In the 1990s, many Nepali-speaking citizens of Bhutan fled their country to escape oppression under the country’s “One Nation, One People” law. After landing in temporary refugee camps in Nepal, many ...
Refugees sought shelter in Nepal, where the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) established seven temporary camps. Muktangtamang, 70, recalls fleeing southern Bhutan's Sarpang district with a "thuncha ...
Foreign Minister Deuba asks Additional Secretary Mahawar to allow more air routes and direct flights to new airports.
But Red China’s conquest of neighboring Tibet shifted that calculus. “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong considered Tibet a palm ...
Part one of a two-part series examines how Nepal’s political leaders fraudulently certified Nepali citizens as Bhutanese refugees to send them to the United States. Nepal is in an uproar over ...
Some received monetary compensation for their land in Bhutan, but frequently the compensation represented only a fraction of the value of the land. Ibid. 22 UNHCR-Nepal, “Bhutanese Refugees in ...
Continue to press Nepal, Bhutan, and India to ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and the 1961 Convention on ...
The Bangladesh interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, on Wednesday said Bangladesh intended to create an ...
“Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong considered Tibet a palm whose “five fingers” of Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the British Raj’s North-East Frontier Agency (today India’s Arunachal ...