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Nepal’s “living goddess” has been told that she must go to school after the supreme court branded the custom of worshipping a virgin child outdated.

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A Japanese decorator will set off from Tokyo on Saturday on an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the elusive yeti.

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About 2,000 Tibetans and their Nepali supporters have staged anti-China protests in Kathmandu, just a day before the Olympic Games open in Beijing.

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Ten British adventurers are facing the prospect of being locked up as illegal
aliens at the end of a 2,800 mile rickshaw journey from Katmandu in Nepal to
Madras in southern India.

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In his last act before leaving his palace last week, Nepal’s former king, Gyanendra, tried something he never attempted during his disastrous experiment with autocratic rule.

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Nepal’s former king has been evicted from his palace as his former subjects
revelled in the loss of his dignity and the opening of his secrets.

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Nepal’s former king is refusing to hand over his crown to the government two
weeks after the country was declared a republic.

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King Gyanendra’s brief reign started in the worst possible way and went downhill from there.

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Nepal is preparing to abolish its monarchy and declare a republic, with its
new Moaist dominated government saying it would give the once revered king
15 days to leave his palace.

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Nepal is expected to formally abolish its once-revered monarchy, creating a
new republic in the Himalayas led by an assembly dominated by Maoist rebels
responsible for a decade-long insurgency.

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