48 results for Nepal

29 November 2017

With Nepal’s landmark general election heading into the next stage, Hong Kong bureau chief James Chambers explains why Kathmandu’s towering neighbours, China and India, are watching closely.

22 March 2012

The difficulties of being Kurdish in Turkey, why Nepal may end recruiting Ghurka soldiers, and how the Datsun car brand is being revived.

2 October 2011

This week on the Monocle Weekly we discuss the effect the latest plane crash outside Kathmandu will have on Brand Nepal.

29 May 2012

Why Nepal’s leaders are in crisis and we learn why Kiev might be a hotbed of social discord during the upcoming Euro 2012 football tournament.

27 April 2015

We discuss US-Japan defence relations, disaster diplomacy in Nepal and North Cypriot politics. Plus David Dunlap from the ‘New York Times’ on the Ellis Island Museum and a review of the Asian newspapers.

24 February 2016

We try to predict Bashar al-Assad’s next move in the Syria peace plan, get the latest on today’s air crash in Nepal and learn why Icelandic people rarely go by their last names.

28 February 2015

Our round-up of the week's best stories, featuring a celebration of campanology – or bells – a critical look at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, an insight into Nepal’s living Goddess and much more.

14 October 2021

We discuss a new advisory panel that the WHO says marks the final chance to discover the origins of coronavirus. Plus: we get a round-up of the latest urbanism news and countdown the pop charts in Nepal.

29 October 2015

We look to Nepal as it elects its first female president, hear why Zimbabwe’s president Mugabe refuses the Confucius Peace Prize and discover how Domino’s Pizza thinks it has a chance of making it in Italy.

12 May 2015

We're live in Kathmandu as Nepal is hit by another earthquake less than two weeks after the last tremor devastated the region. We also ask if African leaders have done enough to contest president Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for…