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Nepal’s affluent businessmen are gobbling up the government-provided agricultural loan subsidy

Affluent businessmen have been reaping the benefits of Nepal government’s agricultural loan subsidy program, aimed to ensure farmers’ access to capital and increase production. An expose on how the government has been funding big businessmen in the name of subsidy, out of taxpayers’ money.

NP Cheap Nepali Deaths in US War zones

In Afghanistan and Iraq, Nepalese who are injured or killed while working for American contractors are often sent home with only token compensation, or none at all. 

Explained: How money flowed to Ncell’s Nepali investors through tax havens

Ncell: Nepali investors make millions from opaque share deals. #InsideNcell #TaxJustice

Permit to Plunder

Industries that mine the riverbeds for stone and pebbles might be lucrative for local governments, but the environment is paying the price.

Buyers of units in high-rises and colonies continue to get ripped off by developers

Buyers of units in high-rises and colonies continue to get ripped off by developers because the authorities have turned a blind eye to the sector’s problems 

Permit to Plunder

Industries that mine the riverbeds for stone and pebbles might be lucrative for local governments, but the environment is paying the price.