Nepalis have never before faced such deprivation and insecurity.

The wooden paddles were replaced with this metal turbine to triple his mill's efficiency.

One year after September 11, tourism hasn't picked up.

It's hard defending democracy when those who want polls aren't nearly as fired up as those who don't.

In Thamel, a Korean couple makes a literary and gastronomic connection between their home country and Nepal.

A new CD-ROM teaches you to ask in Nepali where the beach is.

The stress of incarceration is beginning to tell on BP Koirala in these pages from his diary.

Does our banner yet wave?

What makes the Internet work? Ask Bill Woodcock, one of those who work behind the scenes to make this global brain tick.

... and snow leopards