The final batch of the nearly 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during Nepal's decade-long civil war have been discharged on Monday to facilitate the country's peace process. - (AHN)

Nepal's government and the U.N. are to provide the former child combatants, including girls, with opportunities for formal schooling

I have some continuing concerns that I thought I should share with you and the rest of Roseburg. There are more than 500,000 child soldiers and that number is growing in many places around the world. They are all under

SYDNEY: Australia on Monday axed 20,000 migrant applications in a major overhaul aimed at clamping down on foreign students gaining permanent residency through courses such as hairdressing and cookery. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the reforms, which follow a sudden

A television executive who owned Nepal's first cable TV company was shot dead in a busy neighbourhood in the capital yesterday.

KYIV, February 7 /UKRINFORM/. Ukrainian mountain-climbers are going to conquer the world's fifth tallest peak Makalu located on the China and Nepal border, its altitude is 8,464 m, the Segodnia newspaper writes, UKRINFORM reports. "It is one of 14 8,000

Kathmandu - Nepalese Vice President Parmananda Jha was reinstated to his post Sunday with a fresh oath of office, ending months of political controversy. Jha was suspended from the post by the country's Supreme Court last year, which ruled his

After festering for 18 months and deepening the rift between the hill and plains people, Nepal's Hindi row Sunday came to an uneasy end with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha re-taking his oath of office and secrecy in his mother

In celebration of the Tibetan Tiger New Year, the Chinese Embassy in Nepal hosted a reception on Saturday in Nepali capital Kathmandu. More than 600 Tibetan compatriots residing in Nepal attended the reception and celebrated the festival with Embassy staff

LONDON - Britain is to cut the number of visas it hands out to foreign students in a bid to stop people breaking the rules by working illegally, officials said Saturday. About 280,000 people came into Britain on student visas

While the ground-breaking meeting of the home ministers of SAARC to be held in Pakistan

Two major Indian companies and a third multinational firm are headed for tough times once again in Nepal with the former Maoist guerrillas asking them to stop work.

Nepal, striving for lasting peace after a decade of insurgency, has two standing armies: a state-funded military and 20,000 Maoist combatants living in United Nations- monitored camps. Divisions over how they should be integrated into one force have the power

Already grappling with severe Maoist violence in several of its own states, India now faces a twin Maoist threat in neighbouring Nepal with a splinter group declaring war on New Delhi.

Military bands from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, France and Britain will participate in India's first ever military music festival here Feb 25 to March 9.

This article attempts to question and answer India’s role in Nepal in the deformation of the Maoist government and afterwards. The basic question is whether this role is consistent with India’s commitment to democratic and spiritual values, and the answer

MotoGP star's Halo helmet sells at auction to help children in Nepal

International Forum on Tiger Preservation Issues will be held in Primorye capital on September 9-12 of the year 2010. VLADIVOSTOK, February 2, vladivostoktimes.com The RF Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology will establish an organization committee on preparation for the

Across the region, an array of tactics for keeping the peaceON THE plane out of Lhasa, I sit next to a Nepali businessman who frequently visits Lhasa to buy shoes. He puts them in containers to be taken by lorry