Kathmandu International Film Festival

Last week in Kathmandu film fans and film makers gathered for the annual Kathmandu International Film Festival. For the last eight years, the festival has attracted not only filmmakers, film enthusiasts, and critics, but also scholars, journalists, activists, and mountaineers. It is the interest of this creative and intellectual community that has sustained KIMFF and placed Kathmandu Valley on the map of international film festivals. The festival is organised by the Himal Association and the KIMFF started as a non-competitive, biennial festival in 2000. This event was the sixth festival. http://www.kimff.org/index.php

The climate change blame game

An interesting article on climate change and Nepal.

A delay in helping Nepal to prepare a crucial plan to adapt to climate change has led to accusations between two international organisations that they are not doing enough to get the job done in many developing countries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7775518.stm

Truro dentist returns from epic trip to Nepal

A Truro dentist has described his "amazing experience" in a remote and primitive village in Nepal, when patients queued up to have their teeth examined and treated for the first time in their lives. Mark was in a group of five dentists based for ten days at Nalang, in Nepal's Dharding province. His "surgery" was an unheated school classroom and his dentist's chair was a pupil's wooden chair, made higher with a base of bricks. http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/truro/3951422.Truro_dentist_returns_from_epic_trip_to_Nepal/

UN provides $3m for rural communities in Nepal

The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated 3 million U.S. dollars to assist rural communities in Nepal, according to a release issued by the UN body on Thursday. In 2008, Nepal received a total of 12.6 million dollars from the CERF in four different allocations to provide humanitarian assistance in response to the Koshi floods, flooding and landslides in the mid and far-western regions, the food crisis, and other urgent humanitarian needs. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/04/content_10457224.htm