Swine flu suspect quarantined

Kathmandu, 21 May: The special health desk at the Tribhuvan International Airport today [Wednesday] quarantined a UAE national, who entered Nepal via India, over fears that she has been infected with swine flu virus, the global pandemic, The Himalayan Times reports.
This is the second suspected case of the deadly flu in the country since the disease was detected in Mexico last month.

(Note: China has put health officials along Nepal-Tibet border, especially at Tatopani entry point on high alert, for health checks of Nepalis and foreigners, after a Italian woman suspected of carrying for virus that causes flu entered Tibet via Nepal.)
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264 pillars along Nepal-India border missing

Kathmandu, 21 May: The legislature-parliament, international relations and human rights committee said that it was found, in course of its on-site visit in Bara, that Nepali territory was encroached from Indian side, RSS reports.
At a press conference organized here today [in Kathmandu Wednesday], it was informed that of the total 685 border pillars in the district, some 264 were found lost.
The information was based on the facts found from the on-site visit on May 17-18 by the committee led by CA member Nabindra Raj Joshi.
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“Although Qiu [Chinese ambassador] was careful not to name names [in meeting with Girija] , he was not so cryptic as to leave us in any doubt about his government’s disdain for the remote-control wielders so comfortable ensconced across the southern border.”

(Maila Baje, People’s Review, 21 May)
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