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NEPAL’S ready-made garment exports shot up by 17.8% during the first two months of the country’s current fiscal year starting July 16 due to currency depreciation, the Garment Association of Nepal (GAN) has claimed.

The increase follows a 10-12% fall in exports in the last fiscal year (2012-3), GAN general secretary Ashok Kumar Agrawal told just-style.…

NEPAL’S ready-to-wear garment sector wants to diversify its target markets away from a past reliance on America, prompted a slump in exports, which have fallen by more than half over the past five years. The Garment Association Nepal (GAN) general secretary Ashok Kumar Agrawal blamed decreasing demand from American consumers and told just-style the industry is hoping to “diversify export markets to Australia, Canada and Japan, making use of duty free privileges while increasing exports to the EU,” where they enter duty free under the Everything But Arms deal.…

IN Nepal, women habitually beat men when it comes to doing business. They generate 6% more profits than men, according to a study by the International Financial Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank. “Nearly half of Nepal’s women are economically active and many rural households are female-headed,” said Puja Tandon, co-founder of Nepal-based Beed Management, an international management consulting firm.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

HYDRO-ELECTRIC power is of critical importance to the tiny landlocked nation Bhutan, hidden deep in the folds of the Himalayas, with economic and military giants China to the north and India to the south. Indeed, its government regards hydropower energy as being instrumental in shifting the country from being recognised by the United Nations as a least developed into an emerging developing country in the south-east Asia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations has started coordinating the training and education of a wasted human resource in Nepal – former teenage soldiers serving in the Maoist side of the recent civil war. Around 3,000 young men and women aged under 16 were found in the ranks of the Maoist army when a ceasefire was announced in May 2006.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has given the European Commission a mandate to open negotiations on the renewal of two Agreements on Trade in Textile Products, between the EU and the Cambodian and Nepali governments.…