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Press articles (used media abbreviations)

Manpower company submits false documents, by Shyamsundar Shashi (kp 22/07/2008)

Nepali overseas workers double in five years, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 21/07/2008)

Ensuring Safe Migration, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn 20/07/2008)

Engineers ditch DoR for greener pastures (kp 19/07/2008)

3 travel agents bid to fly 6,586 Nepali workers to SKorea (kp 17/07/2008)

Health help-desk for foreign employment seekers soon (ht 14/07/2008)

Home thoughts from transit: How the failure of education fuels the manpower market, by CK Lal (nt 11/07/2008)

Tackling Foreign Job Issues, by Anjan Shakya (rn 06/07/2008)

Manpower agencies shun govt offer (kp 03/07/2008)

Look farther afield (kp 02/07/2008)

Lack of skills limits Nepali workers’ overseas prospects, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 01/07/2008)

22.44pc rise in overseas job seekers (kp 27/06/2008)

22 manpower agencies sealed (kp 21/06/2008)

Youth Unemployment: Huge Expectations, by Keshab Poudel (sp 20/06/2008)

Employment agents demand equal opportunity (kp 19/06/2008)

Anti-graft body to probe irregularities in labour export (ht 18/06/2008)

Qatar is destination of first choice for Nepali workers, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 10/06/2008)

Lure for foreign employment: Women leaving for riskier jobs abroad (kp 08/06/2008)

Youths of Nepal and the Employment Scenario in a Civil Society, by Prem Raman Uprety (tg 04/06/2008)

New action plan proposed to cut jobless rate (kp 04/06/2008)

Action sought against manpower agency, by Shyamsundar Shashi (kp 30/05/2008)

Overseas jobs jump 24pc (kp 30/05/2008)

6,593 qualified apply for Korean jobs (kp 28/05/2008)

Japan to take in Nepali workers, by Prabhakat Ghimire (kp 25/05/2008), Destination Japan (kp 26/05/2008)

Manpower issues, by Sajag Karki (kp 24/05/2008)

Women workers’ lot gloomy: study (kp 16/05/2008), More young women at work: Report (ht 16/05/2008)

Reform labor laws, by Prem Khanal (kp 16/05/2008)

Foreign employment sector sees upward trend (nn 10/05/2008)

Nepali workers take great leap outward (kp 29/04/2008), Labour export, remittance and foreign policy, by Sunil Poudyal (ht 29/04/2008)

64 Nepali workers deported in 3 months (kp 23/04/2008)

Doctors, engineers new Lahures, says Pampha Bhusal (ht 06/04/2008)

Qatar, UAE main magnets for Nepali labor (kp 27/03/2008)

Govt okays sending workers to Japan (kp 08/03/2008)

Govt to send jobless youths to villages (ht 03/03/2008)

Nepali women in Lebanon live horrid lives, by Yuvraj Acharya (kp 02/03/2008)

Most women migrant workers ignorant of rights (kp 29/02/2008)

Nepalis rushing abroad to work in greater numbers (kp 22/02/2008)

Foreign job seeker needs to chip in with Rs 500 (kp 21/02/2008)

Nepal's Exodus for Foreign Employment: Some 600 leave the country daily for foreign employment, by Keshar Kumar Lamgade (Nepal Monitor 13/02/2008)

‘Our priority is to ensure the safety of our workers’, interview with Ramesh Lekhak, Minister for Labour and Transport (kp 04/02/2008)

Foreign Employment and need for a Refined Foreign policy, by Anjan Shakya (tg 30/01/2008)

Qatar now favorite labor destination: 24pc more Nepalis seek work abroad in 2007/08 FY (kp 24/01/2008)

4th Asian Labor Ministers' Conference: Nepal to fight for migrant workers' safety, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 18/01/2008)

Call center workers a disillusioned lot, by Baburam Kharel (kp 11/01/2008)

Karnali employment plan ‘a total failure’ (kp 08/01/2008)

Low pay forcing workers to turn illegal, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 06/01/2008)

MoFA help sought to check illegal labor exit (kp 06/01/2008)

754 Nepali workers died abroad in 2007, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 05/01/2008)

Departures to foreign pastures up 23 pc (kp 26/12/2007), The best are leaving, by Shirish Ranabhat (kp 26/12/2007), ‘Put foreign employment sector in order' (kp 26/12/2007)

Learning to drive a fad among foreign job aspirants, by Lila Ballav Ghimire (kp 25/12/2007)

‘Pay Rs 125,000 at most for jobs in South Korea’ (kp 22/12/2007)

The money is flowing in, by Narayan Manandhar (kp 04/12/2007)

Foreign jobseekers up 26pc (kp 01/12/2007)

Nepal looks Down Under for foreign jobs, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 16/11/2007)

Foreign employment soars by 26 percent (kp 10/11/2007)

Precautions for Nepali Women in Foreign Employment, by Mohan Nepali (Scoop 05/11/2007)

Reducing growing unemployment problem, by Khilendra Basnyat (kp 19/10/2007)

Overseas job seekers up by 9.5pc (kp 04/10/2007), Overseas jobs (kp 05/10/29007)

Concern over plight of migrant workers (kp 27/09/2007)

Cutting out middlemen for foreign jobs still elusive (kp 15/09/2007)

Nepal proposes co-operation with IOM (kp 07/09/2007)

Nepal losing thousands of job offers for skilled workers (kp 06/09/2007)

Foreign Employment: Women's Hardships (sp 31/08/2007)

Foreign job seekers rise by 16 pc (kp 28/08/2007)

EPS office for Korean jobs this week (kp 24/08/2007)

Nepalese labour shortage hits Himachal apple harvest (Monster and Critics, 19/08/2007)

Nepal to sign migration accord (kp 14/08/2007)

‘Seek alternative to remittance’ (kp 09/08/2007)

Overseas employment sees a whopping 21 percent rise (nn 02/08/2007), Foreign employment climbs by 12.5 pc (kp 02/08/2007)

561 youths leave for foreign job daily (kp 30/07/2007)

NAFEA against hike in cash deposit (kp 19/07/2007)

Forged certificates add to Nepali workers' plight, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 12/07/2007)

S Korea invites Nepal for labor pact (kp 07/07/2007)

Nepal, Malaysia finalize labor MoU, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 06/07/2007)

Nepal to ink labor pact with UAE, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 30/06/2007), Nepal and UAE sign labour pact (nn 03/07/2007), Nepal signs labor pact with UAE, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 04/07/2007), Labor pact (kp 05/07/2007), Nepal-UAE labor pact to cut recruitment cost (kp 05/07/2007)

Earnings of overseas workers dwindle, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 28/06/2007)

Seven percent growth in foreign employment (nn 27/06/2007), Overseas jobs see some rise (kp 27/06/2007)

Job hopes in Karnali still unmet, by J Pandey (kp 27/06/2007)

Manpower agencies!, by Dhananjay Shah (kp 26/06/2007)

Nepal to sign labor pact with Malaysia, UAE (kp 22/06/2007)

Additional state support for Nepali workers soon, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 21/06/2007)

State Minister Lekhak meets Indian and Qatari counterparts (nn 12/06/2007)

Labour MoU with UAE to be signed in July (nn 10/06/2007)

Foreign employment: Recovery rate of swindled money low, by Prabhakar Ghimire (kp 09/06/2007)

Lekhak stresses on protecting workers' rights (nn 07/06/2007)

Locals have no option but hazardous foreign jobs, by Bhim Ghimire (kp 05/06/2007)

Safe migration of women demanded (samn 01/06/2007)

Meager rise in overseas employment (kp 30/05/2007)

Foreign job seeker swindled (kp 29/05/2007)

Manpower entrepreneurs demand security (nn 15/05/2007)

Govt, manpower agency nexus suspected, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 09/05/2007)

Nepal may lose labour quota for 2007 (samn 09/05/2007)

Labor shortage hits construction sector (kp 07/05/2007)

Israel drawing more women (samn 06/05/2007)

Amendment in foreign labor act proposed (kp 01/05/2007)

118 Nepalis working as bonded labourers in Malaysia (nn 30/04/2007), 118 Nepali bonded laborers in Malaysia, by Binod Bhandari (kp 30/04/2007)

Victims seek Rs 152 million compensation (kp 25/04/2007)

136,805 leave for foreign jobs (kp 21/04/2007)

Jordan suitable destination for work (samn 21/04/2007)

States to uphold women worker rights (kp 20/04/2007)

Employment package for Karnali residents launched (kp 12/04/2007)

Woman migrant workers getting bag deal (samn 08/04/2007)

Good jobs chase sound MBAs, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 29/03/2007)

Labor export falls by up to 30 pc (kp 22/03/2007)

Govt to handle employment procedure for Korea: Lekhak (nn 13/03/2007), Nepal set to sign labor pact with S Korea, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 13/03/2007)

Employment package to relieve Karnali jobless, ba Rupak D Sharma (kp 24/02/2007)

Education and employment, by Lok Nath Bhusal (kp 23/02/2007)

Social security of home-based workers stressed (kp 21/02/2007)

Blacklisted firms continue ‘illegal recruitment’ from Nepal (Gulf Times 16/02/2007)

8 Sankhuwasabha youths die abroad (kp 14/02/2007)

Labor export up by 12 percent (kp 14/02/2007)

Labor market distortions, by Narayan Manandhar (kp 08/02/2007)

Job aspirants padlock Moondrops (kp 02/02/2007)

Manpower agencies closed in protest (kp 01/02/2007)

Foreign employment in South Korea, by Rajendra Sigdel (kp 31/01/2007)

Rs 102.62m demanded by fraud victims (kp 27/01/2007)

Foreign employment declines by 5 pc (kp 19/01/2007)

Labor market distortion, by Narayan Manandhar (kp 12/01/2007), see also part 2 (26/01/2007)

2006 saw rise in foreign employment (kp 04/01/2007)

Manpower fraud cases up by 24 pc (kp 30/12/2006)

Nepal's labor export declines by 5.5% (samn 24/12/2006)

Mandatory insurance for overseas Nepalese workers (Peninsula 24/12/2006)

Manpower agencies end agitation (kp 13/12/2006)

Paradoxes of Nepali labor policy, by Narayan Manandhar (kp 12/12/2006)

Job creation must to avert conflict: Khetan (kp 09/12/2006), Checking unemployment, by Girish P Pant (kp 09/12/2006)

Allow women workers to Gulf: Task force (kp 08/12/2006), Over 9 percent of overseas workers are women (nn 09/12/2006)

Fraud cases increase (kp 06/12/2006)

Hundreds foreign-bound youths duped, stranded in Delhi (kp 30/11/2006)

CBS to survey employment situation (samn 29/11/2006)

SAC questions state minister, officials on recruitment process of NT, NEA (nn 28/11/2006)

Complaints against manpower agencies increase (kp 14/11/2006)

Foreign employment bill tabled at House (kp 09/11/2006)

Resources crunch hampers Labor Office (kp 05/11/2006)

Women domestics to be allowed in Gulf region (kp 02/11/2006)

Nepal to request labor source country status (kp 02/11/2006)

Foreign employment up by 15 pc (kp 27/10/2006)

Great Strides: Foreign employment is coming up as the fastest growing and most lucrative sector of national economy (sp 13/10/2006)

Foreign employment up by 25 percent (kp 29/09/2006)

Cabinet endorses foreign employment bill (kp 28/09/2006)

Shape up foreign employment, by Amod Domzone Lama (kp 20/09/2006)

‘Lumbini Overseas evaded Rs 208m in taxes’ (kp 19/09/2006)

Govt keen to sign labor agreements (kp 16/09/2006)

Foreign employment rises by 25 percent (kp 06/09/2006)

South Korea exploits migrant workers: AI (nn 17/08/2006)

Freelance agents swindle Rs 158m (kp 16/08/2006)

Labor export through formal channel stressed (kp 12/08/2006)

Govt to relax grip on foreign employment, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 05/08/2006)

Reversing 'Lahure' legacy in 'New Nepal'? by Surendra Phuyal (kp 02/08/2006)

Nepalis stranded in Dubai (nn 01/08/2006)

1,500 Nepali women detained in Lebanon (samn 30/07/2006)

Govt bans labour export to Labanon, Israel (nn 26/07/2006)

Govt to form foreign employment department (kp 26/07/2006), Govt mulls new foreign employment law (samn 26/07/2006)

Foreign employment up by 29 pc (kp 25/07/2006)

‘Automation may reduce jobs for unskilled’ (kp 23/07/2006)

Manage foreign employment: Experts (nn 22/07/2006)

‘Revoke 2 pc service charge’ (kp 19/07/2006)

Foreign employment entrepreneurs warn to send workers via India (nn 19/07/2006)

Nepal likely labor source for S Korea (kp 14/07/2006)

Victims demand Rs 142m as compensation (kp 06/07/2006)

Go ahead but with conditions: Government to Moondrops, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 05/07/2006)

Foreign employment bucks the trend (kp 27/06/2006)

Korean employer refuses to drop Moondrops (kp 22/06/2006), Korean puzzle (kp 23/06/2006)

Over 1,500 Nepalis stranded in Afghanistan, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 17/06/2006)

‘Govt move weakens foreign job trade’ (samn 14/06/2006)

Job seekers cheated of Rs 5.1m (kp 08/06/2006)

Government decides to act on sending workers to South Korea (nn 06/06/2006), Minister intervenes in Moondrops affair, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 06/06/2006), Govt reinvents itself as manpower agency (samn 06/06/2006), Minister think twice: S Korean Employment, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 10/06/2006)

‘Acknowledging HBWs is providing dignity to people’ (kp 29/05/2006)

Fraud agents swindle Rs 122m Manpower Irregularity (kp 20/05/2006)

Sit-in against Moondrops, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 09/05/2006), NAEFA accuses govt. officials involvement in Moondrops scam (nn 10/05/2006)

Foreign employment increases by 44.9 percent (nn 04/05/2006), Foreign employment up by 44 pc (kp 04/05/2006)

Fraud cases continue (kp 14/04/2006)

UAE to provide more employment opportunities to Nepalis (nn 09/04/2006), UAE to absorb more Nepali workers (kp 11/04/2006)

Exhibition on foreign employment held (kp 06/04/2006)

500 Nepalis a day head abroad for jobs, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 30/03/2006)

Qatar to be choice labor destination (kp 25/03/2006)

Govt to prioritize foreign employment (kp 22/03/2006)

Manpower Agency’s Illegal Deal Revealed; Sends 100 Nepalese Workers to Iraq (nln 13/03/2006)

Backward groups may be sidelined: Targeted Loan Program (kp 11/03/2006)

Foreign employment up 41 percent (nn 03/03/2006), Foreign employment shoots up by 41 pc (kp 03/03/2006)

MoLTM cautions foreign job seekers (nn 01/03/2006)

A unique uncle: A dear uncle recently returned from Japan and told me his bittersweet tale, by Shradha Ghale (nt 24/02/2006)

As Nepal economy weakens, one export grows: people (Channel News Asia 29/01/2006)

Manpower agencies turn to women: Sent for factory work, Nepali women end up as domestics in Malaysia, by Netra KC (nt 27/01/2006)

Awareness campaigns needed to reduce fraud (kp 25/01/2006)

Government amending laws related to foreign employment (nn 24/01/2006)

Foreign employment: Give it its due, by Amod Domzon Lama (kp 22/01/2006)

Robust growth in foreign employment (kp 20/01/2006)

300 Nepalis stranded in Amman (nn 16/01/2006)

MoLTM asks foreign jobseekers not to travel in visit visas (nn 13/01/2006)

Govt unable to meet demand for YSP (kp 04/01/2006)

Shining Input: Even though they constitute only six percent of total migrant workforce, Nepalese women contribute 11 percent of the total remittances, by Sanjaya Dhakal (sp 30/12/2005)

23,000 leave Nepal in one month (Peninsula 29/12/2005)

Govt to levy VAT on manpower agencies (samn 28/12/2005)

Government to tighten measures of sending labourers abroad (nn 26/12/2005)

Overseas employment (kp 22/12/2005)

Nepal Earns More Than US$14 Million Remittance Weekly (Bernama 20/12/2005)

Manpower agents to Iraq arrested (kp 20/12/2005), Two arrested in Nepal over Iraq job scam (wi 20/12/2005)

Role of women important in generating remittance (nn 19/12/2005)

Foreign employment jumps by 51 pc (kp 07/12/2005)

Manpower fraud cases down (kp 03/12/2005)

First lot of women workers for Malaysia (kp 30/11/2005)

Meet on migrant workers' rights held (samn 26/11/2005)

Foreign employment: Skilled workers in short supply (kp 26/11/2005)

Foreign employment up by nearly 50 percent (nn 27/10/2005), Foreign employment up by 46pc (kp 27/10/2005) [There is no economic basis in a country that is terrorized by Maoist insurgents and royal autocrats!]

Kargil jobs lure Nepalis, by Chitranga Thapa (kp 19/10/2005)

Korea issues 200 labor quota (kp 10/10/2005)

Foreign employment sector Govt for autonomous coordinating body (kp 08/10/2005)

40 duped Nepalis stranded in Mumbai (kp 08/10/2005)

10pc of foreign jobs reserved for targeted group (kp 22/09/2005), Foreign jobs (kp 23/09/2005)

Nepal's only industry, by Marty Logan (at 20/09/2005)

Workers' interest (kp 14/09/2005)

Foreign employment sector: Self-regulatory code recommended (kp 11/09/2005)

Nepali women & foreign employment, by L B Thapa (kp 28/08/2005)

Diplomatic missions urged to protect workers’ rights (kp 19/08/2005)

Nepali workers (kp 13/08/2005)

Complaints against manpower agencies decline (kp 11/08/2005)

Unemployment; barrier to national development, by Bimal Gautam (tg 10/08/2005)

Apples ripe in India, Nepali workers migrate, by Chitrang Thapa (kp 28/07/2005)

Nepali manpower mafia on the prowl in India, by Surendra Phuyal (kp 23/07/2005)

Labour export up by over 50 per cent (samn 21/07/2005)

Foreign employment rises by 28pc (kp 08/07/2005)

Govt opens up Malaysia labor market for women (kp 25/06/2005

Experts urge for quality trainings (kp 19/06/2005)

Action against 34 manpower agencies (kp 18/06/2005)

More countries to import Nepali workers (kp 15/06/2005)

Foreign Employment Prospects, by Nirmal Gurung (rn 11/06/2005)

Foreign Employment: Boon And Bane, by Keshab Poudel (sp 10/06/2005)

Foreign employment up by 25pc (kp 28/95/2005)

S.K. Labor Market to Make Way For Nepalese: South Korea, Nepal end four-month deadlock on labor quotas, by Rupesh Silwal (Ohmy News 23/05/2005)

Indian agents duping Nepali job seekers, by Bishnu Budhathoki (kp 25/04/2005)

Foreign employment up by 25 pc (kp 24/04/2005)

Employment agencies told to use English (kp 30/01/2005), Right move (kp 31/01/2005)

Malaysia to bar Nepali workers (kp 29/01/2005), Malaysia stops visas to Nepali workers, by Chandra Shekhar Adhikari (rn 31/01/2005)

Deposit hiked to discourage phony manpower companies, by Chandra Shekhar Adhikari (rn 28/01/2005)

Qatari Labor Act change signals possible cost cuts (kp 28/01/2005)

Demand for female workers on rise abroad (rn 23/01/2005)

Labour Market (rn 23/01/2005)

Foreign Employment: Need For Streamlining It, by Uttam Maharjan (rn 22/01/2005)

Support of Remittance, by Anup Bhandari (tg 19/01/2005)

Government bans MAMCA and GAMCA, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 19/01/2005), MAMCA, GAMCA register with govt, by Rupak D Sharma (kp 20/01/2005)

Foreign Employment: Advantages & Challenges, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn 18/01/2005), Foreign Labour (rn 19/01/2005)

Manpower Agencies (rn 13/01/2005)

For older links see archive

Background

Employment Promotion Commission, HMG