| October 8, 2007 | - A Nepalese eighth-grader who felt pity for policemen facing street demonstrations invented a crowd-controlling robot that can “charge at the mob with baton, use water canon, lob tear gas, and even shoot.”
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Nepal News
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| September 5, 2007 | -
Nepal's state-run airline, after experiencing technical problems with one of its planes, sacrificed two goats to appease the Hindu sky god.
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Reuters
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| March 27, 2007 | - A Nepalese teenager believed to be a reincarnation of the Buddha began a three-year meditation in a concrete bunker.
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AFP via Yahoo!NEWS Singapore
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| September 1, 2006 | - A 10-pound, 20-inch-tall, 14-year-old Nepalese boy claimed to be the world's smallest adult.
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AP via Boston Globe
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| May 26, 2006 | - A Sherpa stood naked on the summit of Mount Everest.
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Indobase
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| May 19, 2006 | - The Nepal House of Representatives declared the King of Nepal to be powerless.
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The Washington Times
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| May 17, 2006 | - A man with no legs climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest.
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The Independent
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| March 8, 2006 | - In rural Nepal fathers were being paid in piglets if they agreed not to sell their daughters into servitude.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| January 2, 2006 | -
Nepalese Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced an end to the four-month truce with King Gyanendra's Royal Nepalese Army.
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New Kerala
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| September 16, 2005 | - Eighty-seven journalists were arrested for protesting against Nepalese restrictions on the media.
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CTV.ca
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| September 15, 2005 | - The Supreme Court of Nepal ruled that it was "evil" to force menstruating women to live in cow sheds.
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BBC News
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| February 27, 2005 | -
Maoists killed fifteen in Nepal.
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Times of India
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| February 25, 2005 | -
Nepalese soldiers killed dozens of Maoists in Nepal.
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Reuters
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| February 1, 2005 | - The King of Nepal said he was a proponent of multiparty democracy, then fired the government, sent troops to the house of the Prime Minister, and assumed direct ruling authority.
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The New York Times
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| January 28, 2005 | - and the government of Nepal shut down the Dalai Lama's offices in Kathmandu.
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BBC News
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| October 8, 2004 | - Rebels and government soldiers were abducting, torturing, and killing civilians in Nepal.
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Reuters
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| August 31, 2004 | - Twelve Nepalese hostages were apparently videotaped as they were killed by Iraqi militants.
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Associated Press
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| August 20, 2004 | -
Kathmandu was being blockaded by Maoist rebels.
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Associated Press
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| July 4, 2004 | - female rice farmers in Nepal were plowing their fields in the nude to please the rain god.
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Associated Press
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| May 8, 2004 | - The prime minister of Nepal resigned after weeks of violent street protests against the king.
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New York Times
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| April 9, 2004 | -
Nepal banned public protests in Katmandu.
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Associated Press
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| April 2, 2004 | - Fifty thousand protesters filled the streets of Katmandu, Nepal, demanding a restoration of democracy.
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Associated Press
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| March 22, 2004 | - There was heavy fighting in Nepal and the government claimed to have killed hundreds of rebels.
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Associated Press
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| March 4, 2003 | -
A three-year-old boy and a six-month-old girl were married in Nepal; the ceremony was briefly halted after the bride got fussy but resumed after both the bride and groom were breast-fed.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Maoist rebels attacked a Coca-Cola plant near Katmandu.
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