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  • A non-profit in Nepal is recruiting poachers and traffickers to turn them into protectors of the country’s some 1,000 red pandas
  • Poaching and illegal trade are a threat to red pandas, but other risks include habitat loss from deforestation and climate change
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Read on for the Nepali businessman’s thoughts about giving back to society – and his dream of creating ‘small universes under a big universe’ for his company.

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Nepali fighters were lured by promises of higher pay and a better life in Russia, but some were tricked into the war zone by unscrupulous agents.

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Nepal’s twin flood disasters in 2021 are examples of the havoc that climate change will increasingly wreak and highlight the need for early warning systems.

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The ‘worrying’ situation is straining the healthcare system in Nepal, which is among 55 countries on a WHO list of nations with a severe shortage of healthcare workers.

As Asia’s richest families prepare to hand down US$2.5 trillion in wealth by 2030, an intergenerational divide emerges over how and where the money should be spent.

Shambala, the first Nepalese film selected for the Berlin Film Festival’s main competition, is an unhurried masterpiece about a Nepalese woman searching for her husband in the Himalayas.

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Whether in Nepal or Hong Kong, families in poverty sacrifice girls’ education, says Jennifer Lin, director of Ani Choying Drolma: Mission Impossible, about Nepali nun who founded a school for poor girls.

In the past decade, many independent filmmakers in Nepal have tried to capture stories from non-urban settings, piquing the interests of both local and foreign audiences and setting them apart from commercial Hindi films.

A wave of young Hindu nationalist singers are releasing songs that ‘spew hatred against Muslims’ and other minorities in an emerging genre known as Hindutva pop.

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A writer bites off more than he can chew on a motorcycle tour through China’s Tibet autonomous region, riding to heights of over 5,000 metres and shivering through temperatures well below zero.

More Nepali women are leaving the country for work, primarily in domestic care. But women who leave for overseas work via unlicensed means are more vulnerable to exploitation by illegal recruiters and abusive employers.

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More women looking to trek in Nepal are hiring female guides and using women-led companies, motivated in part by the chance to help empower Nepali women and promote equality.

A member of the investigative panel said an aerodynamic stall occurred after the pilots mistakenly cut power on the Yeti Airlines flight. All 72 people aboard were killed.

Despite living thousands of miles away from countries like India and Nepal where the system of hereditary social hierarchy is deeply ingrained, many ‘lower caste’ South Asians say they still can’t escape it.

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From belacan shrimp paste of Malaysia and Bangladeshi biryani to chicken chillies in Nepal or Sri Lankan fish curry, Asians have a dependence on Indian supplies of onions to lend spice to their favourite dishes.

Kathmandu has urged Moscow to send any Nepali mercenaries still fighting in the Russian army back home. It did not specify where, how or when the six were killed.

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