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Asta-Ja Crusade for a Fast-paced Agro-Jadibuti Industrialization of Nepal

Prof. Durga D. Poudel, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette As more than 1,750 youths are leaving the country daily for foreign employment, rural villages in Nepal are turning into lonely places with broken families, barren agricultural lands, and absence of youths. While about seven million Nepalese reportedly are working in foreign countries, about 6,000 migrant […]

Asta-Ja for Grassroots-based Economic Development of Nepal

Prof. Durga D. Poudel, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette A decade ago, I founded a groundbreaking Asta-Ja Framework for nation-building and socio-economic transformation of Nepal. Asta-Ja Framework includes eight “Ja”, Nepali letter “Ja”: Jal (Water), Jamin (Land), Jungle (Forest), Jadibuti (Medicinal and Aromatic plants), Janashakti (Manpower), Janawar, (Animals), Jarajuri (Crop plants), and Jalabayu (climate)   […]

Peaceful, Prosperous and Sustainable BIMSTEC: President U Win Myint

The President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar  U Win Myint has said that since the Third BIMSTEC Summit held in Nay Pyi Taw, in 2014, BIMSTEC, made considerable progress especially for the establishment of BIMSTEC Permanent Secretariat in Dhaka. The Myanmar President highlighted the importance of Agriculture sector which is the mainstay […]

Drug menace is a threat to the whole society: Sri Lankan President

Address by President Maithripala Sirisena at the 4th BIMSTEC Leaders Summit on 30th August 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal. I am very happy that the BIMSTEC summit is very successfully held in Kathmandu, Nepal, which is one of our friendly countries. I take this opportunity to thank the organizers and the Prime Minister of Nepal for inviting […]

Connecting the connectivities, South East Asia with SA: Thai PM

Speech by H.E. General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand Fourth BIMSTEC Summit 30 August 2018 It is my great honor to join all of you at the discussion today. I would like to thank the Nepalese Government for convening the 4th BIMSTEC Summit. In the last few years, BIMSTEC has become […]