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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Sonia Awale |Qian Sun |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Annie Zaman
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. Much water has flowed since China announced in December 2024 that it would build the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra River or Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet to generate 60,000 megawatts of energy or 300 billion kilowatt-hours per year.
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1 month ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Mariela Arnst |Sonia Awale |Qian Sun |Mong Palatino
Este informe de Kelly Ho y se publicó originalmente en Hong Kong Free Press el 15 de abril de 2025. Global Voices publica esta versión editada como parte de un acuerdo de asociación de contenido. La ministra de Educación de Hong Kong afirmó que las escuelas están en la «primera línea» para evitar la propagación de la «resistencia suave», ya que los estudiantes pueden desarrollar valores «extremos y sesgados» por los rumores que circulan en línea.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Sonia Awale |Qian Sun
Chinese president Xi Jinping has declared a monopoly on narratives not only about today's China but also about its ancient and more recent past. In that process, any diverging narrative or piece of historical testimony that could contradict the grand official narrative is erased and censored. Yet, historical memory has managed to survive in Chinese society to this day.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Kevin Rennie |Sonia Awale |Qian Sun
The prime minister of Vanuatu, Jotham Napat, expressed dismay over an Australian documentary that discussed Chinese-funded buildings which were damaged during the December 2024 earthquake. The prime minister criticized the reporters’ “bias,” but a global media watchdog warned that the leader’s remarks could undermine critical reporting. Vanuatu is a south Pacific island nation with a population of more than 300,000.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
nepalitimes.com | Sonia Awale
The new year 2025 started literally with a bang. The 7.1M jolt in Xigatse on Tuesday swayed buildings in Kathmandu 400km away, and coincided with the approaching 91st anniversary of the 1934 Great Earthquake. The National Earthquake Safety Day on 15 January commemorates the 1934 8.3M disaster that killed 10,000 people in Kathmandu, leaving many collapsed buildings. Thousands of people of Kathmandu took shelter in tents in Tundikhel as aftershocks rattled the country (pictured).
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nepalitimes.com | Sonia Awale
Just as Nepal was recovering from the Covid pandemic in 2022, the government with GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, inoculated almost 8 million school-children against typhoid. What was even more remarkable was that this vaccine was earlier trialled among 20,000 people in Lalitpur, showing a significant reduction in typhoid incidence with efficacy rate of an impressive 80%, and was the subject of a research paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
nepalitimes.com | Sonia Awale
Next week from 31 October-4 November is the festival of lights, and that is when domestic demand for electricity will surge as it does this time every year. However, this year the the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) will be hard pressed to ensure adequate supply because of the damage to power plants and transmission lines on 28 September. In a flash, Nepal lost nearly half its electricity generation capacity as a dozen power plants were knocked out.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nepalitimes.com | Sonia Awale
Lovers of all things pizza must have tried Kathmandu’s very own Fire and Ice Pizzeria at least once. They will, now that the restaurant was featured recently in The New York Times’ 15 of Our Readers’ Favourite Pizza Places Around the World. It’s their Pepperoni and Mozzarella pizzas that made the cut. A comment in NYT reads: ‘Italian pizza by Italian owner using local ingredients in just about the last place you’d imagine.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
nepalitimes.com | Sonia Awale
This late monsoon storm was not a surprise. Weather forecasts had warned of heavy precipitation a week before, the Met Office predicted heavy rain on 27-28 September, SMS warned people to take precaution, radio stations issued bulletins, and night buses were banned in 56 districts. The tragedy was compounded because we knew what was coming, and did not do enough to prepare. The accurate weather forecast made no real difference on the ground.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
nepalitimes.com | Sonia Awale
Halucha is a carpenter living a happy life with his big family in Kathmandu’s Maru Hiti in the 1960s handcrafting chairs, tables and temple woodwork. He observes festivals of his Newa community including Yenya, Indra Jatra, enjoys his favourite choila baji and with friends, and occasionally momocha. Read also: Wine and women during Yenya, Pratibha Tuladhar But then a big new furniture factory is set up nearby, which takes away the jobs of those with the ancestral occupation of carpentry.
