China-Nepal Exercises Don’t Worry Us: India
The enduring ties between Kathmandu and New Delhi are not concerned with the ongoing military exercises between China and Nepal, the External Affairs Ministry said.
What the Nepalese Prime Minister’s Visit to China Says About the Wider Politics of Asia
Caught between India and China, Nepal must pull off a delicate balancing act.
Sinica Podcast
06.01.15
Earthquake in Nepal!
from Sinica Podcast[Note: This podcast was first recorded on May 13.—The Editors]
On April 25, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake shook the Katmandu...
Environment
05.14.15
Nepal Earthquake Highlights Dangers of Dam-Building in Tibet
from chinadialogueAlthough the precise picture is still unclear, it’s likely that Nepal’s huge earthquake in April 2015 wreaked major damage...
Conversation
04.29.15
Is China Building Up Soft Power by Aiding Nepal?
A devastating earthquake has struck one of China’s smallest neighbors, the mountainous former kingdom known, since 2008, as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Surrounded on three sides by India—known in Nepali as a “friendly nation”—Nepal...
Nepal Rejects Taiwan Rescue Team Offer, Says Minister
Nepal does not recognize Taiwan, considered by China as part of its territory awaiting to be reunited since their split in 1949 at the end of a civil war.
CCTV Shows Moment Aftershocks Hit Tibet after Nepal Earthquake
The footage shows roads and buildings shaking violently in Gyirong county, which neighbours Nepal.
At Least 20 Killed, 58 Injured in Tibet Following Earthquake
Some 24,800 people in Xigaze City were relocated after 8.1 earthquake in neighboring Nepal.
Nepal Earthquake: India and China Send Rescue Teams to Himalayan Nation
China sent 62 rescue workers, six sniffer dogs, and was providing about $3.2 million in supplies.
Books
04.02.15
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa.
Environment
07.11.13
Organic Farming Takes Root in Nepal
from chinadialogueThe fierce sunlight bakes the fields and the winter crop of potatoes is still under the soil. Fifty-five year old Nepalese farmer Badri Prasad Humagain sits in his front yard looking out at his small field. His village in the Kathmandu Valley is...
The NYRB China Archive
04.07.11
On the Sacred Mountain
from New York Review of BooksA powerful, unexpected scene suddenly surfaces near the beginning of Colin Thubron’s characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted, new book of travel. As he walks through the mountains of Nepal, toward the holy peak of Mount...
Appeasing China: Restricting the Rights of Tibetans in Nepal
Human Rights Watch
This report concerns human rights issues surrounding the suppression of Tibetan protesters in Nepal. Following a Chinese governmental crackdown in Tibet in 2008, many Tibetans in Nepal began to protest. Nepali authorities have harshly suppressed...
The NYRB China Archive
10.21.99
Room at the Top
from New York Review of BooksThe last time I was in the Himalayas, I met a young, highly Westernized Tibetan who, misled perhaps by my Indian features (born in England, I’ve never lived in the subcontinent), started talking to me about the strange ways of the exotic...