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Migrants dying in Saudi FIFA worksites
Lethal working conditions in Saudi Arabia for workers, some on World Cup construction sites
'Die first, get paid later'
Human Rights Watch exposes workers' ill-treatment ahead of Saudi FIFA World Cup 2034 bid
"The first migrant worker from my village"
Before mobile phones, Nepali migrants sent cassette tapes back and forth to communicate
Turning the desert green
Nepali farmhand in Saudi Arabia talks about the decade he has spend growing vegetables and tending goats
Saving to save my sister
This is the 16th instalment of Diaspora Diaries, a regular series in Nepali Times with stories of Nepalis living and working abroad. I grew up…
Diaspora Diaries 3
As a truck driver in Saudi Arabia, I am always on the move. That’s how it has been since 2011.Jeddah is almost 1,500km from Jubail, where I…
Rohit, Amit and Dhana
Rohit is from Bihar and drives an auto rickshaw in Mumbai. Life has been a struggle ever since he lost his parents in a car crash. Like many…
Job-seekers now also jab-seekers
Migrant workers, including Nepalis, in Kuwait after being vaccinated. A Nepali worker gets his jab (right). Source: Ram Bahadur BasnetIn…
"Nepalis have strong work ethics and honesty"
Nepal’s new budget last week pushes Nepal’s missions overseas to ensure the welfare of the country’s migrant workers during the Covid-19…
Saudi labour reforms to benefit Nepalis
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development holds LRI workshops with embassies including Nepal’s. Source:…
Nepali in Saudi Arabia rescued after 12 years
Twelve years after she left Nepal, and after a dramatic rescue from the home of her abusive Saudi employer, Lilamaya Dhimal (pictured above)…
Nepali in Saudi Arabia rescued after 12 years
Twelve years after she left Nepal, and after a dramatic rescue from the home of her abusive Saudi employer, Lilamaya Dhimal (pictured above)…
In the minds of Nepal’s migrant workers
Illustration: SAMBHRANT BISTAThere was a collective, albeit cautious, sigh of relief in Nepal when overseas remittances defied prediction and…
The theory and practice of zero-cost migration
Nepali Times Archives/Om Astha RaiNepal has set a positive image in the region for adopting a ‘employer pays’ principle that removes the cost…
Nepali workers stuck in no-man's land
More than 43,000 overseas migrant workers have returned to Nepal during the Coronavirus pandemic out of 125,000 who registered to be ‘rescued,’…
Nepalis in Saudi Arabia stage protest
Stranded Nepali workers who have been unemployed since March, staging a protest in a labour camp demanding to be repatriated home.Hundreds of…
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…
Crossborder virus and Nepali migrant workers
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
US-Iran war could wreck Nepal economy
US airstrike early Friday morning killed Inranian Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani when the missile hit the vehicle outside Bagdad airport. Photo: IRAQI…
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…
Paying an arm and a leg
https://youtu.be/M2XedSLYl-gHari Pun, 31, was working on the scaffolding of a building in the Malaysian city of Penang last year. He was wearing…