Barely a week after a delegation from Yunnan Province of China left the country, another Chinese contingent is currently in Lumbini. Shi Yugang, deputy secretary of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Yunnan Provincial Committee, recently wrapped up his Nepal visit after meeting Vice President Ramsahaya Prasad Yadav and some ministers. The...
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the Indian side has expressed its unwillingness to buy electricity from hydropower projects built in Nepal with direct investments from China. Addressing a meeting of the parliamentary committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee at Singha Durbar on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dahal said that this matter...
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Sunday said Nepal and China are close neighbours and reliable friends. “Our relations stand on the solid foundation of the ‘Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence’. We understand each other’s aspirations and sensitivities and extend support to each other in times of need in the spirit of true friendship,” said...
Amid a geopolitical flux, the Chinese side is pushing for Nepal to welcome the Global Security Initiative (GSI) and its Global Civilisational Initiative (GCI) and has sought increased cooperation on the new twin initiatives. The Chinese side aims to formalise this position in a joint communique likely to be released after the delegation-level talks between...
Nepal on Tuesday appeared to reject calls from China to join President Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative (GSI), but agreed to take forward ambitious cross-border connectivity projects during the visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to Beijing. A lengthy joint statement released by the two sides outlined a number of border infrastructure projects,...
The Himalaya Airlines has started flights to Qingdao from today. The Airlines started chartered flights to the touristic city in connection with expanding its destinations in China. Airlines vice-president Bijaya Shrestha said they have started direct flights to this Chinese city with the objective of promoting tourism between Nepal and China. According to him, the...
The Nepal-China Business Summit jointly organised by the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FNC- CI) and China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) in Beijing today, amid Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to the northern neighbour saw officials and representatives from both the public and private sectors express commitment to...
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha received earthquake relief materials dispatched by the Chinese government today. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Chen Song, handed over the emergency supplies from our northern neighbor to the Deputy Prime Minister during a ceremony at Pokhara Regional International Airport. The relief materials include blankets, tarpaulins, and more....
Several members of Parliament have asked the government to caution—and seek clarification from—Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song over his ‘undiplomatic’ remarks on Nepal’s energy trading with India and the state of the Indian economy. On Saturday, speaking at a discussion titled ‘China in global economy and its impact in Nepal’, Chen spoke at length about Nepal’s...
A cross-party delegation of the federal parliament left for Beijing on Sunday on a 10-day visit to China. The 20-member team, led by CPN (Maoist Centre) Chief Whip Hitraj Pandey and including 17 parliament members from various political parties and three officials of the Parliament Secretariat, left for Beijing, said a statement issued by the...