Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Chen Song, verbally sparred with a Nepalese Editor over his claim that the actual interest rate for a loan given by a Chinese
CHINA has stepped up its activities in Nepal in recent years. Unlike in the past when security and Nepal's 25,000-strong Tibetan community were Beijing’s primary concerns, today it gets involved in Nepal's internal affairs, too. Chinese envoys in Kathmandu closely monitor developments, especia
Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba completes a year in office, and questions have been raised about Nepal’s non-aligned foreign policy.
Deuba was appointed the prime minister after the country’s supreme court ordered his appointment to replace CPN-UML leader KP Sharma Oli.
Now, during his time as the prime minister, concerns have come to light in China about whether Nepal is tilting towards the west.
This comes after the Nepal Parliament ratified the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation Nepal Compact despite China's strong reservations.
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The Supreme Court’s scathing judgment notwithstanding, Nepal’s PM KP Oli has prorogued the House a second time
After the Supreme Court of Nepal on February 23 overturned Prime Minister (PM) KP Oli’s decision to dissolve Parliament, he prorogued the House session on Monday afternoon.
A two-year power struggle between Oli and his bête noire, revolutionary leader Prachanda, has ended in a climactic anti-climax with Oli providentially keeping his chair. Witness the events in the last six months: Oli dumped the Prachanda-Madhav Nepal group, ditched the Chinese by refusing to step down as the PM, dissolved Parliament, ordered elections and reinstated himself as the PM not caretaker of a revived Government, insisting that it was business as usual. Except that the quality of governance had declined further through rule by ordinances, boosted by the party faithful President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
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No political pundit believed that the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) that was formed after the merger of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML), headed by K.P. Sharma Oli, and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre), led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, on the eve of the elections in 2018 would split within three years. But it turned into reality after President Bidya Devi Bhandari â at the recommendation of the federal government headed by PM K.P. Sharma Oli â dissolved the House of Representatives (HoR), the lower House of Nepalese parliament on 20 December, 2020, and declared the dates of the election to the HoR on 30 April and 10 May, 2021.