KATHMANDU Nepal’s government has bypassed the country’s parliament to issue a controversial ordinance facilitating foreign investment in different sectors of the country, including protected areas, in a move that could have long-term consequences for the country’s hard-won conservation gains, experts say. Although the details of the ordinance, signed into law by President Ram Chandra […]
What prompted Novato resident and restauranteur Surinder Sroa, who opened his first Lotus Indian restaurant in San Rafael in 1998, to add an all-American sandwich shop to his list of enterprises? When the owner of Perry’s Deli in Fairfax located right next door to Sroa’s Cafe Lotus decided to sell the 61-year-old business this year, […]