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  "Digital Broadcast | Vendor News Asia "
Radio Nepal says that radio broadcasting is the cheapest and quickest means of mass communications in the mountainous country.
Radio Nepal short wave radio transmissions are estimated to reach even the remotest villages while medium wave stations can be heard by 70 - 80% of the population.
Radio Nepal broadcasts in Nepali, English and Magar, Gurung, Tamang, Rai Bantawa, Limbu, Newari, Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu, Tharu East and Tharu West, Avadhi, Sherpa, Maithili, Sanskrit, Kham Magar and Doteli languages.
e-broadcastnewsasia.blogspot.com /2006/09/digital-broadcasters-radio-nepal.html   (647 words)

  
 Nepal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nepal is of roughly rectangular shape, 650 km wide and 200 km broad, with an area of 147,181 km².
Nepal's GDP for the year 2005 is estimated to be just over US$37bn (adjusted to Purchasing Power Parity), making it the 83rd largest economy in the world.
Nepal has a rich tradition of ceremonies, such as nwaran (the christening of a child), and the Pasni, the day a child is first fed rice, and bratabandha (the penance ceremony) and gupha for prepubescent boys and girls, respectively.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nepal   (3675 words)

  
 Map Zones : Nepal Map
Nepal is often characterized as a country caught in two different worlds, having one leg in the sixteenth century and another in the twentieth century.
Nepal in the late twentieth century was still surrounded by giants and still in the process of integrating its many localized economies and cultures into a nation state based on the ancient center of the Kathmandu Valley.
Nepal, officially Kingdom of Nepal, constitutional monarchy in southern Asia, bounded on the north by the Tibetan Autonomous Region in China and on the east, south, and west by India.
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 Atlas - Nepal Map
Nepal is often characterized as a nation caught in two different worlds, having one leg in the sixteenth century and another in the 20th century.
Nepal remained until 1990 one of the few nations in the world where the king, wielding absolute authority and embodying sacred tradition, attempted to lead his nation towards the twenty-first century.
Nepal in the early 1990s was predominantly a rural-agricultural society, where more than 90 % of the people lived in rural areas and depended on farming as a source of livelihood.
www.map.freegk.com /nepal/nepal.php   (2835 words)

  
 Background Notes Archive - South Asia
HISTORY Modern Nepal was created in the latter half of the 18th century when Prithvi Narayan Shah, the ruler of the small principality of Gorkha, formed a unified country from a number of independent hill states.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS Nepal is a constitutional monarchy with a democratic, parliamentary form of government that is multiethnic, multilingual, Hindu, and retains the king in the role of head of state.
Nepal's judiciary is legally separate from the executive and legislative branches and has increasingly shown the will to be independent of political influence.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/sa/nepal9501.html   (3404 words)

  
 Advice for Nepal Volunteers - Communications
Most medium-size towns in Nepal have at least one shop with a telephone on which you can make international calls, and in larger towns these are very easy to find.
The quality of telephone connections in Nepal can be very random and the same telephone might give you a perfect connection one time and an unusable connection the next.
When I was in Nepal, the cost of sending a postcard to England was 15p and the cost of sending a letter was 25p.
nepalvolunteer.com /advice/communications.shtml   (463 words)

  
 Nepal
Modern Nepal was created in the latter half of the 18th century when Prithvi Narayan Shah, the ruler of the small principality of Gorkha, formed a unified country from a number of independent hill states.
NP (Kingdom of Nepal), Nepal (Kingdom of Nepal, The Kingdom of Nepal), kongeriget Nepal (Kingdom of Nepal, The Kingdom of Nepal).
NP (Kingdom of Nepal), Nepalin kuningaskunta (Kingdom of Nepal), Nepal (Kingdom of Nepal).
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 Encyclopedia: Communications in Nepal
Nepal Telecom (or NT) is the leading and the largest telecommunication company of Nepal.
International: Radiotelephone Communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) This page is about the radiation; for the appliance, see microwave oven.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 20, shortwave 1 (January 2000) Broadcast could refer to: Broadcast, an electronica musical group broadcasting, the distribution of audio and video signals Broadcast address, an IP address allowing information to be sent to all machines on a given subnet.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Communications-in-Nepal   (338 words)

  
 Nepal - Communications
Nepal isn't nearly as isolated as it once was.
Despite the rise of TV, the government-run Radio Nepal is probably still the most influential of the nation's media, catering to the illiterate majority of Nepalis and reaching villages well beyond the circulation of any newspaper.
With a daily format of traditional and pop music, news bulletins, English language lessons, dramas and development messages, it has been a powerful force for cultural and linguistic unity, though in recent years various ethnic groups have pressured the government to provide programming in their native tongues.
www.links2asia.com /nepal/Communications.htm   (825 words)

  
 Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news
Nepal’s king Gyanendra, who sacked the government and took the power last Tuesday, named a 10-member cabinet of handpicked ministers and administrators the next day.
Most of the news from Nepal are currently published in Indian papers, whose correspondents call their headquarters through satellite-phones.
Pokhara is the second biggest town of Nepal, and one of the main tourist spots, as it marks the start and finish point for those trekking or climbing the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri massifs.
www.mounteverest.net /story/NepalinthenewsCommunicationsblackoutandinternationalreactionsFeb42005.shtml   (859 words)

  
 TIME ARCHIVE: 1923 - Present   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
This is the time of year in Nepal, the small kingdom perched in the Himalayas between India and China, when mountain goats, buffaloes and chickens are slaughtered to appease the Hindu gods and ensure good fortune for the coming twelve months.
Nepal's King Mahendra, 47, is himself revered by his 10 million subjects as a...
In the primitive mountain kingdom of Nepal, crunched between India and China, there are only 250 telephones, most of which connect the palace of 38-year-old King Mahendra with those of the Ranas, hereditary Prime Ministers.
www.time.com /time/searchresults?query=Nepal&x=0&y=0   (1097 words)

  
 Nepal: State of emergency deepens human rights crisis - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
King Gyanendra of Nepal today dismissed the Government, assumed direct power, and declared a nation-wide state of emergency.
"The international community must make it immediately clear to the King that by assuming power he is directly responsible for protecting the people of Nepal and safeguarding their fundamental human rights," the organizations said.
Nepal’s last state of emergency in 2001-2002 led to an explosion of serious human rights violations, including increased extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and a breakdown in the rule of law.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGASA310082005   (462 words)

  
 Nepal COMMUNICATIONS, NEPAL - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Radio Nepal, transmitting by shortwave, has been in existence since the early 1950s.
The single station, Nepal Television had a transmitter outside Kathmandu and transmitting stations in Pokhara, Biratnagar, and Hetauda.
There were approximately 200,000 television sets in 1991, and in some areas the government provided television sets for community viewing.
www.photius.com /countries/nepal/economy/nepal_economy_communications_nepa~640.html   (390 words)

  
 Nepal Country Guide - General Information - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
GEOGRAPHY: Nepal is a landlocked kingdom sharing borders with Tibet to the north and northwest, and India to the west, south and east.
The hilly central area is crossed by the Lower Himalayas, where there are eight of the highest peaks in the world, leading up to Mount Everest.
Wildlife in Nepal includes tigers, leopards, gaur, elephants, buffalo, deer and rhinos.
www.worldtravelguide.net /data/npl/npl.asp   (438 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Nepal
Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with 42% of its population living below the poverty line.
Nepal has considerable scope for exploiting its potential in hydropower and tourism, areas of recent foreign investment interest.
The international community's role of funding more than 60% of Nepal's development budget and more than 28% of total budgetary expenditures will likely continue as a major ingredient of growth.
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/np.html   (1133 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Communications restored in Nepal
Phone lines have been restored in Nepal a week after being cut when the king declared a state of emergency.
Soldiers are still on the streets of Kathmandu and other towns, but troops have left a number of newsrooms where they had been vetting reports and broadcasts.
Newspaper reports said the go-ahead to restore phone and internet links came from a hitherto unheard of body, the subcommittee on state affairs, comprising the chiefs of the three sections of the security forces and secretaries from three ministries.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/4245411.stm   (564 words)

  
 Nepal Telephone system - Communications
coaxial cable - a multichannel communication cable consisting of a central conducting wire, surrounded by and insulated from a cylindrical conducting shell; a large number of telephone channels can be made available within the insulated space by the use of a large number of carrier frequencies.
fiber-optic cable - a multichannel communications cable using a thread of optical glass fibers as a transmission medium in which the signal (voice, video, etc.) is in the form of a coded pulse of light.
landline - communication wire or cable of any sort that is installed on poles or buried in the ground.
www.indexmundi.com /nepal/telephone_system.html   (568 words)

  
 WWF - WWF Nepal signs MoU with biogas company to protect trees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
One of the major goals of the WWF-initiated Terai Arc Landscape Programme – which covers 49,500km2 of conservation area – is to conserve the area's biodiversity, forests, soil and watersheds in order to ensure the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural integrity of the region.
In particular, the programme aims to restore corridors of forests linking protected areas of lowland Nepal and the trans-border protected areas of India to facilitate wildlife movement, including that of tigers, elephants and rhinos.
Biogas in Nepal has become popular in recent years as the technology is relatively simple, reliable, accessible, and risk free.
www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news.cfm?uNewsID=19955   (431 words)

  
 Communications Of Nepal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
If you would like to use this flag of Nepal or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this map of Nepal or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this information for Nepal or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/nepal_country_communications.shtml   (219 words)

  
 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia advises Russians to not go to Nepal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation recommended Russians to refrain from trips to Nepal to communications with complex internal political conditions to this country.
In the recommendation of the ministry it is spoken, that violent actions of antigovernmental extreme Left insurgents in Nepal create threat of safety of foreigners.
In case of visiting Nepal by virtue of necessity it is necessary to inform on arrival and departure embassy of Russia in Katmandu and to be guided by its advice concerning observance of safety measures ", - it is spoken in the message.
news.rusportal.net /18908.html   (204 words)

  
 Nepal :: Maps :: Information :: Statistics
Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with 42% of its population living below the poverty line.
Security concerns in the wake of the Maoist conflict and the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the US have led to a decrease in tourism, a key source of foreign exchange.
Nepal has considerable scope for exploiting its potential in hydropower and tourism, areas of recent foreign investment interest.
www.maps4free.com /map-of-nepal.shtml   (1150 words)

  
 BMS World Mission - nepal communications re-connected   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
BMS World Mission has now been in direct contact with its workers in Nepal after phone lines were restored yesterday (8 February), following a week in which the country was practically cut off from the outside world.
The latest crisis in Nepal happened after His Majesty King Gyanendra declared a state of emergency in Nepal on 1 February sacking his government and assuming direct powers.
Please continue to pray that BMS-supported work in Nepal is able to continue; there are currently 25 long and short-term workers and six supported partner workers in the country.
www.bmsworldmission.org /16182   (377 words)

  
 Himalayan Links
The Nepal Home Page - An extensive FAQ on travel in Nepal, articles from Travellers' Nepal, directories of trekking agencies and embassies, a festival calendar and a bunch of other stuff, plus links to every other Nepal-related site.
SherpaFund - Raises funds for schooling Sherpa children from remote areas of Nepal where access to education is extremely limited.
KFK Nepal is a non-government charity organization working to save the lives of children in Nepal since 1997.
www.hec.org /info/links.htm   (838 words)

  
 COMMUNICATIONS: Good Internet Governance Key for Development - Annan
Vinton Cerf, senior vice president of MCI Communications, told delegates that there was an old expression that was once used to describe the behaviour of a governmental regulatory body: ''If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.''
Anriette Esterhuysen, executive director of South Africa's Association for Progressive Communications, told reporters that participants in the Forum were challenged to address not only developing countries' concerns about inequitable access to new technologies, but also the feeling that the poor were excluded from decision-making on how the Internet phenomenon would be managed in the future.
A valuable outcome of the WSIS process in Geneva, she said, was that Internet policies are not merely technical, but also have a social and developmental perspective.
www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=23052   (1094 words)

  
 Statement by the Minister of Information and Communications of Nepal at the WTDC-02
Coming from one of the least developed countries, Nepal, my delegation hopes that the conference will successfully address the telecommunication needs of the least developed countries (LDCs).
This policy recognizing the need to make available all kinds of information to the people, emphasizes the development and expansion of telecommunications services as a very essential service in order to foster it as an infrastructure of national development, and encourage the participation of private sector investment.
The main objective of this policy is to develop and expand the telecommunications services in a fair competitive atmosphere with the involvement of private sector.
www.itu.int /newsarchive/wtdc2002/nepal.html   (604 words)

  
 Communications in Nepal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
1 cellular service available by (Click link for more info and facts about Nepal Telecom) Nepal Telecom, formerly known as Nepal Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) and 1 WLL telephone service by United Telecom Limited (UTL).
Good telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone network
(A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) Radio (A radio or television show) broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 20, shortwave 1 (January 2000)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/communications_in_nepal.htm   (168 words)

  
 Communications in Nepal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Communications in Nepal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Nepal Travel Guide and Nepal Travel Information - TravelPuppy.com
For many years, Nepal was an unknown secret country until the 1950s when it was faced with making a leap from the 11th century to modern times.
Nepal was first visited by mountaineers and trekkers and later it became an escape for hippies.
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