15 percent of Nepal's population do not eat an adequate diet, says WFP Nepal chief Robert Kasca is the WFP Nepal Representative and Country Director. Robert has over 20 years of operational and leadership experience with WFP, the United Nations agency dedicated to fighting hunger and the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Nepal 14 Jan, 2024
A new immigration policy that avoids a dangerous journey is working. But border crossings continue “This process facilitates and reduces time” for refugees, said Luiz Fernando Godinho Santos, a UNHCR spokesman for the Americas. World 07 Jan, 2024
EDITORIAL: Social protection There are many economists who think investing in social protection schemes by the government is a waste of resources, money that could have been put in productive areas that give a boost to the economy and help generate jobs. Opinion 20 May, 2022
Nepal includes typhoid vax into routine immunisation With the support of Gavi (the Vaccine Alliance), World Health Organisation, UNICEF, and other partners, the Government of Nepal today launched a new vaccine campaign introducing the Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) into the routine immunisation programme across the country. Nepal 08 Apr, 2022
More than 125,000 Myanmar teachers suspended for opposing coup More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanmar Teachers' Federation said. World 23 May, 2021
Jajarkot children still out of schools Jajarkot, January 27 Children of four settlements in Barekot Rural Municipality in Jajarkot have no access to school. Children here are unable to go to schools which are far from the villages. School-age children from Rimdara, Khalaka Khutte,... Travel 28 Jan, 2019
100pc children admitted to schools in Panchthar Panchthar, September 7 Panchthar has become the first district to make student enrolment campaign fully successful in the country. All children between the ages of five and 12 years in the district have been admitted to schools. The second... Travel 08 Sep, 2018
From robots to girl power, getting Cameroon's women into work YAOUNDE: With a flash of green light, a robot sputters and whizzes across the room, obeying the remote control commands 15-year-old Xaviera Nguefo and her team send its way. It is a scene that would not look out of place in a futuristic sci-fi... Women 30 Jul, 2018
EDITORIAL: Future at stake Dismal progress in reconstruction of quake-damaged schools is a telling sign of misplaced priorities of the government It has been more than three years since the country witnessed one of the biggest natural disasters – the earthquake of April 25,... 20 Jun, 2018
As crucial cash from the Gulf dries up, south Indian families fret VENNIYUR: Every evening, three generations of worried Angatt family women meet outside a half-built bungalow in this village in India's southern Kerala state. Nearly six months after the house's foundation was laid and its two floors raised,... Travel 27 Mar, 2018
Export and trade deficit Apropos of the news story “Trade deficit widens to Rs. 310 billion” (THT, December 24, Page 13), we can perhaps use the trade formula with the US to turn the table on this massive deficit with our two giant neighbours. At a symposium to... 25 Dec, 2017
Despite pledges, 1 million Syrian refugees are out of school BEIRUT: Schools in the Middle East are facing major budget shortfalls ahead of the new academic year, leaving some 1 million Syrian refugee children out of school, according to a report published by Their World, an international children's... Women 03 Aug, 2016
