International Business News - NPL http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Nepal's ex-communists should spearhead the new government, political opponents said Wednesday, a day after the Maoists announced they had abandoned plans for leadership because their choice for president had been rejected. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/96106-nepal-political-turmoil.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/nepal-ex-rebels-wont-form-government.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/nepal-ex-rebels-wont-form-government.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:27:07 EDT Nepal's former rebels withdrew plans to form the country's new government on Tuesday, saying they refused to lead after the defeat of their presidential candidate. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/nepals-ex-rebels-end-plan-to-form-government.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:36:02 EDT Nepal's governing assembly elected the country's first president Monday, rejecting a candidate backed by former Maoist rebels and creating political uncertainty for the new republic. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94930-nepal-first-president.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/nepal-assembly-votes-to-elect-president.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/nepal-assembly-votes-to-elect-president.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:40:24 EDT A bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river Saturday in central Nepal killing 14 passengers and leaving many missing. The bus plummeted into the river just after midnight in Khare Khola, about 100 miles west of the capital Katmandu, police official Ramji Dantel said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/14-killed-in-nepal-bus-accident.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:36:39 EDT Nepal's top three political parties nominated their candidates Thursday to contest a weekend vote in the governing assembly to elect the new republic's first president, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/nepal-parties-to-elect-1st-president.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:49:57 EDT A U.N. meeting starting Monday will decide whether China should be allowed to import more than 100 tons of elephant ivory in a one-off sale of African government stockpiles. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/un-meeting-to-decide-on-china-ivory-import-request.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:48:34 EDT About 500 Nepalese riot police who revolted and took their senior officers hostage to protest poor working conditions released their captives and surrendered after a two-day standoff, officials said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/nepal-riot-police-end-revolt.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:11:50 EDT About 500 riot policemen took senior officers hostage in a revolt in western Nepal over ill treatment and poor food, officials said Sunday. The policemen seized the riot police camp at Nepalgunj, about 310 miles west of Katmandu, on Saturday and were holding seven senior police officials hostage, said Krishna Acharya, a government administrator in the area. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/nepal-riot-police-revolt-over-bad-food.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:07:26 EDT Striking doctors in Nepal shut down all the hospitals and clinics in the Himalayan nation Thursday, demanding better government protection against attacks by angry relatives of patients who have died. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/doctors-strike-shuts-hospitals-in-nepal.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:47:22 EDT A zookeeper's house cat has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother and is nursing the cub along with her own kittens, the Artis zoo said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88568-netherlands-panda.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/dutch-house-cat-adopts-rejected-red-panda.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/dutch-house-cat-adopts-rejected-red-panda.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:21:05 EDT About 200 gunmen on horseback and in SUVs launched a brazen attack on international peacekeepers in Darfur, killing seven in the deadliest strike against the under-equipped and understaffed mission since it deployed, the U.N. said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88789-sudan-darfur.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/report-5-darfur-peacekeepers-killed-17-missing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/report-5-darfur-peacekeepers-killed-17-missing.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:59:22 EDT Nepalese doctors walked off the job Wednesday, shutting down hospitals and clinics in the capital to pressure the government to protect them against attacks by angry relatives of patients who have died. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/strike-shuts-hospitals-in-nepal-capital.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:34:48 EDT Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or witchcraft, a human rights group said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/rights-group-reports-abuses-in-saudi-arabia.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:50:48 EDT Nepal's supreme court has freed three Tibetan activists jailed for leading anti-China protests, a court official said Tuesday. Court spokesman Hemanta Rawal said the judges ruled in favor of the activists Monday and ordered them to be released immediately. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/nepal-court-frees-3-jailed-tibetans.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:28:08 EDT About 500 people gathered outside the summer home of Nepal's former king Monday to greet him on his 61st birthday. Gyanendra, however, did not meet visitors and nobody was allowed inside the Nagarjung palace, situated on a forested hill just west of the Nepalese capital, Katmandu. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/supporters-mark-ex-kings-birthday.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:39:54 EDT Hundreds of Tibetans protesting Chinese control of their homeland tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in the Nepalese capital on Friday, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/hundreds-of-tibetan-exiles-protest-in-nepal.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:58:57 EDT Nepal's government has decided to ask the United Nations to continue a peacekeeping mission in the country for another six months, an official said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85489-nepal-tibet.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/nepal-to-seek-extension-of-un-mission.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/nepal-to-seek-extension-of-un-mission.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:53:03 EDT A Vatican-affiliated news agency says a Roman Catholic priest has been killed in Nepal in a suspected terrorist attack. AsiaNews says the Rev. John Prakash died after armed men broke into his residence in the eastern city of Sirsiya and set off an explosive device. Prakash was 62. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/report-priest-killed-in-nepal.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:17:28 EDT Nepalese police detained 42 Tibetan monks and nuns Tuesday after the group trekked for five days through the Himalayas to protest China's crackdown on dissidents in their homeland, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/police-stop-tibetan-protesters-near-chinese-border.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:43:04 EDT Nepalese police detained about 50 Tibetan exiles who were protesting Friday against China's crackdown in their homeland, a day after the United States raised concerns about Nepal's treatment of Tibetan demonstrators. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/nepalese-police-break-up-tibetan-protest-detain-50.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:57:53 EDT