The base, which housed peacekeepers from Nepal - where cholera is endemic - had leaking sewage pipes which contaminated a river system.
This feeling of ownership has also been the reason for the project's success in Nepal - although there mini-grids are employed to supply power to remote communities.
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New Delhi (CNN) -- At least 18 people -- 13 in India and five in Nepal -- died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, local government officials told sister network CNN-IBN.
WWF-Nepal Wildlife Trade Control Co-ordinator Diwakar Chapagain says that it is not a battle that will be won quickly.
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal has banned women under the age of 30 from working in Persian Gulf nations amid increasing concerns over abuse and exploitation.
Doyne lives in Nepal year-round, traveling to the U.S. a few times a year.
Even as fuel got dearer--Nepal imports all its requirements from India--the outgoing Nepali Congress-led government dithered to the last in raising prices.
Since the mill produced more flour than the biscuit factory needed, they moved into instant noodles, a popular fast-food item in Nepal, procuring know-how from a Thai firm (hence the name Wai Wai).
To prove the doctors wrong he climbed the little-known 19, 173ft (5, 844m) Nayakhanga peak in central Nepal at 74-years-old.
In 1972, King Mahendra of Nepal (1955-72) died and was succeeded by his son, Birendra.
WWF-Nepal's office in Kathmandu said it too had learnt about the rope and pulley idea.
Now it takes a day-and-a-half, thanks to an upgrade of the Friendship Highway, as the China-Nepal road is called, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Their community awareness camps educate families in rural villages and city slums about the dangers of sex trafficking, and a daily patrol at crossing points along the India-Nepal border successfully rescues an average of four Nepali girls a day.
According to recent reports, the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2010-2011 (NLSS- III) has found out that Nepal has an adult literacy rate of 56.6 percent with a huge variation between men and women .
Nepal summoned the British ambassador in Kathmandu on Friday to protest against the arrest, according to state-run Nepal Television.
And in the case of the forests of south-western Nepal, the target is the trees.
In Royal Chitwan National Park, near Nepal's south-western border with India, dozens of elephants were tramping through the thick jungle, their riders carrying rifles and chattering on walkie-talkies.
The long-term nature of these issues and the high expectations that surround them suggests Nepal should get started on such long-term undertakings with a minimum of delay.
Mr Cinnamond, from Banbridge in County Down, was one of four climbers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who had travelled to northern Nepal to scale Mount Cho-Oyu.
Nepal gave up its 240-year old monarchy five years ago, but its dreams of the new republic including a new constitution remain in limbo as political parties failed to agree on a host of issues.
Drones and other successful anti-poaching measures have also been used by the WWF in nearby Chitwan National Park in Nepal, where the hunting of one-horned rhinos has been drastically reduced.
On the United Nations Development Programme's human-development index, Nepal comes 140th out of 177 countries.
The trekking industry in Nepal may still be a male-dominated business, but three sisters are slowly chipping away at its gender gap.
From this collection, they pick the 15 lowest (Nepal, Tajikistan and 13 sub-Saharan countries) and split the difference between them.
Rafting is far from new in Nepal and there are numerous long-established companies with considerable international experience and good safety records.
For instance, the by-laws can ensure that the international residents in the monastic zone in Lumbini are granted 5-year visas to Nepal.
When U Thant visited Nepal in April 1967 as Secretary-General of the United Nations, he proposed the development of Lumbini into a major centre of pilgrimage.
Prosecutors said Gosnell had run a filthy "house of horrors" with unqualified staff - including those who administered a lethal dose of sedatives to Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee from Nepal.
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The point of the project, which should be completed by 2014, is to allow Nepal to participate in international carbon-trading schemes that pay poor countries with lots of trees not to cut them down.
We applaud the recent decision to include Nepal in the group of five first-phase countries to roll out the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity .
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