South Asia

Nepal: Himalaya Rana receives Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun decoration

Nepal-Japan Relations.  Kathmandu, May 24: The Embassy of Japan in Kathmandu, Nepal held an official commemorative event celebrating the 2021 Autumn Conferment honoring Mr. Himalaya Rana, the 120th Anniversary of International Student Exchanges, and the achievement of Ms. TABEI Junko, the first female mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest. buy biaxin online bayareawellness.net/images/photoalbum/gif/biaxin.html […]

The Nordic NATO pivot: a stronghold for regional and global peace or a fragile region with turbulent seas and crowded skies?

– Tone Bleie, Norway Why shifts in the Nordic region matter? Imagine Nepal as a small state left an alliance-free foreign policy on short notice, seeking membership in a regional military alliance. Imagine your defense minister few weeks back said s/he was against membership and your prime minister expressed serious reservations. Imagine a historical decision […]

Nepal in the Face of Geopolitical Rivalry of Great Powers

Yuba Nath Lamsal Nepal’s former Ambassador to Denmark The world is interconnected and inter-dependent. The advancement of science and technology has reduced the world into a small global village. In this interconnected world, no single country is fully self-sufficient and self-reliant on all facets. All countries, big or small, powerful or weak and developed or […]

India chase to win public hope in mess-hit Sri Lanka

Ace Collymore  Foreign Policy Analyst  & Journalist Canada For the past 15 years, India and China have vied for favorable diplomatic and trade relations with Sri Lanka thanks to its strategic location in the Indian Ocean. While popular perception indicated China had outpaced India, the recent economic and political turmoil in Sri Lanka seems to […]

China’s thump in South Asia behind Pakistan regime change and Sri Lankan disorder?

Eight minute read. N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: Nepali observers confirm the “Indian hand” for the unceremonious ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pakistan last month (April) and the “dangerous” demonstrations that destabilized not only friendly nation Sri Lanka but also forced the sitting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajpaksha to prefer a “grand escapade” to […]