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Articles tagged with #nepali migrant workers
Overseas Nepali vote bank
Nepalis overseas may be disenfranchised, but they are engaged
With love from Korea
A Korean employer helping returnee Nepalis set up their businesses and in turn create jobs for others
Song of work and freedom
Nepali migrant worker turns his childhood passion for music into a profession in Dubai
Bringing Korea’s prosperity to Nepal
In small ways, many migrant workers are returning with skills to start businesses back home
Now, what?
A returning migrant worker finds that starting a business and creating jobs in Nepal has its rewards
Overseas job-seeker now creates jobs in Nepal
A migrant worker who rose from nothing to be a successful entrepreneur back home in Nepal
Qatari leader in Nepal reminded of workers’ rights
Rights group urges Qatari emir to go beyond pleasantries and guarantee migrant worker rights
Migrant worker teaches others the ropes
His foreign trainees were surprised he was from a landlocked country that has no oil rigs
Nepali women flee abuse for overseas work
Foreign employment gives survivors of domestic violence an escape route to independence and dignity
Too hot to work
The COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai spotlights working conditions for Nepali migrant workers
From Saudi to Sauji
After 30 years working for other people in the Gulf, Nepali man is his own boss
The return of a master baker
The struggle and success of a migrant worker who has returned to Nepal to start a thriving bakery
Painting a bright future
I left for Bahrain to work as a caregiver in 2007, and it was only five years later that I revisited my passion for art. Ever since I was a…
Diaspora Diaries 2
Hom Nath Giri at his desk in a company in Kuwait City. PHOTO: Hom Nath GiriI am not sure where to start telling you the story of the journey of…
Appeal for cancer care for Nepali worker
Min Dai in B P Koirala Cancer Hospital in Bharatpur before the surgery to remove his tumour. Min Dai found it difficult to support his wife, two…
Nepali workers queue up for QR codes
All photos: UPASANA KHADKAThousands of Nepal’s outbound workers have been waiting in packed queues for hours, sometimes days, in the capital to…
India’s Covid catastrophe hits Nepalis hard
Nepali family living in Goa for the past 10 years: Amar Tiruva and his wife Radha with their daughter, Antara. Radha died this week, and Amar is…
FIFA a chance to improve welfare of Nepali workers in Qatar
In 1998, a New York Times report about a 10-year old from Sialkot in Pakistan, who stitched footballs with her mother for a pittance, led to an…
Europe now favoured destination for Nepalis
Despite pandemic, workers lured by better earnings, benefits and chance at citizenship
Chaos as Nepal bans repatriation flights
Nepali workers in Dubai after learning of the last minute cancellation of their flight to Kathmandu early Tuesday morning. Photo: NRNA…
Nepalis stranded in the Maldives
The usually bustling beaches of the resorts in the Maldives wear a deserted look.Ninety percent of Nepal’s overseas contract workers are in West…
Far from home during a pandemic
About 2,000 Nepalis are among foreign workers quarantined in a camp between streets 1-32 of the Industrial Area near Doha that has been closed…
Crossborder virus and Nepali migrant workers
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
Photo: MINISTRY OF LABOUR EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITYPolitics is dirty. The manpower business is dirtier. Mixing the two can mean the…