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‘Budget focused on giving impetus to economy’
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ECONOMY, Interview
OBOR important for connectivity, integration: AIIB chief
OBOR important for connectivity, integration: AIIB chief
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) started its operation as a new multilateral financial institution on January 16 last year. Its president Jin Liqun is in Kathmandu to attend Nepal Investment Summit as a keynote speaker. Sagar Ghimire of Republica talked to Liqun on the sidelines of th...
Mar 03, 2017
Interview
KP Oli was an architect of two Tarai-province model
KP Oli was an architect of two Tarai-province model
Veteran Nepali Congress leader Farmullah Mansoor, who was elected into the parliament from Bara district in 2013, is among the most vocal Madheshi leaders in the party. Mansoor was a key person behind the first amendment of the constitution in January, 2016. What does he make of the second constitut...
Mar 02, 2017
Interview
There has been no fundamental shift in India’s position after the blockade
There has been no fundamental shift in India’s position afte...
CPN (Maoist Center) leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha has been closely involved in inter-party negotiations surrounding the announcement of local elections on Monday. He also visited India last week and met a range of actors, including top Indian government officials. He reportedly informed them on the i...
Feb 23, 2017
ECONOMY, Interview
We want to be among top five smartphone brands in Nepal
We want to be among top five smartphone brands in Nepal
Coolpad, a Chinese telecommunications company, entered the Nepali market on Monday. The company has been manufacturing telecommunication devices for the past 24 years. Coolpad has already been already launched in North America, South East Asia, South Asia and Europe. Ashim Neupane of Republica talke...
Feb 14, 2017
POLITICS, Interview
“Women representation in Nepal's parliament is an example for others”
“Women representation in Nepal's parliament is an example fo...
Moushira Mahmoud Khattab, Ph.D, is Egypt's former Minister for Family & Population, the country's former ambassador to South Africa, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and has also worked for various diplomatic missions. She visited Nepal recently and held meetings with President Bidya Devi Bhandari, m...
Feb 11, 2017
Interview
Modi often seems to forget that Nepal is a sovereign country
Modi often seems to forget that Nepal is a sovereign country
Mani Shankar Aiyar was among the rare Indian politicians who had consistently
spoken against India’s highhandedness during the five months of border blockade. The former cabinet minister in Manmohan Singh government has since been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s neighborhood polic...
Feb 09, 2017
ECONOMY, Interview
Entry of corrupt money into the hands of bad elements is a serious challenge
Entry of corrupt money into the hands of bad elements is a s...
Aniruddha Chatterjee, regional director of Dow Jones was recently in Kathmandu to attend a conference to discuss about solutions to mitigate money laundering and white-collar crimes. Sagar Ghimire of Republica caught up Chatterjee on the sidelines of the conference to discuss about the risks and vul...
Feb 08, 2017
Interview
‘Air pollution killing double of what tobacco kills in Kathmandu’
‘Air pollution killing double of what tobacco kills in Kathm...
A medical doctor and epidemiologist (MD-PhD) by training, Dr Carlos Dora, has a distinguished career in public health and environmental issues. At the World Health Organization (WHO), he is the coordinator of the unit ‘Interventions for Healthy Environments’ which is a part of the Department of Publ...
Feb 06, 2017
Interview
Political parties are trying to sabotage Election Commission
Political parties are trying to sabotage Election Commission
Neel Kantha Uprety, the Chief Election Commissioner during the second Constituent Assembly elections in 2013, believes it is possible to hold local elections before monsoon and the two
remaining elections by January, 2018. But how? And how do we make sense of recent proposed electoral reforms? Upr...
Feb 05, 2017
Interview
'Locals should have say in monuments reconstruction'
'Locals should have say in monuments reconstruction'
Jared M Koller is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. Prior to joining PhD program, Koller served as a researcher for the Asian Cultural History Program, which is a part of the Smithsonian Institution's Anthropology Department in Washington DC. US Embassy brought K...
Jan 30, 2017