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It’s decision time
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThere is intense international diplomatic pressure for and against a $500 million American project, as Nepal’s main…
High tension in Nepal
Photo: RSS The scheduled House session this week was once again postponed with Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the Maoists seemingly reneging on a deal…
The deal-breaker
The date for local elections is now set in stone: 13 May to be held at once all over the country. But the path to voting booths is a political…
US Embassy hosts Democracy Summit
PHOTO: US Embassy NepalThe US Embassy in Nepal hosted a Summit for Democracy on the eve of a Summit to be convened by President Joe Biden on…
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…
To vax or not to vax
In Nepal or the US, having an option to vaccinate or not is a matter of privilege
Swapping ambassadors midway
In the days of the absolute monarchy, every government appointment, promotion in the civil service, and ambassadorship had to be approved by the…
Missing links in Nepal’s MCC debate
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact was signed in September 2017 between the US aid agency and the government of Nepal promising…
US returns another antiquity to Nepal
Nepal Embassy in Washington receives the 10th century Uma Maheswar statue from Denver Museum on Monday. The figure was stolen from Patan…
Challenge of the millennium
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESThe most tangible collateral damage of Nepal’s chronic political instability is going to be the effort…
Global solidarity needs intensive care in pandemic battle
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe world is at a tipping point in the battle to contain the spread of Covid-19. Countries across Asia are struggling to…
Vacillating on vaccines
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the…
The promise of an American Dream
Photo: PRITI THAPAWith the inauguration of President Biden on 20 January 2021, many people were excited to see what a new historically diverse…
A Tibetan Mastiff pup who dares to dream
Lo Khyi now lives in Haymarket, Virginia in the US (right) with the DeLisi family, on the other side of the Planet from his birthplace in a…
A Tibetan Mastiff pup who dares to dream
Lo Khyi now lives in Haymarket, Virginia in the US (right) with the DeLisi family, on the other side of the Planet from his birthplace in a…
A Biden presidency, climate and the Himalaya
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…
Good man and woman won
Outside my window this Saturday morning, the Seattle sky is a typical November grey. But it is such a momentous day of brightness in hope. For…
(Un)United States of America
Many precincts that have the highest proportion of Covid-19 cases also voted for Trump.America’s turmoil over the past four years and this messy…
Grass is greener in Nepal
Nearly 50 years after American government pressure forced Nepal to outlaw the cultivation and consumption of cannabis, the Himalayan country is…
The long journey back to Nepal
Social distancing upon embarking at Kathmandu Airport.After the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, it was not immediately apparent that the…
‘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…
COVID-19 and the global power balance
We have long speculated on the moment when the shift of global leadership from the United States to China would take place. From Washington to…
Pompeo accuses WHO of "failing in basic duty"
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has defended President Donald Trump withholding funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) saying the UN…
Being zen about Zoom
In my back yard is an aging apple tree. Moss cloaked and bare, unlikely again to bear its seasonal crop of the green succulents. The last time…