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Sonia Awale retweeted
"Climate justice cannot remain a beautiful phrase in a United Nations document. The people of our country must be allowed to build their future instead of constantly rebuilding their past."
Read PM Balendra Shah's full address to the UN General Assembly:
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Nepal's tragedy is a warning for a warming world but the sheer scale of the flood would have overwhelmed even the most well-equipped governments.
I analyse the Nepal-China floods a week later for the @TIME.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Sonia Awale, the editor of @NepaliTimes on the tragedy in Nepal and its urgent warning for a warming world in @TIME time.com/article/2026/09/01/…
The sheer scale of the Nepal-Tibet flood would have overwhelmed even the most well-equipped governments.
"Melting glaciers and high seismic activity make the Himalayas a high risk zone. The tragedy in Nepal is a lesson for the world," writes Sonia Awale. time.com/article/2026/09/01/…
Sonia Awale retweeted
We should not need a disaster to remind us to be prepared. By then it is too late for many people, as it tragically was this week. We failed to learn our lessons once again. #editorial
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In the aftermath of the Nepal-China flood on 26 August, scientists are using remote sensing data to find the sequence of events that caused the disaster.
Most say there is a direct link to global warming, others point to more underlying geological reasons.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Have you read our coverage of the Nepal flood in this week's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Not if, but when next?
▶️Post-mortem of a disaster
▶️We are all downstream now
▶️The danger of living below the Tibetan Plateau
Go to nepalitimes.com for latest developments.
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Satellite images show the glacial collapse on the North Face of Langtang was in Nepal itself. Central Nepal flood, the day after. Analysis by @kundadixit.
New updates from #NepalFlooding:
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Tamang Portraits by Gabriele Tautscher is a masterclass in visual anthropology, but also documents how historical events like border closure with Tibet and modern demographic shifts within Nepal continue to shape Tamang society.
Review by @kundadixit:
nepalitimes.com/ethnographic…
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Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Love thy neighbours (and America)
▶️Silver lining in war clouds
▶️When Aura meets Audit
▶️Birth sleeves and synapses
▶️Rangelands of the Himalaya
▶️Living to tell the tale
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Balendra Shah is set to be sworn in as Nepal's prime minister on Friday. His reticence and reclusiveness have reinforced his brand of not being a talker. But the people he now represents would like to know, and have a right to know, what the PM is up to.
nepalitimes.com/news/ball-in…
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Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Big blue wave
▶️As clear as a bell
▶️Rough road for Nepal's new rulers
▶️Nobody ran the campaign. That's why it worked.
▶️The RSP's activist DNA
▶️Motherhood in the Madhes
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Sonia Awale retweeted
#editorial There are many things wrong in Nepal and even with RSP's near two-thirds majority it would be impossible to solve them all overnight. Effective governance takes time and RSP must be given the chance, even if it fails, to make course-corrections.
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Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Battleground Tarai
▶️Migrant>returnee>entrepreneur>politician
▶️Rukum in the eyes of its children
▶️Red Alert: Get ready for the wildfire season
▶️Langtang Emmentaler
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Madhes has always been a battleground for Nepal’s electoral politics, and is in the spotlight this election because two prime ministerial candidates have focused their attention in the region.
Read Shristi Karki's report:
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Map aficionados will be fascinated by the 40 antique maps from The Rajbhandari Collection on display at the ongoing exhibition ‘Imaging South Asia: Nepal in the Making at Kathmandu Art Gallery’ at Baber Mahal Revisited.
Read Kunda Dixit's review:
nepalitimes.com/review/map-l…
Sonia Awale retweeted
The real fragility of Nepal’s mountains is of economics and governance, not geology, writes climate scientist Ngamindra Dahal.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Although there is a youth wave, the three mainstream parties still have their ballot banks among older rural voters. Even in the cities, the disparate new parties and young candidates may dilute the vote allowing the older parties to retain their foothold.
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Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? Some highlights here:
▶️ New wine, new bottles
▶️ The Himalaya is not fragile
▶️ Looking good by doing good
▶️ Kangchenjunga in winter
▶️ Going offtrek in Solu
▶️ New Year readings
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