its 260-year history, Nepal has tried to keep an equilibrium between its two giant neighbours. Past rulers have tried to ensure friendly relations with India and China... Read More


Greening Nepal's tourism

Kathmandu, June 13 -- On 21 March, the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement to launch the Sustainable Tourism Project (STP), a $5 million endea... Read More


No freedom after expression

Kathmandu, June 12 -- On World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Reporters without Borders issued a map of the world with the status of press freedom in each country. Most Asian countries had restrictions o... Read More


America no longer prime destination for Nepali students

Kathmandu, June 11 -- Thousands of Nepali students dreaming of an American education have been forced to look elsewhere as the Trump administration's visa restrictions make their future uncertain. Th... Read More


Repatriation for reconciliation

Kathmandu, June 10 -- An international conference on looted cultural objects in Nepal was strategising about how to repatriate sacred icons, when news broke that a 400-year-old jewel studded gilt-copp... Read More


Federalism Express

Kathmandu, June 9 -- This week, all seven of Nepal's provincial governments announced their annual budgets even as debate in the federal parliament over the central budget has been stalled for two wee... Read More


Drugs vs Bugs

Kathmandu, June 8 -- Widespread abuse of antibiotics has led to patients not responding to treatment because bacteria causing infections have developed resistance to the drugs. In 2021 alone, the la... Read More


From deterrence to disarmament

Kathmandu, June 7 -- Marking 80 years since the dawn of the nuclear age, peace advocates, diplomats, educators, and atomic bomb survivors from around the world gathered for the 'Choose Hope' Symposium... Read More