FNCCI meet AOTS KATHMANDU: Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) on Friday assured Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) of technical support for the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nepal. A six-member team led by FNCCI president Kush Kumar Joshi is in Japan since Monday to expand private sector cooperation between the two countries. The team also met officials of Japan Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry. — HNS HAN promotes NTY KATHMANDU: A seventy-member HAN team returned to Kathmandu on Friday after the successful completion of Nepal Tourism Year 2011 promotion in Bangkok. The campaign — supported by Nepal Tourism Board, Nepali Embassy Thailand and NRN Thailand — consisted of press meets, Nepal Night, B2B meeting with HAN president Prasiddha Bahadur Panday, NTB CEO Prachanda Man Shrestha and NRN Thailand president Ramesh Hamal. — HNS Nepal, Qatar ASA KATHMANDU: Nepal and Qatar have signed an air services agreement (ASA) on Tuesday. Secretary at the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation Nagendra Prasad Ghimire and chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Qatar Abdullajid Mohammad signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations. As per the agreement signed in Qatar’s capital Doha, designated airlines companies from both countries can operate flights using any kind of aircraft on the basis of competition. The ASA is as per International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). — RSS