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Nepal seeks US help to access global value chains
2016-06-20 15:05:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The second meeting between the US and Nepal under the bilateral trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) between the two countries has discussed new ways to expand trade and economic ties - including a request from Nepal for help to access the US market.
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Nepal drains dangerous Everest lake
2016-06-02 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Nepal's army has started work to drain rising waters in a lake near Everest at nearly 5,000m (16,400ft). Scientists say that is vital to partially drain Lake Imja to stop it from bursting its banks with potentially devastating consequences. Imja is one of thousands of lakes in the Himalayas formed by the melting of glaciers. But last year's earthquake may further have destabilised it. It is the highest drainage project of its kind, the military says. The altitude at which the work is...
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Pokhara Airport: a story of strategic priority set in the mountains of Nepal
2016-05-26 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Forty years after the idea was born, a soft loan from China has seen the Pokhara international airport finally break ground. As well as strengthening the Nepalese economy and the local tourism trade, the project says a lot about the changing nature o
Homeless Nepal quake survivors fear climate shocks
2016-04-25 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal a year ago, 25-year-old Yama Tamang lost his farm, where he used to grow maize. To support his wife and their three children, he now makes bamboo baskets in the Daamgade temporary camp in Dhading district, 90 km (56 miles) from the capital, Kathmandu. The baskets are used on construction sites for carrying materials like stones and cement. Daamgade, one of seven camps set up in Dhading, shelters 131 families, most of whom also make baskets for a...
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Nepal: Ecosystem Conservation Gives Hope to a Vulnerable Community
2016-04-25 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: 42 year-old Saraswati Subedi still remembers the night she almost died in a flash flood. "I heard the cries of my neighbours and ran out of the room with my two children. There was water all around and I thought we were going to die, so I started to pray," says the mother of the three in Karki Tahara - a village by the river Harpan Khola in Nepal's Kaski district. Subedi was lucky that night: she managed to waddle through the muddy water and reach a hill at the back of her village. But, at least...
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