Tag: #migrant
Articles tagged with #migrant
Homecoming after nine years
A domestic worker from Jajarkot from her early years of migration to Kuwait to attachments and freedom as she returns to Nepal
From letters to landlines, phones to Facebook
When Kalim Miya in the UAE and Bhumika in Kuwait found themselves stranded abroad after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, they took to social…
Returning to Nepal has its rewards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzDf8n-eSYKarvika Thapa was living the American dream in Boston with a promising career in the Information…
Chinese farmer strikes roots in Nepal
Photos : JOSIE WANGStanding in his field on the outskirts of Pokhara and below the dazzling snows of the Annapurna mountains, Xiang Shaohua…
Why has zero-cost migration not happened?
Recruiters are still taking advantage of the desperation of workers for a better shot at life
Irresistible forces: wage differentials and demographic trends
Photo: OM ASTHA RAIIn many parts of the world the ratio of the working age group to the elderly population is on a decline. By 2050, OECD…
Homestays keep former migrants in Nepal
A guest is welcomed at the Ayodhyapuri homestay cooperative located in the Chitwan National Park buffer zone. Photo : WWFHari Bahadur Pun from…
Moti Bagh
Vidyadutt Sharma, 83, stands in front of his blue-tinted two storey home, looking out into a 360 panorama of the Himalayan mountains. This is…
Karma’s karma
Photo: BIKRAM RAIAs hundreds of thousands of Nepali youngsters leave the country in search of greener pastures, a trickle have started to return…
Migrants abroad left in lurch
Pic: KantipurHom Karki in Kantipur, 29 JulyThe Nepal Government banned labour permits aiming to block women from going abroad as domestic…
Punished in Malaysia, ignored in Nepal
FLASHBACK: Nepal’s Labour Minister Tek Bahadur Gurung met with Malaysian Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (left) in Kuala Lumpur in 2015,…
Reading up on Communism at Nati Bajra’s
Kathmandu readers used to flock to a tiny bookshop to buy books by Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung