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2/3 of manpower agencies suspended; brain drain or brain circulation?

Nepal Now: On the move - July 16, 2024 14:15 - 7 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Last week the show reached 80 episodes. It's not a significant number, except that it brings us closer to what will be a milestone—100 episodes. I figure we'll reach that at around the end of the year, and will definitely want to mark it somehow. Maybe with T-shirts, oth...

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2/3 of manpower agencies suspended; brain drain or brain circulation?

Nepal Now: On the move - July 16, 2024 14:15 - 7 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Last week the show reached 80 episodes. It's not a significant number, except that it brings us closer to what will be a milestone—100 episodes. I figure we'll reach that at around the end of the year, and will definitely want to mark it somehow. Maybe with T-shirts, oth...

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Mountain district goes global to discourage youth migration

Nepal Now: On the move - July 09, 2024 04:15 - 15 minutes
Send us a Text Message. It’s amazing what you can find when curiosity is your guide. I was on a reporting trip in Taplejung district in northeast Nepal, bordering Tibet and India. I had an extra day so I thought I’d look for a school that provides meals to its students. It’s a topic I’ve been ...

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Mountain district goes global to discourage youth migration

Nepal Now: On the move - July 09, 2024 04:15 - 15 minutes
Send us a Text Message. It’s amazing what you can find when curiosity is your guide. I was on a reporting trip in Taplejung district in northeast Nepal, bordering Tibet and India. I had an extra day so I thought I’d look for a school that provides meals to its students. It’s a topic I’ve been ...

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Israel seeking workers for long-term care; your favourite episode?

Nepal Now: On the move - July 02, 2024 04:15 - 4 minutes
Send us a Text Message. I want to start this week with a shout out to Tanka, who shared our 3 latest episodes on LinkedIn, including his favourite. His top choice was our chat with Raj and Sunita, who met, online, while working in Gulf countries, got married in Nepal and are now living here aga...

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Israel seeking workers for long-term care; your favourite episode?

Nepal Now: On the move - July 02, 2024 04:15 - 4 minutes
Send us a Text Message. I want to start this week with a shout out to Tanka, who shared our 3 latest episodes on LinkedIn, including his favourite. His top choice was our chat with Raj and Sunita, who met, online, while working in Gulf countries, got married in Nepal and are now living here aga...

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'Migrating from Nepal is a tradition'

Nepal Now: On the move - June 25, 2024 10:15 - 30 minutes
Send us a Text Message. If you’ve been listening to this show since we re-launched in March to focus only on migration, I think, like me, you would have started to see that there is no one type of migration story. Yes, there are two large groups of migrants — people going abroad to work and oth...

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'Migrating from Nepal is a tradition'

Nepal Now: On the move - June 25, 2024 10:15 - 30 minutes
Send us a Text Message. If you’ve been listening to this show since we re-launched in March to focus only on migration, I think, like me, you would have started to see that there is no one type of migration story. Yes, there are two large groups of migrants — people going abroad to work and oth...

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Nepal Now: Right Now! Feedback from a sharp-eyed listener, Nepali youth in Hong Kong

Nepal Now: On the move - June 19, 2024 04:15 - 6 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Thank you to listener Trilok for pointing out a typo that was on the Nepal Now webpage for almost 4 years, from episode #1. I'm embarrassed but grateful to his sharp eyes.   Please keep the feedback coming, via LinkedIn, as Trilok did, or at the other social channels li...

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Nepal Now: Right Now! Feedback from a sharp-eyed listener, Nepali youth in Hong Kong

Nepal Now: On the move - June 19, 2024 04:15 - 6 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Thank you to listener Trilok for pointing out a typo that was on the Nepal Now webpage for almost 4 years, from episode #1. I'm embarrassed but grateful to his sharp eyes.   Please keep the feedback coming, via LinkedIn, as Trilok did, or at the other social channels li...

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Migrant workers find love amidst struggles

Nepal Now: On the move - June 11, 2024 14:15 - 23 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Today we’re back with another personal story—two in fact: those of Raj and Sunita. I gotta admit, what I like about this story is the romance element, which is something we haven’t heard from other guests so far. What they told us, when we recorded in the ACORAB studio i...

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Migrant workers find love amidst struggles

Nepal Now: On the move - June 11, 2024 14:15 - 23 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Today we’re back with another personal story—two in fact: those of Raj and Sunita. I gotta admit, what I like about this story is the romance element, which is something we haven’t heard from other guests so far. What they told us, when we recorded in the ACORAB studio i...

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Women migrant workers from Nepal: Lift the ban and get positive

Nepal Now: On the move - May 28, 2024 03:15 - 34 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Today we’re taking a step back from the personal stories we’ve been hearing to get some perspective on migration and Nepal. Specifically, we’re talking about women who leave the country to work, including why a ban on them migrating as domestic workers is not a good idea...

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Women migrant workers from Nepal: Lift the ban and get positive

Nepal Now: On the move - May 28, 2024 03:15 - 34 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Today we’re taking a step back from the personal stories we’ve been hearing to get some perspective on migration and Nepal. Specifically, we’re talking about women who leave the country to work, including why a ban on them migrating as domestic workers is not a good idea...

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Feedback: 'Nepal wouldn’t have progressed if migration hadn’t happened'

Nepal Now: On the move - May 22, 2024 02:15 - 7 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Hi everyone, this is Marty. I got a really interesting and positive email about our last interview with Soham, who first moved to the US when he was 17, a couple of decades ago, and he's been going back and forth ever since. The email was from Jennifer, and I want to r...

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Feedback: 'Nepal wouldn’t have progressed if migration hadn’t happened'

Nepal Now: On the move - May 22, 2024 02:15 - 7 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Hi everyone, this is Marty. I got a really interesting and positive email about our last interview with Soham, who first moved to the US when he was 17, a couple of decades ago, and he's been going back and forth ever since. The email was from Jennifer, and I want to r...

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A nomad from Nepal

Nepal Now: On the move - May 14, 2024 02:15 - 32 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Today we’re speaking with Soham Dhakal, who first travelled to the US when he was 17 and has been back and forth between the two countries so many times he considers himself a nomad. But before we get to Soham’s story I want to correct something I said last week. Our new...

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A nomad from Nepal

Nepal Now: On the move - May 14, 2024 02:15 - 32 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Today we’re speaking with Soham Dhakal, who first travelled to the US when he was 17 and has been back and forth between the two countries so many times he considers himself a nomad. But before we get to Soham’s story I want to correct something I said last week. Our new...

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Right Now! 'Kafala' system still shackling women migrants working in Gulf countries; send us a text

Nepal Now: On the move - May 07, 2024 12:15 - 4 minutes
Send us a Text Message. If you listen to the show on Buzzsprout, which happens to be the platform I use to host the podcast also, you can now send me a text message directly from the website. So what you do is, in the description of each episode, at the very top left, you'll see a link that say...

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Right Now! 'Kafala' system still shackling women migrants working in Gulf countries; send us a text

Nepal Now: On the move - May 07, 2024 12:15 - 4 minutes
Send us a Text Message. If you listen to the show on Buzzsprout, which happens to be the platform I use to host the podcast also, you can now send me a text message directly from the website. So what you do is, in the description of each episode, at the very top left, you'll see a link that say...

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"I'm moving for my future": From Nepal to Canada

Nepal Now: On the move - May 01, 2024 02:15 - 33 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Aayush Pokharel will soon be graduating from his diploma programme in Canada, and so his search for a full-time job has already started. He’ll have three years to work in the country before leaving or applying for permanent residency. For now he says he wants to come bac...

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"I'm moving for my future": From Nepal to Canada

Nepal Now: On the move - May 01, 2024 02:15 - 33 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Aayush Pokharel will soon be graduating from his diploma programme in Canada, and so his search for a full-time job has already started. He’ll have three years to work in the country before leaving or applying for permanent residency. For now he says he wants to come bac...

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Right Now! A migrant couple aims for South Korea; protests over Nepalis stuck in Russia

Nepal Now: On the move - April 23, 2024 14:15 - 4 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Nepal Now: Right Now, a weekly micro-episode where we share news about the show and what's happening in migration as it affects Nepal. First, I want to give a shout out to listener Sikhar for his persistence. He wrote and suggested a guest to me. And somehow...

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Right Now! A migrant couple aims for South Korea; protests over Nepalis stuck in Russia

Nepal Now: On the move - April 23, 2024 14:15 - 4 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Nepal Now: Right Now, a weekly micro-episode where we share news about the show and what's happening in migration as it affects Nepal. First, I want to give a shout out to listener Sikhar for his persistence. He wrote and suggested a guest to me. And somehow...

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Giving up a career abroad to return home not always a smooth transition

Nepal Now: On the move - April 16, 2024 11:15 - 30 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Hi everyone. I’m Marty Logan. Thank you for clicking on this episode of Nepal Now: On the Move, where we speak with some of the huge number of people leaving – and occasionally returning – to this country wedged between India and China. Bharat Adhikari is another forme...

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Giving up a career abroad to return home not always a smooth transition

Nepal Now: On the move - April 16, 2024 11:15 - 30 minutes
Send us a Text Message. Hi everyone. I’m Marty Logan. Thank you for clicking on this episode of Nepal Now: On the Move, where we speak with some of the huge number of people leaving – and occasionally returning – to this country wedged between India and China. Bharat Adhikari is another forme...

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Nepal Now: Right Now, #1

Nepal Now: On the move - April 09, 2024 06:15 - 5 minutes
This is the first episode of our new micro-series: Nepal Now: Right Now. These pieces will fill the gap between regular full episodes of the show, which are published every two weeks. About 5 minutes long, they will be published on alternate weeks and will focus on past and upcoming episodes —...

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Nepal Now, Right Now: New micro-episodes

Nepal Now: On the move - April 09, 2024 06:15 - 5 minutes
Send us a Text Message. This is the first episode of our new micro-series: Nepal Now: Right Now. These pieces will fill the gap between regular full episodes of the show, which are published every two weeks. About 5 minutes long, they will be published on alternate weeks and will focus on pas...

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Nepal Now: Right Now, #1

Nepal Now: On the move - April 09, 2024 06:15 - 5 minutes
This is the first episode of our new micro-series: Nepal Now: Right Now. These pieces will fill the gap between regular full episodes of the show, which are published every two weeks. About 5 minutes long, they will be published on alternate weeks and will focus on past and upcoming episodes —...

Nepal Now: On the move artwork

Nepal Now, Right Now: New micro-episodes

Nepal Now: On the move - April 09, 2024 06:15 - 5 minutes
Send us a Text Message. This is the first episode of our new micro-series: Nepal Now: Right Now. These pieces will fill the gap between regular full episodes of the show, which are published every two weeks. About 5 minutes long, they will be published on alternate weeks and will focus on pas...