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		<title>Victory for Govinda</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/24/victory-for-govinda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victory for Govinda
Govinda Prasad Mainali of Ilam who was acquitted and found not guilty in November last year for a 1997 murder in Japan has been awarded compensation worth rupees sixty million by a local court. Govinda Mainali, now 46, was convicted of killing a 39-year-old woman for which he spent 15 years in prison. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haque no more</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/22/haque-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former CA member Sardul Miya Haque was found dead on Tuesday morning when family members discovered his body near the residential quarter of his own petrol pump in Bisanpur chok. Haque’s throat had been slit and he had sustained injuries to his stomach. The assailants have not been identified yet. 
The 55-year-old had returned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limited access</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/20/limited-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nepal Bar Association has expressed serious objection over the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to grant press pass only to reporters from daily newspapers while issuing a separate pass to reporters from other media. Issuing a press release on Monday, the bar has called on the Supreme Court administration to stop such discrimination.
&#8220;It is an indirect way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spreading wings</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/19/spreading-wings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 06:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a major boost to travel and tourism, Turkish Airlines announced this week that it will be linking Kathmandu directly to Istanbul and beyond from September.
This will be the only direct flight to Europe from Kathmandu, and marks the return of major international carriers to Nepal after Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Transavia discontinued services in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up in flames</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/17/up-in-flames/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fire that broke out at Faces lounge in Thamel last night around 10 :30 was brought under control this morning. The fire that engulfed the building for nine hours also destroyed the popular Pligrims Book House that is housed in the same building and the adjacent Sisha Cafe and Terrace Bar and other shops.
It took more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet diplomacy led to release</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/14/quiet-diplomacy-led-to-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 06:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorje Gurung, the Nepali teacher detained in Qatar last week, returned to Kathmandu on Monday night after an intense behind-the-scenes lobbying by human rights groups, diplomats and his friends around the world.
Gurung taught chemistry in the Qatar Academy where a 12-year-old Qatari student accused him of insulting Islam last month. He was fired by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing us softly</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/13/killing-us-softly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annapurna Post, 10 May
The government recently conducted a study in Kathmandu Valley to determine the amount of PM 10 particles in the atmosphere. The results showed that the level of air pollution in Kathmandu has risen by 40 per cent in the last five years. PM10 particles can settle in the bronchi and lungs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean bricks please</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/11/clean-bricks-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 09:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representatives from eleven countries including Nepal’s Secretary at the Ministry of Industry Krishna Gyawali gathered in Kathmandu the two day conference on Friday to discuss  health, agriculture and climate damage caused by traditional brick kilns. During the South-South Exchange Workshop on Brick Technology and Policy, experts and participants emphasised on the need for cleaner brick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not Lokman?</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/06/why-not-lokman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 10:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Annapurna Post, 5 May
A few organisations and individuals have been strongly opposing the Constitutional Council&#8217;s decision to nominate former chief secretary Lokman Singh Karki as the chief of the Commission the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). The manner in which they are challenging the move it seems like Karki is the single biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phantom votes</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2013/05/02/phantom-votes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two months after being caught in a row between government and industry owners over a minimum-wage hike, Nepali workers in Malaysia have found themselves in a power-struggle between the government and the opposition. http://nepalitimes.com/article/nation/No-big-deal,185
The opposition parties’ alliance Anything But UMNO (ABU) have accused the ruling party United Malays National Organisation of handing out citizenship cards [...]]]></description>
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