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Parkmandu is an initiative that is transforming Kathmandu’s urban spaces and making them livable and enjoyable for everyone. Our collective initiative is working with local communities to build and rebuild parks and other open spaces in order to improve the way people live their neighbourhoods in the city. Kathmandu’s urban development has been going under…
New York-based jewellery designer Arpana Rayamajhi has been featured in a promotional short film showing the beauty of the Himalayas and Nepal. The short film by German airline Lufthansa follows Arpana Rayamajhi as she travels around different places in Nepal from Kathmandu Valley to Pokhara to the villages of Namche Bazaar. Watch the promotional short…
The good news is that people are talking and sharing stories about Gurkha on Facebook. The not so great news, however, is that the Facebook’s algorithm is promoting an old news story of Gurkhas from an unauthentic click-bait website. Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered trending feature has been in several news stories recently for its flaws…
You can change your Facebook profile picture with Nepali flag profile frame to support the Nepali team participating at Rio 2016 Olympics. Facebook has rolled out Olympics profile photo frames asking users to show their team spirit by changing their profile images. The new flag profile frames include the country’s flag along with the official…
A popular photo contest in Nepal organised by the Photojournalist Club (PJ Club) has revealed its top selection and winners for the Nepali year 2073. Shortlisting from 6670 photos submitted by 811 photographers, the club’s jury announced top photos in seven different categories. Three photos from each category including Culture and Tourism, Wildlife and Nature,…
The plight of kids from Nepal has made international headlines recently with the U.K.’s leading tabloid newspaper revealing how some children are being transported to Britain to work as household slaves or servants. The shocking investigation by The Sun reveals how unscrupulous gangs are targeting kids on the streets of Nepal and offering to sell…
There’s lot of noise around – if Nepal is really safe to visit by now. Many countries had issued travel warnings for their citizens following the devastating April 25 earthquake and this still has instilled fears in visiting Nepal. The immediate effect was seen in the tourism industry that reported 17,000 fewer tourists between May…
For the past two years, we at Kathmandu Living Labs have been building community around OpenStreetMap, which is a free wiki map of the world. One of the major reasons for building this community was that, we believed having a great map that is made by the locals themselves is a great help in building…
– By Natasha Jade Two years ago I spent six months in Nepal, volunteering, studying yoga and painting. During my time in the country I sketched the great Maju Deval temple in Kathmandu that has now been destroyed to the recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake. When I returned to London I created a large oil painting of…
Have you ever wondered what you should know while traveling to Nepal? Have you searched the internet and found lots of bad stuff about Nepal? I have busted seven of those top myths about traveling to Nepal in this post! 1. Nepal’s roads are all crap! I would say that is true but it actually isn’t. Not now…