Amid incidents of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, a senior US official met Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in Kathmandu last week and discussed problems faced by the nearly 20,000 Tibetan refugees staying in the country. Read more

Nepal will welcome a very important guest four weeks from now. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will arrive in Kathmandu on December 20 on a three-day official visit. This will be the second visit by a Chinese Premier to Nepal after Zhu Rongji’s trip in 2001. Read more