In The News
- Nepal rebels attack bus, killing six soldiers, two civilians Malaysia Star, Malaysia The attack came several days after rebel leaders announced a policy of not attacking civilian vehicles or targets. ..... There was no immediate rebel comment on the latest attack.
- Nepal king's deputy named in bank scam Hindustan Times, India ..... a scam in which money was taken from a state-owned bank as loan but not paid back...... Giri, a hardliner who favours a military solution to Nepal's Maoist insurgency, had gone into self-imposed political exile nearly 19 years ago...... Giri's personal assistant had called up the bank to check if the blacklisted chairman was the same person as the minister...... After the bank confirmed it, Giri himself called up the bank the next day and said he had no knowledge about Himalaya Plastic and any documents naming him were fakes ..... the minister denied any knowledge or involvement.
- Nepal to push for UN reforms in Doha: official Xinhua, China
- RIGHTS-NEPAL: Conflict Pushes More Kids to Work Inter Press Service (subscription), World his father, who was killed by Maoist insurgents during the Tihar festival last November for fleeing a rebel work camp after a month's forced labour ..... his mother, who left their family to marry another man) ..... he cannot go back to his village for he is a hunted boy. ..... After seeing his father stabbed and killed by cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Dipak hurled a stone during a Maoist meeting a few weeks later ...... Girls fare worse than boys, and are more prone to sexual exploitation ..... they were forced to leave their villages due to threats from Maoists. Today they work in restaurants and carpet factories, among others, facing hardships that range from low wages to sexual abuse...... end up in Nepal's urban areas, either as domestic help, 'khalasi' like Dipak or child labourers in carpet factories, stone quarries or brick kilns........ Some children are fleeing the Maoists ranks, and so are hunted by both the security forces and the insurgents........ 32,000 Nepali children are currently working in 1,600 stone quarries ..... more than 10,000 children work in stone quarries, coal, sand, and red soil mines in Nepal, the majority of them aged 11 to 13. Most are young girls....... conflict has led to an increase in child domestic workers ..... the number of child labourers in Nepal, ages 5-14 now stands at 2.6 million ....
- 'Willful defaulters serious threat to economy'
Kathmandu Post - Nepal’s Vice-chairman of Council of Minister Among Wilful ... United We Blog, Nepal
- Vice-Chairman Giri in blacklist
Kantipur Online - Dr Giri in CIB blacklist
Kathmandu Post - Maoists Lynch Two Civilians NepalNews.com a group of Maoists has brutally killed two civilians at Balahi area in the southern district of Siraha. Bisundev Mahato, a resident of Balahi village and Dev Nath Yadav of Fulkahapatti, who were working at a road project as labourers, were killed after being abducted by a group of armed rebels. Their mutilated bodies were found at Kabilas area
- KP Bhattarai For House Reinstatement NepalNews.com .....said “he wished an immediate end to the King’s arbitrary regime” ..... he said jokingly, “If the House is restored, I will also come to the House.”
- UML Gen Sec Invites Maoists For Dialogue NepalNews.com .... called upon the Maoists for dialogue and “encourage the parties” in their movement for absolute democracy..... “We are ready to sit for dialogue with the Maoists so as to address the issue of constituent assembly that they have raised” ......the measures the Maoists have adopted - murder, violence and abduction- in the name of people’s war have rather been strong tools against democracy. “Due to the increasing Maoist violence, the autocrat King has the pretext to rule in the name of providing security”
- RPP Dissidents Announce Date For General Convention NepalNews.com Over 527 general convention members including 9 central working committee leaders registered a motion at the party headquarters on June 9 (yesterday) to call the general convention of the party within a month...... The RPP dissidents have been reportedly seeking for the party’s backing to the Royal Proclamation of February 1. In the contrary, the RPP central committee had called for immediate reactivation of the constitution, restoration of the democratic processes and press freedom in the country.
- Maoist Army, Western Division, Statement
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