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Unpacking The Gen Z Global Revolt Against Corruption

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Living On Two Handfuls Of Barley: The Cost Of USAID Cuts In Nepal

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Protests Are Mounting In Nepal Against Cable Car Project On Sacred Himalayan Trail

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American Dream To Nepali Limbo: What Happened When The U.S. Deported Bhutanese Refugees

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The Missing Soldiers Of Nepal, Drafted Into Russia’s War Via TikTok

by Liubov Velychko and Yam Kumari Kandel May 23, 2025May 23, 2025

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In Nepal, Following The Trail To The Mercenaries Sent To Fight For Putin

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Nepal, Where Faith Gets In The Way Of Organ Transplants

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The Nepali Workers Who Left For A Better Life — And Returned With Failing Kidneys

by Sunita Neupane March 12, 2025May 24, 2025

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How Nepal’s “Left-Behind” Children Of Migrants Hold Families Together

by Yam Kumari Kandel September 19, 2023December 2, 2025

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Nepal’s Elephants Threaten The Farmers Who Used To Worship Them

by Mayamitu Neupane June 28, 2023December 2, 2025

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Society immigration

Tibetan Refugees In Nepal: A Different Kind Of Identity Crisis

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Nepal is still a land of contradictions.

In The News women's rights

Ancient Menstrual Quarantines Still Oppress Women In Nepal

by Worldcrunch October 30, 2018May 23, 2025

A soldier of the Nepalese army checks the luggage on board at a checking point in Kathmandu in 2005.

Geopolitics civil war

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Geopolitics nepal

Home Base, A Village Of Sherpas Deep In The Himalayas

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Future environment

Climate Change, Earthquake Spell Double Trouble For Nepalese Farmers

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Quake-Ravaged Nepal Races To Salvage Historic Treasures

by Worldcrunch October 9, 2015May 22, 2025

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In Nepal, Banding Together To Clean Rancid Bagmati River

by Worldcrunch August 8, 2015May 22, 2025

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by Giacomo July 14, 2015May 23, 2025

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by Worldcrunch May 19, 2015May 22, 2025

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Searching The Rubble In Nepal, A Nation On Its Knees

by Worldcrunch April 27, 2015May 22, 2025

Mother and daughter in Patan, Nepal

In Nepal, Women As Second-Class Citizen Takes A Sad New Twist

by Patrick Randall March 30, 2015May 23, 2025

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Society environment

Using Birthday Presents To Save Nepal’s Forests

by Julie Farrar November 6, 2014May 22, 2025

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by Sixtine Lechère August 27, 2014May 24, 2025

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by Julie Farrar July 14, 2014May 22, 2025

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