Lust for luxury

Published On: November 28, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Chiranjibi Paudyal

Lust for luxury

How do we explain President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s craving for luxury? Is this her obsession with power? Has she started to think of herself in terms of former kings and queens?

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China’s four traps

Published On: November 28, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng

China’s four traps

Chinese leaders earn their legitimacy not by winning the most votes, but by delivering results

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Fury against media

Published On: November 27, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Bhanu Bhakta Acharya

Fury against media

Instead of reviewing its own faulty policies and mending their ways, the government ministers are becoming more and more intolerant to media and public criticism

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Inflation without cause

Published On: November 27, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Ajaya Kusum Adhikari

Inflation without cause

In the past two decades, food price has blazed through the roof to unimaginable heights and yet the government has done nothing to pull it down

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Lost lessons of World War I

Published On: November 27, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Dominique Moisi

Lost lessons of World War I

The risk today is that generations that have not known war will reproduce the chain of events that lead to it

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Geopolitics of religion

Published On: November 26, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal

Geopolitics of religion

The risk of proselytizing Christians is perhaps a ruse to cover secularist versus Hindutva geopolitical contestations between Beijing and New Delhi

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Resolving US-China conflict

Published On: November 26, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Stephen S Roach

Resolving US-China conflict

China saves too much and the US saves too little. These disparities give rise to multilateral trade imbalances that cannot be resolved by bilateral efforts

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Movement against rape

Published On: November 26, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Pratap Sharma

Movement against rape

When rapes happen, it is not the abuser who is punished, rather victims are blamed, and they may even be ostracized

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Memorializing history

Published On: November 25, 2018 02:00 AM NPT By: Mahabir Paudyal

Memorializing history

Nepal’s struggle to safeguard independence and march to democracy and federal republic make for hundreds of stories to be told, recorded, filmed and visualized

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Together against gender violence

Published On: November 25, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Together against gender violence

Laws must recognize that sexual harassment is a form of discrimination against women and a human rights violation

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