Tag: #United States
Articles tagged with #United States
The spheres-of-influence illusion
The US, China, and Russia are abandoning international law for power politics, a shift toward rival blocs that has historically breed conflict over stability.
Turning point in US-India relations
In the face of Donald Trump's capriciousness, India will not panic, but it might pivot
Nepal in the world, the world in Nepal
Essays document political and socio-cultural evolution amid geopolitcal upheavals in the 1950s
Cheated out of the American Dream
Did Nepali doctors crib in their US medical exam?
Nepal's Maoist leader visits China
Prime Minister Dahal's visit to Beijing comes at a time when Nepal is the most fragile and fungible it has ever been
MCC risks split in Nepal’s ruling coalition
A much-delayed half-billion dollar US government project to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure threatens to split Nepal’s governing coalition,…
China lobbying against MCC
A $500 million American grant to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure appears at first glance to be delayed because of domestic politics. But the real…
Climate change drowns the American dream
Ang Gelu Lama, 50 and his two-year-old son Lobsang who drowned in their basement apartment on 1 September in New York City. Photos: FACEBOOKThe…
The cost of no MCC
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Sino-American rift impacts climate action
Geopolitical and economic rivalry between China and the United States, the world’s two largest carbon emitters, distracted delegates at the…
Afghanistan abandoned
Aunohita Mojumdar on right talking to farmers in a field in the village of Haibat Khel in Parwan province in 2008. Photo: ANNE…
Johnson & Johnson in Nepal
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines by the United States under the global COVAX facility has arrived in…
Power politics delays MCC in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Power politics delays MCC in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Why Nepal must legalise cannabis
Nearly 50 years after the United States government forced Nepal to ban the cultivation and use of cannabis, MP Sher Bahadur Tamang is on a…
Preparing for the clash of empires
China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe with Prime Minister Oli on Sunday in Baluwatar. Photo: RAJAN KAFLENepal has become one of the locations in…
Race against time
The great Nepali linguist वल्लभ मणि दाहाल Ballabh Maṇi Dāhāl was the driving force behind the monumental dictionary नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश Nepālī…
Global glove makers compensate Nepali workers
As the COVID-19 pandemic increases demand for latex gloves worldwide, Malaysian glove makers accused of exploitation of migrant workers,…
US visa rule leaves Nepali students in a lurch
The sudden announcement by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday that international students will not be issued visas if…
‘Once upon a time there was an America…’
In the last few months we have witnessed the continued unraveling of the United States. Many might attribute the dismantling of what once was…
Love's victory over racial hatred
Mildred and Richard Loving were sentenced to jail for their inter-ethnic marriage. They took the case to the Supreme Court, and won on 12 June,…
Replicating Nepal’s stolen gods
It is difficult to get western museums to return trafficked deities, so Nepalis are making copies of the missing statuary
Classified Top Secret
Now that it looks like war is imminent between the United States and Nepal, it is important for our armed forces to be on high alert. There is a…
Family separation, Bhutan-style
A classroom full of Bhutanese refugee children in Beldangi. Many of them have been denied resettlement to be with their families already in the…