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‘Super-fast’ passport service to be a bane to poor, rural people
Sukumaya Thokar Tamang could have paid Rs 5,000 and obtained a passport from the District Administration Office in Bara, her home district. But she chose to travel from Nijgadh to Kathmandu and pay double the amount because the wait would be much shorter—from six weeks to one.Published on: 22 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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High airfare, seat crunch hit migrant workers
Foreign employment agencies are having a hard time to send migrant workers to major labour destinations amid air seat crunch and increased airfares. And, the problem is likely to continue for at least a month, according to airlines.Published on: 22 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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MoLE delay hinders reforms in foreign employment sector
The government failure to endorse four major directives aimed at regulating the foreign employment sector has put the migrant workers on the receiving end.Published on: 22 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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Nepali kills self in South Korea
A Nepali migrant worker committed suicide near Seoul in South Korea on Tuesday.Published on: 22 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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Women rescued from Indian circus after 17 yrs
Two young women, who were sold to a circus in India at the age of five and seven, reunited with their families after 17 years on Sunday.Published on: 21 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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देश-विदेश : इस्तानबुलबाट हारगुहार
सुरक्षित आप्रवासनमा जोडिएर राष्ट्रिय-अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अनेक खालका गोष्ठी र परामर्श बैठकमा भाग लिइरहेका बेला टर्कीको इस्तानबुलबाट एक साँझ फोन आयो- 'हामी इस्तानबुलमा बन्धक जीवन बिताइरहेका छौं, हाम्रो जीवन बचाइदिनुपर्योट ।'Published on: 21 May 2013 | Kantipur
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About 577 deaths reported in last nine months
Suicide among Nepali migrant workers has increased by 12.96 per cent in the last nine months.Published on: 21 May 2013 | The Himalayan Times
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Harnessing the Remittance Boom
For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move—and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban areas and across international borders is historically unprecedented, and twenty-first-century Asia is its focal point.Published on: 21 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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'Budget should focus on employment generation'
The next budget should focus on employment generation to check the massive migration, increasing productivity and import substitution by creating business-friendly environment, suggested the experts to the central bank during an interaction here.Published on: 21 May 2013 | The Himalayan Times
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अलमलमा स्वरोजगार कार्यक्रम
दुइ महिनासम्म ताकेता गर्दा पनि स्वरोजगार कोषका कार्यक्रम अगाडि बढाउने/नबढाउनेबारे अर्थमन्त्री शंकर कोइरालाबाट समय नपाएपछि अन्योल बढेको छ ।Published on: 19 May 2013 | Kantipur
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चौतारी : एनआरएनका चुनौती
फिफिलिपिन्सको मनिलामा गैरआवासीय नेपाली संघ -एनआरएन) एसिया प्यासिफिक क्षेत्रीय सम्मेलन शनिबार सुरु भएको छ । उक्त सम्मेलनमा मातृभूमिको सामाजिक, आर्थिक रूपान्तरणका लागि आफ्नो भूमिकालाई कसरी प्रभावकारी बनाउने भन्नेबारेमा छलफल भइरहेको छ ।Published on: 19 May 2013 | Kantipur
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साउदी छाड्न ४ दिनमै १३ हजार 'आउटपास'
साउदी अरबले गैरकानुनी हैसियतका कामदारलाई दिएको आममाफी लिएर स्वदेश फिर्न शनिबारसम्म १३ हजार नेपाली कामदारले दूतावासमा 'आउटपास' बनाएका छन् ।Published on: 19 May 2013 | Kantipur
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13,000 Nepali workers in Saudi Arabia apply for exit permit
Following the recent announcement of Saudi Arabia to grant amnesty to Nepali migrants working in the country illegally, 13,000 Nepalis have submitted applications to the Nepali embassy in Riyadh for exit permit as of Saturday, embassy officials have said.Published on: 19 May 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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फर्की आउँदैछु घरआँगन
साउदी सरकारले अवैध कामदारलाई वैध हुन वा स्वदेश फर्कन प्रक्रियासहितको सूचना जारी गरेपछि वर्षौंदेखि अवैध भएर रहेका नेपालीमा स्वदेश फर्केर परिवारसँग भेटघाट गर्न पाउने विश्वास पलाएको छ।Published on: 18 May 2013 | Nagarik
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म यसरी जेल परें
कतारको एउटा स्कुलका शिक्षक दोर्जे गुरूङ इस्लाम धर्मको अपमान गरेको अभियोगमा दुई साताअघि थुनिए । १२ दिन थुनामा बसेर यसै साता उनी नेपाल फर्किएका छन् ।Published on: 18 May 2013 | Kantipur
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Dorje Gurung’s story
I used to teach high school students at the Qatar Academy in Doha. Because of my long hair and Mongolian features students often taunted me, calling me ‘Chink’ or ‘Jackie Chan’.Published on: 17 May 2013 | Nepali Times
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Employment Fund targets people living in poverty
The Employment Fund — a multi-donor employment initiative — has launched two new programmes targeting people living under extreme poverty and seeking employment opportunities.Published on: 17 May 2013 | The Himalayan Times
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