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- Younghusband would be proud
Everest record old news for Japanese climber, 75
A 75-year-old Japanese climber reached the top of Mount Everest on Monday, a day too late to reclaim his record as the summit’s oldest conqueror. Elderly mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, who has undergone two bouts of heart surgery, congratulated Nepal’s Min Bahadur Sherchan, 76, who scaled the world’s [...]
- Fly in, create turbulence, lift off
I don’t want to repeat last week’s post (or comments) on the situation in Nepal, but I am compelled to bring your attention to this article, Management by Helicopter: Carter’s Futile Visit. The article appears to be written by two Nepalese natives, and is unique in that it is neither pro-King nor pro-Maoist (like [...]
- Everybody Clap Your Hands
Upon reaching Lhasa after invading Tibet , Francis Younghusband wrote:
“On the very day after our arrival I and all my staff donned our full-dress uniforms, and with an escort of three hundred men, including some of the Royal Fusiliers and a sort of band from the Gurkhas, we marched right through the city of Lhasa [...]
- Creating Facts on the Ground
Both Curzon and I are very skeptical if not downright cynical towards the latest events in Nepal. Despite the King’s abdication and a shakey ceasefire, things aren’t as they seem. The following BBC article takes note of several developments yet fails to see the big picture.
Maoists strive to win hearts and minds
Four months into [...]
- A New Lebanon in the Making
NOTE: This is autoposted. I’m still in Italy and won’t be around to respond to any comments.
In his recent roundup, Curzon mentioned briefly that the Maoists in Nepal will be able to keep their arms under the latest deal. It seems that Lebanon has taught us nothing.
Nepal peace process back on track with arms-monitoring deal
The [...]
- A Chinese Soldier and an Indian Policeman
The disputed border between China and India may not have been properly demarcated, at least in the eastern border between the two countries (as previously discussed here). From India’s the Telegraph comes a blow-by-blow of the handover. (Cached link here.
Chinese, Indian guards conspire to gain inches on each other as VIPs make speeches [...]
- To the Roof of the World
Last week saw the completion of the Beijing-Lhasa railway and the first overland travelers by train to the Roof of the World. The train stops at major cities Xi’an, Lanzhou and Xining before the 14 passenger cars arrive in Tibet.
The $4.2 billion project takes the train as high as 5,000 meters, climbing so high [...]
- Pipalbot
Is anyone else noticing that blogs keep getting more and more specialized? I mean, do you have some random interest that you think is shared by nobody else? Believe me, it’s likely that whatever your interest is, there’s a blog out there for you.
I just discovered Pipalbot, a blog focused on… Nepali-Japanese relations [...]
- “The actual situation in Nepal is as such”
I’ve recieved a report from the ground in Nepal from reader Shyam with an interesting outlook on the current situation:
The seven opposition parties are fronting the Maoists. The whole mass uprising was created by the Maoists—when the seven parties called for strikes few months earlier, the public was unresponsive. But when the Maoists [...]
- This is not over
Disaster has been averted in the recent protests in Nepal with a democratic sidestep: the King has technically restored democracy by appointing the leader of the largest political party as Prime Minister. The demonstrators have dispersed. The Maoists have called yet another ceasefire. And the country is calm, for the moment.
This is [...]
