Highly-Accomplished Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Masters and Western Dharma Teachers Lead Extraordinary Spiritual Journeys to Kathmandu, Nepal.
Trips Launched by Drala Adventures SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most exotic places on earth, the colorful and ancient Kathmandu Valley in Nepal is renowned for its full range of historic and artistic marvels. Like a technicolor epic come to life, the...

Nepal's Supreme Court has given its consent to same-sex marriages, ordering the country's Maoist-led government to craft laws to guarantee full rights to gays and lesbians, including the right to marriage.
Nepal's Supreme Court has given its consent to same-sex marriages, ordering the country's Maoist-led government to craft laws to guarantee full rights to gays and lesbians, including the right to marriage. "This is a landmark decision for the sexual minorities and we welcome it," said Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal's...

Travel & Leisure II Feature Package.
The following feature package is a roundup of feature stories dealing with Travel and Leisure and is appropriate for special sections and for general use. For those receiving this copy via computer, the stories are easily identified by the initial word of the slug: "Travel." This is...

ILO: Asia's unemployment rate climbing.
Asia is likely to have 7.2 million more jobless people in 2009 than last year due to fallout from the global economic crisis, raising the region's jobless rate to 5.1 percent, the International Labor Organization said Wednesday. It forecast the ranks of unemployed workers would likely balloon...

College Town.
Byline: Lisa D. Welsh COLUMN: COLLEGE TOWN Big-league science project Clark University has been awarded a 3-year, $354,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for its new program, "Land Change and Vulnerability Studies in New England: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory." This...

Country Walkers Celebrates 30 Years as an Adventure Travel Innovator.
Special Anniversary Trips to Egypt and Vermont, Plus Win a Trip to Venice! WATERBURY, Vt., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Country Walkers -- the world's leading small-group walking tour provider -- is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2009 with two charitable "Giving Back Tours," new destinations and itineraries,...

Sunil Babu Pant: Nepalese politico.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SUNIL BABU PANT FIRST HEARD the word "homosexual" in 1992 while on scholarship to study computer science in Belarus. It took another five years, during a three-month trek through Japan, for him to first experience sexual freedom. These two firsts have paved the way for...

Concern rising over illegal adoptions in Nepal.
A study on inter-country adoption and its influence on child protection in Nepal by UNICEF and the Swiss NGO, Terre des Hommes, has revealed that the sale, abduction and trafficking of children is taking place in an under-regulated environment. (1) "Clients" from Europe and the USA are willing to...

Nepal issues citizenship certificates listing transgender as third sex.
Two people in Nepal have been issued a citizenship certificate listing transgender as third sex, as per a Supreme Court verdict handed down in December 2007. The ruling allows lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBTs) to obtain citizenship certificates and avail of other fights on a par with...

Sexual and contraceptive behaviour among men in Nepal; the need for male-friendly reproductive health policies and services.
9780773449824 Sexual and contraceptive behaviour among men in Nepal; the need for male-friendly reproductive health policies and services. Dahal, Govinda Prasad. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 218 pages $109.95 Hardcover HQ36 Dahal,...