| June 30, 2009 | - In an attempt to reduce rampant bribery, staff at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan airport were issued pants without pockets.
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BBC
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| 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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| July 0, 2000 | - Matani, a three-year-old Nepalese girl with thighs like a deer and a neck like a conch shell, a member of the Shakya goldsmith caste, was named as the “kumari,” or incarnation of the goddess Taleju, after spending a night alone with the heads of ritually slaughtered goats and buffaloes. She will wear red, and pin up her hair, and devotees will touch her feet with their foreheads, and upon menarche she will retire and then likely be spurned by all potential suitors, for the man who marries a former kumari dies young. “I feel a bit sad,” said her father, “but since my child has become a living goddess, I feel proud.”
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CNN
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