Revealed: the intermediaries and companies behind Nepal Airlines US$ 216m Airbus purchase
A new investigation by CIJ Nepal and Finance Uncovered can today reveal the key individuals and opaque offshore structures behind...
Rolpa: The struggle to save children
Poverty and lack of access to health institutions have led many residents of Rolpa to lose their newborns even as...
Thousands of bighas of land in Dang appropriated illegally
Almost 19,000 bighas of land belonging to individuals, institutions and the government remain appropriated illegally. Having begun during the Maoist...
The dark side of remittance
The money sent by millions of Nepalis in foreign employment helps their families and also the country’s economy. But there’s...
Jajarkot’s ‘comrade village’ is mired in poverty, deprivation and discrimination
Former Maoist combatants waged the 10-year insurgency against ‘feudal’ creditors. Now the same creditors are evicting them from their own...
Gang extorts millions by adding 'fake schedule' to report on Bhutanese refugees
- Names of 875 Nepalis were added to the report, which is yet to be made public - Rs 1-5...
Deserted hills, crowded plains
As living in the hills becomes more difficult, people are fleeing in droves abandoning their villages. As a result, while...
Hope and despair in Suntala Superzone
Spoilage loss inhibits plan to buttress value chain of mandarin oranges in Syangja.
Cyber crime
100 Nepalis held hostage by cyber crime gangs in Myanmar
Several young people from various countries, including Nepal, have reportedly been abducted in Myanmar's ethnic states under rebel control. These...
Ministry distributing donations to community hospitals going against its own directive
While public hospitals are reeling under lack of human and economic resources, the government is donating large amounts of funds...
Bhutan
New list of political prisoners expected to set off discussion on Bhutan’s human rights record
Many Bhutanese refugees have been rehabilitated to third countries but they have not heard from their children languishing in jails....
Monkey terror leaves a settlement in ruin
In Baitadi, monkey menace has forced hundreds to migrate to Tarai and India while it has left hundreds of ropanis...
Decades since its conception, Pokhara bus park project makes no headway
The Pokhara bus park project, conceived 47 years ago, remains in limbo, with its land embezzled and captured by squatters.
How Nepal’s cooperative are leaving customers high and dry
As the government fails in protecting people’s properties and returning embezzled money, billions of rupees deposited by hundreds of thousands...
Domestic sexual violence: Laws not enough to ensure justice
Many countries around the world don’t have laws that criminalise marital rape, but Nepal has already enacted one, classifying forced...
Lawmakers splurge in the name of controversial Constituency Development Fund
Even as the very significance of the Constituency Development Fund is being questioned, lawmakers continue to spend money in the...
Local governments compete to turn agricultural lands into residential zones
Experts warn an agricultural crisis looms large owing to haphazard plotting of arable land.
The politics and lucrative business of Kathmandu’s waste
Why has Kathmandu's garbage issue not been resolved? A look at the politics of trash and the billions of dollars...