Lifestyle
Weekend Hangout
Weekend Hangout
Every Friday and Saturday, we look into venues around the city to find a suitable place to hang around with our friends and loved ones. Sometimes, it becomes difficult to decide. Republica Online brings weekend hangouts in Kathmandu that you can hop in to for some good music, a bottle of beer and so...
Mar 23, 2018
SOCIETY
Ward chair sentenced to 37 years in prison on women trafficking case
Ward chair sentenced to 37 years in prison on women traffick...
NUWAKOT, Mar 23: A local level representative here has been convicted in the women trafficking case and handed a 37-year jail sentence.
Mar 23, 2018
POLITICS
NC meets to review three months old humiliating poll defeat
NC meets to review three months old humiliating poll defeat
KATHMANDU, Mar 22: Following the humiliating defeat in federal, provincial and local level elections three months ago, Nepali Congress met to understand reasons in the party’s central working committee meeting at Sanepa.
Mar 23, 2018
The Week
The art of coffee making
The art of coffee making
Most coffee lovers, no matter where they go, tend to seek out the best coffee shops to start their day. Coffee, for them, is not just a drink but an integral part of their lives. Likewise, for Manoz Shahi, training director at The Baristas Coffee School in Bagbazar, Kathmandu, the idea of getting fr...
Mar 23, 2018
WORLD
China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Mar 23: China’s media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua new agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping.
Mar 23, 2018
The Week
First snow, shooting stars, and the Thorong La pass
First snow, shooting stars, and the Thorong La pass
May 30 is not only her birthday for 25-year-old, Dongaala, she shares she looks forward to it because it’s the time of the year she knows she will be on the road. Regardless of work or obligations, she has been making sure that is the case for the past three years now and her intention to continue t...
Mar 23, 2018
The Week
Good Reads
Good Reads
The One Thing by Gary Keller, Find Your Why and Do We Not Bleed?
Mar 23, 2018
The Week
Not so big fish in a big pond
Not so big fish in a big pond
Krishna Prasad Sigdel’s book reads like a primer on Nepal’s foreign policy and international affairs. It also deals with the country’s political, social and economic situation and environmental issues, sometimes going into considerable detail. As the author states in the preface, the book is an effo...
Mar 23, 2018
The Week
Culture of competition and collaboration
Culture of competition and collaboration
Anne McGuinness is a Tibetan-American who grew up in Kathmandu. When McGuinsess was younger, the only place where she could play sports was at her school. Although she was extremely interested in games, there were very little opportunities for her to play elsewhere.
Mar 23, 2018
The Week
Musical wonder
Musical wonder
Give a two-year-old a pair of drumsticks and you can be sure he won’t do anything more than create incessant noise with it. What you would never expect him to do is play the drums with it. But ten-year-old Utprem Jojiju has been performing in live stages since he was two, and that makes him the youn...
Mar 23, 2018