Month: July 2022

The abrupt, two-day visit of US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu to Nepal that started on Thursday largely aims to push for the controversial US-sponsored State Partnership Program (SPP) military pact, a recent political hot potato in Kathmandu, said Nepalese sources and observers. […]

The deepening banking crisis in China could further deal a blow to Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has already run into troubled waters since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic. China’s lenders and their financial health are now in question after several small banks in the […]

Kathmandu: Nepal Police on Monday raided two call centres operated illegally by Chinese nationals in Kathmandu. Nepal Police officer Bharat Bohora said they have confiscated documents and laptops and arrested one Chinese national and 20 others during the operation. The Chinese national had rented a house in Kathmandu to operate the […]

A delegation of Rastriya Ekata Abhiyan, led by its President Binay Yadav, handed over the memo to the Minister on Tuesday in Kathmandu. A civic group in Nepal has submitted a memorandum to Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Shashi Shrestha, demanding to claim country’s territory occupied by […]

KATHMANDU : Nepal and China have agreed to conduct a joint monitoring of borders as Nepal raised border of dispute in some parts of Nepal-China borders. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), border affairs officials of the two countries have agreed to carry out joint monitoring of border […]

Its course will bring it close to several disputed areas that have seen recent tensions, China is planning to build another highway through Aksai Chin, running along the India border and connecting Xinjiang with Tibet, according to a newly released highway construction plan. The G695 national expressway will be only […]

Kathmandu : The Rastriya Ekata Abhiyan (REA) has submitted a memorandum to Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Shashi Shrestha, urging the government to claim back Nepali territory occupied by China. The REA, in the past, had demonstrated against Chinese encroachment on Nepali territory, and China’s overt interference in […]

Kathmandu: In order to resolve the border dispute and sign a new boundary protocol, Nepal and China have agreed to activate bilateral mechanisms. During a virtual consultation meeting on border affairs held on Thursday, both sides agreed to activate the boundary mechanism first agreed in 1963 while signing the first […]

Kathmandu [Nepal]: US nominee for Ambassador to Nepal, Dean R Thompson, has criticized China for its disinformation campaign on the USD 500 million American grant in the run-up to its ratification by Nepal’s Parliament in February, media reports said. In his opening statement before the Foreign Relations Committee of the […]

KATHMANDU: China has rejected the claim of the US Ambassador Nominee Dean R. Thomson that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact was ratified by Nepal in the face of China’s ‘disinformation campaign’.  A Spokesperson at the Embassy of China in Kathmandu on Friday said that the remarks of Ambassador-nominee Thompson […]