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		<title>Malheur des Maldives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to original article here IN OCTOBER 2008, a small chain of atolls in the Indian Ocean entered the world&#8217;s club of democracies. It had been a long time coming. The incoming government hailed a different kind of politics as its supporters lined up along the sea wall, celebrating the country’s new dawn. But in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=399&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal must arrest Maina&#8217;s killer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that an army major charged with the murder of a 15-year old girl was working for the United Nations in Chad says it all. For Nepal, justice is only a word on a piece of paper. It is only one sign that those in the army were never brought to justice for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=385&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal&#8217;s tenuous peace: Striking out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec 10th 2009 &#124; KATHMANDU From The Economist print edition NEPALI brides and grooms had extra blessings to count when they married on December 9th. The country’s Maoist party had called a nationwide strike on one of the year’s few auspicious nuptial dates. But fortune smiled. The Maoists postponed their blockade, and hundreds of weddings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=383&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepalese government holds cabinet meeting on Everest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olivia Lang in Syangboche Nepalese ministers held the highest ever cabinet meeting on Mount Everest yesterday in a last-minute bid to highlight the threat of climate change to the Himalayas ahead of Copenhagen. Against a snowy backdrop of the world&#8217;s highest peak, the Nepalese prime Minister and 22 ministers, kitted out in padded jackets, hats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=381&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countries to watch out for in Copenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian&#8217;s countdown to Copenhagen identifies the main players at the summit&#8230;which I&#8217;m pleased to see includes the Maldives, regarded as the little nation with the big voice. Having reported in the Maldives at a time when people had never heard of the country unless they had been there for a honeymoon, I am constantly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=377&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everest cabinet meeting to go ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After it was announced last month by Forest ministry Deepak Bahara, there were doubts in Nepal that the proposed cabinet meet on Mount Everest would ever come to fruition. But on Friday the prime minister&#8217;s office said the plan was set for 4 December. The meet, just ahead of the UN summit in Copenhagen, will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=374&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pizza hut, a pizza hut, kentucky fried chicken..</title>
		<link>http://olivialang.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/a-pizza-hut-a-pizza-hut-kentucky-fried-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first international fast-food chains have arrived in Nepal, with Pizza Hut and KFC setting up shop bang in the middle of Durbar Marg. Nepali Times&#8217; take: &#8220;In Kathmandu today: crazy long lines at the new KFC. Apparently people waited 30 mins for the colonel&#8217;s drumsticks&#8221;.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=359&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inevitable delay</title>
		<link>http://olivialang.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/the-inevitable-delay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nepal News reports that Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has said the term of the constitutional assembly can be extended by six months if the constitution is not finished by May 2010. Up to now, despite delays which have lead to the squeezing of timeframes, politicians have been unwilling to admit the possibility of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=349&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British editor targeted for publishing letter on homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this since it kicked off in early October. An editor of an English news website has been accused of diluting Islam and promoting homosexuality in the Maldives by an Islamic group who have asked for her deportation. The religious group took offence after Maryam Omidi, who took over from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=345&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins</title>
		<link>http://olivialang.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/hindu-sacrifice-of-250000-animals-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from the biggest animal sacrifice in the world, which I covered for the Guardian and which can beread here. It was a crazy couple of days but thankfully everything worked out. The BBC corro, Joanna Jolly, and I based ourselves in Birgunj, around 45 minutes drive from the festival. On the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olivialang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8194485&amp;post=335&amp;subd=olivialang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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