Nepali Times

The reason the death toll in this years annual encephalitis epidemic is not higher has nothing to do with preventive measures by public health authorities.

Trade is essential for Nepals survival. But Nepal must do more than survive, it needs to prosper.And to prosper quickly there is really no other way than to let trade flourish freely.

Dogmandu

A hundred years after Ekai Kawaguchi (left) travelled across Nepal and Tibet looking for the Buddha s original teachings,a Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita (above)who retraced his footsteps is back in Nepal to see how development is faring under democracy.