Word: nepal
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...that binds Asia together? Long grain rice? Pegged currencies? Excessive humidity? McDonald's, free trade and air conditioning are eradicating those common cultural touchstones. And now the last great Asian unifier?thick, leaded, URBAN SMOG?is under threat by culturally insensitive Europeans. Last year, the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, with technical assistance from Denmark, introduced a clean alternative to the three-wheeled, polluting TEMPOS and TUK-TUKS that ply Asia's cities. More than 600 electric three-wheelers now operate in Kathmandu, and while they are cleaner and safer than their internal combustion counterparts, we mourn the passing...
...SEPARATED. JAMUNA and GANGA SHRESTHA, 11 months, Siamese twins from Nepal whose heads had been fused together from birth; in Singapore. A team of 20 doctors worked in shifts around the clock to complete the complicated, four-day-long operation...
...family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari, founder of Sparkle, Nepal's only all-female rock band, told listeners...
...Nepal has signed all of the appropriate international conventions and treaties on gender and women, but has little to show for it. Maternal mortality is high?more than 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births. Only 29% of women are literate, compared with 50% of men. "If we could get some admission that women aren't slaves or possessions of men, then eventually they would be free to play a full role in society," says activist Uprety. "Right now they're little better than pack animals...
...after the earthquake jolted the subcontinent?it was felt as far away as Nepal and Bangladesh?the cries of the trapped victims began to grow faint throughout western India. In Ahmedabad, distraught parents flocked to a school which imploded, trapping 39 children and several teachers inside. Rescue workers said that during the first wave of tremors, the children were herded into a stairwell. Then the walls came tumbling down. "My only son is in there," wailed one woman. "I know he's still alive." But her hope dimmed every time firemen and volunteers extracted another tiny corpse from the site...