Dr. Richard Fuisz, the retired CIA operative, reached into his jacket pocket and produced a brand new Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera. “Here, Michael, this is for you...

“Michael has a very generous present for you, general,” U.S. Ambassador Alaina Teplitz said to General Rajendra Chettri, the chief of the Nepalese Army, “the...

“Mr. Kobold is a friend of the president, please give him an all access pass,” Bill Clinton’s aide said to the security officer, matter-of-factly. It was Feb...

“This is excellent,” wrote Sam Pitroda, the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, the international outreach body of Rahul Gandhi’s Indian National Congress ...

Prithivi Pande is without equal in the lofty worlds of investment banking, art-collecting and politics. The self-made tycoon is the driving force behind a gr...

In order to improve his news conglomerate’s public image, Kantipur's owner, Kailash Sirohiya, hired Anup Kaphle as the Kathmandu Post’s editor-in-chief in Au...

July 4, 2019 “America sucks,” Professor Jack Roseman said, smiling broadly, “it sucks, but I always remind everyone that it’s still by far the best place on ...

On July 1, 2019, the Nepal national chapter of Rotary International inducted Kiran Lal Shrestha as it’s new governor of district 3209. In this capacity, Kira...

Gautam “G2” Rana was born into a life of immense privilege. The grandson of the last hereditary prime minister of Nepal, G2 purported to have been raised ins...

In 2012, after the headline-grabbing Everest summit rock controversy had simmered down, I discovered that Namgel and Thundu Sherpa did not possess the requis...

“Namaste Michael, I have been following you and your brand since my childhood days,” Kamal BK wrote via Facebook messenger. “I urge you to bring the fire eng...

Five days after publishing Part One of The Nepal Controversies, and after I contacted the Kathmandu Post's editor-in-chief, Anup Kaphle, directly and via th...

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In December of 2018, the biggest English-language newspaper in Nepal, the Kathmandu Post, published the first of six front-page, "above-the-fold" articles ab...

Six Years after James Gandolfini died in Rome, the Fire Truck Expedition carries on the great actor's spirit. James Gandolfini was more than just the most po...

The proverb "we start digging the well when we see the smoke on the roof," sums up the laissez faire attitude of the Nepalese people. Yet it isn't this fatal...

A project as ambitious as the fire truck expedition cannot be successful without a team of very talented and dedicated professionals. When the idea of the fi...

The Kathmandu Post is run by a former Washington Post writer. When he moved to Nepal, Anup Kaphle forgot the rules of professional journalism in America. Sho...