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...that Britain could become a breeding ground for Islamic extremists, the U.K. is tightening its student-visa standards to bar "bogus" entrants, a move that could reduce by thousands the number of foreigners studying in the country. The move followed the suspension of student-visa applications from northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh after their numbers soared...
...alert system at our warehouse went off; within an hour we were mobilizing for Haiti. Our warehouse is like a Walmart for disasters. We tailor the box contents to each crisis. A summer flood in Sudan requires more mosquito nets than a winter earthquake in Nepal. Haiti is tropical, so we put in fewer blankets and added extra water-purification tablets...
Read "Somali Refugees in Nepal: Stuck in the Waiting Room...
More than 12,000 civilians died during the decade of guerilla fighting instigated by the Maoist party in the 1990s, and Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, a Tibetan and Himalayan studies professor who previously lived in Nepal, said the country continues to struggle with “abject poverty and incredible state corruption on every level...
...addition, the article misquoted Deol as saying that her film was the only film produced independently that was on the short list for an Oscar and as saying that women frequently rise through the ranks of the guerrilla army in Nepal. In fact, she said that women only sometimes are able to move up through the army’s ranks...