PRESS VEHICLE ATTACKED IN JHAPA Kathmandu, 21 May: An unruly mass hurled stones at a vehicle belonging to the Annapurna Post daily on Monday morning, smashing the windscreen of the vehicle and injuring the driver, RSS reports Bhadrapur.. The vehicle (Ko 1 Cha 7007) carrying the newspaper copies from Biratnagar and heading towards Birtamod, Jhapa came under attack at Kamalpul in local Topgachhi at 5:30 in the morning, police said. Driver Jit Bahadur Shrestha sustained injuries in his head and is currently undergoing treatment at Surunga. Similarly, stones were also pelted at a vehicle carrying copies of Kantipur daily at about the same time. Meanwhile, an unidentified person set a truck (Na 1 Kha 748) on fire at Kerkha in Jhapa district on Sunday evening, completely destroying the vehicle, police said. nnnn WAN OPERATIONAL Kathmandu, 21 May: As part of customs modernization, Department of Customs, under the Ministry of Finance has implemented a Wide Area Network (WAN) which has come into operation, The Rising Nepal reports. This will enhance the use of Automatic System of Customs Data (ASYCUDA) by allowing exchange of data between the Department of Customs (DOC) and Customs offices. Talking to The Rising Nepal, Ramesh Paudel, Director at Department of Customs, said that three remote offices of the Department of Customs (DoC) in Tatopani, Biratnagar and Birgunj have been connected to the central office in Tripushwor via high bandwidth fiber connectivity. Each of these remote sites are equipped with multiple high end PTZ cameras which can be panned, tilted and zoomed to view any part of the location. Paudel said the best part about this project is, all the footage of these cameras are live streamed, live broadcasted, in DoC’s Tripushwor control room via fiber connectivity. And from the control room all the cameras can be controlled remotely. The authorized personal in Tripushwor office can view any part of the DoC’s remote office where the system is fitted with the help of a joystick, he said. Further, all the footage of all the cameras are stored for few days in a server installed in all the remote location. So, if anyone wished to view past footage of last few days to check anything, this can also be done. NEAT Project, USAID, has implemented a remote monitoring project, which is probably the first of its kind project to be implemented by any government sector in Nepal. Prism International Private Limited had installed, trained the DoC staff and commissioned all the IT networking equipment, network connectivity and power backup system. nnnn