DDC:
A Dairy Dealer Or Developer?, by Rameshwar Baral (rn
08/12/2023)
Digital
Literacy for Entrepreneurs launched to boost
international market access and quality for small
businesses, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 04/12/2023)
Empowering
entrepreneurs : It’s important to offer lower taxes or
tax breaks to support the growth of MSMEs, by
Nischal Dhungel and Surya Kiran Yadav (kp 03/12/2023)
Foreign
investment pledges up 89 percent : The sudden rise in
investment commitments was due to two large-scale
projects proposed by South Korean investors, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 30/11/2023)
Boutiques
in Kupondole lose shine as recession bites : The decline
in disposable incomes of the people, mainly the middle
class, has dampened the demand for luxury clothing,
by Sarahna Khadka (kp 25/11/2023)
The
Entrepreneur’s Challenge: Navigating Nepal’s Business
Landscape : Foreign Direct Investment is essential to
Nepal's capital formation and investible resources, but
it is also important for the technology, skills, and
managerial and organizational techniques it brings with
it, by Sudeekshya Dwa (nlt 25/11/2023)
Tihar
flower sales reach Rs 240 million, Marking a Rs 200
million dip from last year (kh 24/11/2023)
FDI
commitment surged to Rs 22.08 billion during mid-July
and mid-November (rep 21/11/2023)
Exportpreneurship:
Why is it good for Nepal? “Exportpreneurship enables
Nepali youths to surmount the international trade by
leveraging export and entrepreneurship opportunities”,
by Rudra Parasad Ghimire (nlt 20/11/2023)
Low
income puts a damper on Tihar mood : There is a festive
crowd in the market, but the number of shopping bags has
declined, traders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
09/11/2023)
Exploring
the contract manufacturing landscape in Nepal, by
Marshal Rathour (ae 06/11/2023)
Officials
call for investment in tech sector in Nepal at the
London conference (nlt 02/11/2023)
Nepal’s
FDI Landscape: Issues and Solutions, by Mukesh
Khanal (rep 02/11/2023)
FinMin
Mahat talks about necessity of foreign investment in
Nepal (rep 01/11/2023)
Task
force for moratorium on cooperative registration and
service expansion : The International Monetary Fund says
a lack of reliable data on these institutions makes it
difficult to assess the level and severity of their risk
to the overall financial sector, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 01/11/2023)
Flower
tea getting popular among Nepali aficionados : Tea Amo
says it sells a range of flower, fruit and leaf teas
that can be consumed in the form of hot or iced tea,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 31/10/2023)
Women
entrepreneurs reveal success stories : These
businesswomen produce sanitary pads, make stuffed dolls
and run a dairy farm, by Sanju Paudel (kp
30/10/2023)
Hetauda
Cement Industry ceases production due to shortage of
coal (rep 30/10/2023)
Anti-dumping
duty may wipe out jute industry : The government has
dropped the jute industry from its priority list. The
golden fibre doesn’t look like it has a future in Nepal,
say insiders, by Binod Bhandari (kp 29/10/2023)
Gold
soars as war sends investors rushing to safety : Festive
gold sales were down by half this Dashain compared to
last year because people had less money to spend,
traders said, by Krishana Prasain (kp 28/10/2023)
Business
not happy with the IMF : The private sector accuses the
International Monetary Fund of interference in Nepal's
economic policy, by Ramesh Kumar (nt 20/10/2023)
Nepalis
have no money to spend on gold, say traders : Bad
economic times have made festival shoppers stingy, and
gold sales are down by half, by Krishana Prasain (kp
14/10/2023)
Dashain
goat sales to stay at last year’s level : Livestock
traders say they expect to sell 50,000 animals in
Kathmandu Valley this festival season, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 10/10/2023)
Why
deregulate Nepal’s fuel business : Deregulating the
petroleum industry and giving it to the private sector
will make the business competitive, ultimately
benefiting consumers, former secretary says, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 08/10/2023)
Govt
blacklists 20 underperforming companies (kh
03/10/2023)
Nepal's
industries depend on foreign workers: Experts (rep
01/10/2023) [How about the
targeted education of young Nepalis instead of sending
them into labour migration?]
Nepal’s
FDI stock rose 16 percent to Rs264.3 billion : In terms
of total FDI stock, India ranks top with Rs88.6 billion,
followed by China with Rs33.4 billion, according to the
report released by the central bank (kp 28/09/2023),
Actual
net FDI inflow 36.2pc of total approval (ht
29/09/2023), FDI
Flows to Nepal: Recent trends and challenges, by
Sameer Bhattarai (ae 29/09/2023
Traders
flee as high interest rates and slow sales bite: There
are more than a dozen commercial complexes in Butwal,
and most of them are struggling to attract tenants,
by Sanju Paudel (kp 27/09/2023)
Govt
intensifies market monitoring targeting festivals,
by Laxman Kafle (rn 24/09/2023)
IT
is one of the fastest-growing industries in Nepal,
report says : Friendlier government policy would
encourage domestic companies to use locally developed
software, according to insiders, by Subin Adhikari
(kp 23/09/2023)
What
Ails Nepali Entrepreneurship?, by Mukash Khanal (rep
21/09/2023)
Dugar
Power and Tata Power Renewable Energy join hand to boost
renewable energy use in Nepal (rep 21/09/2023)
Price
of yarsagumba surges after China re-opens border :
Traders of Mugum Karmarong Rural Municipality in remote
western Nepal have started selling the harvest gathered
in May and June, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
20/09/2023)
FDI
worth Rs 5.88 billion pledged in the past one month
(rep 20/09/2023)
Asian
Paints Nepal building third plant in Hetauda : The new
plant is expected to come into operation within one and
a half years (kp 17/09/2023)
Govt
takes action against 150 shops ahead of festive season
(rep 16/09/2023)
Taskforce
submits report on reforms in cooperatives (ht
15/09/2023)
Factories
in Hetauda Industrial Estate in dire straits (rep
13/09/2023)
Karobar
app makes accounting easy for small businesses : The app
has been downloaded more than 100,000 times by small
firms and traders, by Subin Adhikari (kp 12/09/2023)
Dashain
is coming but traders not very hopeful : Businesses
large and small face declines in sales and profits
during economic slowdowns, experts say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 11/09/2023)
Automobile
industry faces formidable headwinds, by Sangay
Sherpa (ht 11/09/2023)
Startup
Summit 2023 concludes successfully (ht 10/09/2023)
KMC
cooperative crisis: Over 6,000 complaints filed amid
concerns of savings mismanagement (rep 07/09/2023)
Industry
registration and renewal fees increase in Karnali,
specific groups to get discounts (rep 06/09/2023)
Govt
blacklists 13 construction companies (kh 05/09/2023)
Government
makes more promises to help start-ups : Nearly a dozen
policies and programmes intended to support new firms
are gathering dust, analysts say, by Subin Adhikari
(kp 29/08/2023) [Empty ones?]
Nepali
woodworkers suffer as Indian carpenters swamp market :
Indian carpenters cross the border on bicycles early in
the morning and visit the under-construction houses,
hotels and corporate offices to make furniture items.
They then return home in the evening after finishing
their work, by Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 26/08/2023)
Simara
SEZ allows to operate 25 industries (rep 24/08/2023)
Multinationals
see profits fluctuate due to slowdown : The firms say
they are uncertain about the course consumer spending
will take in the days to come, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 20/08/2023)
Merchants
swat flies as customers stay home : According to
economists, 50 to 60 percent of the year’s sales happen
during the autumn festival season, by Subin Adhikari
(kp 18/08/2023)
Why
Are Nepali Cooperatives Facing Problems?, by Abin
Ojha (rn 12/08/2023)
Holding
Multinational Companies Accountable, by Dev Raj
Dahal (rn 05/08/2023)
Government,
victims of cooperatives ink seven-point deal :
As per the agreement, the cooperatives ministry
will start the process for the establishment of
the Deposit and Credit Guarantee Fund to secure
the savings of cooperative depositors (kp
04/08/2023)
Rethinking
Nepal’s e-commerce bill : Do all forms of
business practices require detailed regulation
on all aspects of their operation? Is such
regulation even required in the first place?,
by Anmol Purbey (nlt 03/08/2023), Imperative
of E-Commerce Legislation in Nepal, by Suman
Shiwakoti (rep 04/08/2023)
A
new US report questions investment climate in
Nepal (ae 31/07/2023)
Drift
to digital disrupts media business model : Nepal’s
advertising industry, advertisers and the media struggle
against headwind from online platforms, by Jharana
Khanal (nt 28/07/2023)
Insurance
companies’ business took a beating in FY 2022/23 (ae
27/07/2023)
Influencer
marketers leave celebrities behind : Businesses see
social media as an efficient way to advertise their
products and services, by Subin Adhikari (kp
27/07/2023)
Felt
association felicitates Thapa in its 17th anniversary,
by Pratik Ghimire (ae 26/07/2023)
Privatization:
A beacon of hope for redemption of Udaipur Cement : The
pain inflicted upon taxpayers by the Udaipur Cement
Industries’ inefficiency and mismanagement is a scar
that runs deep, by Sindhuj Thapa (nlt 25/07/2023)
Reckoning
61 years’ history of Janakpur Cigarette Factory (kh
24/07/2023)
Return
depositors’ savings (ae 14/07/2023), Victims
of various cooperatives stage protest at Maitighar
Mandala (Photo Feature) (rep 16/07/2023)
More
and more entrepreneurs quitting business and leaving for
foreign lands (rep 12/07/2023)
Hemp
bag craze spreads among Nepali youths : Locals in the
far-flung hills have been making clothes from hemp for
decades but hippies took it to the global level, by
Subin Adhikari (kp 09/07/2023)
NOC
reluctant to enforce automated pricing system even as it
earns Rs 2 bi)llion profit a month, by Dilip Paudel
(rep 07/07/2023)
Fast
fashion fever grips young Nepalis : Generation Z, also
called post-millennials (born between 1997 and 2010),
whose identity has been shaped by the digital age, have
the attitude of ‘buy now, throw later’, by Subin
Adhikari (kp 06/07/2023)
New
e-commerce law to ensure consumer protection : The draft
bill has proposed two to three years in jail and fines
ranging from Rs300,000 to Rs500,000 for errant sellers,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 05/07/2023)
Sastodeal
ties up with Myntra to promote business : Sastodeal will
take on the distinguished role of promoting and selling
offerings from Myntra's iconic House of Brands on its
platform (kp 05/07/2023)
NOC
makes profit in LPG after a year, earns Rs 1.6 billion
in just 15 days (rep 02/07/2023), Nepal
Oil not to cut prices despite profits : The state-owned
oil monopoly is making a fortnightly profit of about
Rs1.6 billion, officials say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 03/07/2023), NOC
slashes prices of petroleum products (kh 03/07/2023)
Crusher
industries stop supplying stones, gravel and sand
starting today (rep 01/07/2023)
Mind
your businesses : An open letter to FNCCI president
Chandra Prasad Dhakal calling for internal reforms,
by Bishal Thapa (kp 30/06/2023)
Surrogate
advertising thrives in legal vagueness : Firms also
organise musical events and youth festivals to promote
products whose advertising is banned by law, by
Subin Adhikari (kp 29/06/2023)
First
Half of FY 2022/23 sees decline in industrial loan
uptake (ae 29/06/2023)
Capacity
utilization of industries in Koshi Province takes a
beating (ae 27/06/2023)
Foreign
direct investment pledges down 25 percent : Experts have
attributed the steep drop to policy instability and
bureaucratic hassles, by Krishana Prasain (kp
22/06/2023)
‘The
central bank should regulate cooperatives’,
interview with Gauri Bahadur Karki, former chairperson of
the Special Court, who headed an inquiry commission formed
to look into troubled saving and credit cooperatives, on
the current crisis in the cooperatives (kp 19/06/2023)
Capacity
utilization of Lumbini Province industries decline
(ae 19/06/2023)
Sales
of cooling appliances soar as country swelters : More
Nepalis are buying air conditioners and coolers as
rising remittances put more money in their pockets,
traders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/06/2023)
Govt
to allow companies to be established with a minimal
authorized capital of just Rs 100 (rep 30/05/2023)
Nepal's
pride industry is under existential threat (ht
29/05/2023)
Government’s
start-up loans scheme loses its shine : The Department
of Industry said it had received 425 proposals. Among
them, half, or 213 applications were disqualified during
the first screening itself, by Krishana Prasain (kp
26/05/2023)
The
make-belief world of ‘Made in Nepal’ : To make the
policy work, policymakers must first identify the
products that we can produce at lower costs, by
Jagadish Prasad Bist (25/05/2023)
High-interest
rates and reduced power generation hit
hydropower companies’ profit (ae 25/05/2023)
Tackle
Problems Facing Cooperatives, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
23/05/2023)
Government
announces to reopen three closed PEs (ae 23/05/2023)
State
of private sector: Competitive private sector key for
Nepal to become middle-income country by 2030 (ae
22/05/2023)
Land
held by Tiger Palace Resort comes under government’s
scanner : The company owning the land, which has a
five-star casino resort in Bhairahawa, was found to have
exceeded the land ceiling as provisioned by the law,
by Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 20/05/2023)
Nepal’s
private sector accounts for 81.55 percent of GDP, study
shows (nlt 20/05/2023)
Government
announces to revive three defunct state-owned industries
(ae 19/05/2023)
Industrialists
lament unfavourable business environment : The Make in
Nepal initiative, jointly started by the government and
the private sector, had envisioned four targets to boost
the job market and the economy, but they all failed,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 17/05/2023)
Yatri
is the first domestically-manufactured vehicle to be
registered in Nepal, by Sajira Shrestha (rep
17/05/2023)
Changing
mindset, thinking big : Private sector groups need to
proactively pursue global benchmarks, norms and
practices, by Sujeev Shakya (kp 16/05/2023)
Govt
to end Covid-19 support to businesses (ae
10/05/2023)
Retailers
pulling down shutters as recession bites : ‘To Let’
notices have become a common sight as business
confidence has sunk to record lows, market observers say,
by Subin Adhikari (kp 10/05/2023)
Insurance
companies’ business growth contract to single digit
(ae 08/05/2023)
Business
registration and renewal sluggish (kh 06/04/2023)
Govt
implementing automated system for FDI approval, move
aimed at facilitating foreign investors : Govt takes the
move to facilitate foreign investors after FDI
commitment drops to one-third in the current fiscal year
(rep 04/05/2023)
NIA
to extend capital increment deadline by three months
(ae 30/04/2023)
Birgunj
Sugar Factory: Some Reminiscences, by Rameshwar
Baral (rn 28/04/2023)
Nepal-made
vehicles can be registered : Manufacturers will now not
be required to submit import notification letter (ht
28/04/2023)
63
percent of industries closed due to Covid (kh
28/04/2023)
Instil
Life Into Public Enterprises, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
25/04/2023)
Transport
entrepreneurs halt cargo along Araniko Highway (kh
23/04/2023)
Govt
forms study committee after Rs 700 billion investment
made in public enterprises failed to yield any returns
(rep 22/04/2023)
Nepal
all set to leapfrog in the IT sector, entrepreneurs say
(nlt 21/04/2023)
Investment
commitment worth around Rs 200 billion from 216
industries (rep 19/04/2023)
Foreign
investors repatriated cash dividends of Rs 13.77
billion in the first nine months of current FY (rep
18/04/2023)
Financing
small and growing businesses : Unlike
microfinance, venture debt unlocks an additional
source of funds for capital-starved MSMEs,
by Ashutosh Tiwari and Joseph Silvanus (kp
18/04/2023)
New
Year sales fall flat as consumers in saving mood
: Nepali consumers are holding onto their money
because of high interest rates and rising
prices, insiders said, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 14/04/2023)
Entrepreneurs
seek PM's intervention : They want ban on land
plotting lifted, interest rates reduced, among
other demands (ht 11/04/2023), PM,
FM assure private sector of lowering interest
rate (ae 12/04/2023), Market
determines the interest rates: Governor Adhikari
(ae 12/04/2023)
FBPW-Nepal
: Golden Jubilee (sp 07/04/2023)
Nepal
Oil accused of profiteering at the expense of
consumers : The state-owned oil monopoly is the
country’s largest enterprise with an annual
turnover of nearly Rs400 billion, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 04/04/2023)
Investment
and management : It has become harder to find
good management leaders who inspire younger
talents, by Sujeev Shakya (kp 04/4/2023)
Why
digital solutions matter for micro, small and
medium enterprises in Nepal, by Maria
Perdomo (nlt 03/04/20023)
Start-ups
doubt subsidised loan scheme will be applied :
Newly established businesses have been promised
loans of up to Rs2.5 million at 3 percent
interest, by Krishana Prasain (kp
02/04/2023)
Rattan
furniture industry seeks friendlier policy : Due
to the complex paperwork required to harvest
rattan, manufacturers prefer to import their raw
materials from India, by Subin Adhikari (kp
31/03/2023)
12
companies express interests for feasibility
study to operate electric buses on ring road of
Kathmandu Valley (rep 29/03/2023)
Domestic
industries struggle for market share (ht
27/03/2023)
After
nearly a decade of delay, govt brings procedure
for startups funding (ae 24/03/2023)
Auto
loans are back as cash crunch eases and import
ban ends : According to the Nepal Automobile
Dealers’ Association, nearly 90 percent of car
buyers take auto loans, by Krishana Prasain
(kp)
Where
has the money gone?, by Dilip Poudel (rep
22/03/2023)
WorldLink
gets funding boost of Rs1.98 billion : The loan
will be used to speed up internet expansion
activities across the country (kp
21/03/2023)
Enhancing
Corporate Social Responsibility, by Basu
Gautam (rn 17/03/2023)
Foreign
direct investment falls 93.61 percent
year-on-year in first seven months : Experts
blame Nepal’s topsy-turvy politics for scaring
away potential investors, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 16/03/2023)
Women
entrepreneurs in Mustang in need of digital
marketing skills : Digital marketing is much
more than just posting photos and videos on
social media, an expert says, by Deepak
Pariyar (kp 14/03/2023)
We’ll
soon launch one-door service for foreign
investors: PM Dahal (rep 14/03/2023), Govt
working for fully operationalizing one-stop
service and automatic approval of FDI: Dahal
(ae 15/03/2023)
High
profits and merger drive add to the strength of
insurance companies (ae 13/03/2023)
Tavisi,
an e-commerce platform for women, by women :
Especially catering to women, the online shop
provides a wide range of products of 13 local
and 40 international brands, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 08/03/2023)
‘Women
are breaking barriers and shattering glass
ceilings’ : Shreyana Shrestha, mega campaign
manager, and Kemika Acharya, head of key
accounts, at Daraz Nepal on how Nepali society
perceives female entrepreneurs (kp
08/03/2023)
Govt
amends conditions to allow non-resident Nepalis
to establish an investment company together
(kh 04/03/2023)
Address
Challenges Of Nepali Startups, by Bijaya
Karki (rn 03/03/2023)
Mediation
For Fair Business, by Mukti Riajl (rn
02/03/2023)
Non-life
insurance companies collected Rs 23.06bn in
premiums (ae 28/02/2023)
Durbar
Marga traders to pull down shutters for an hour
today (kh 27/02/2023)
Sharp
decline in net FDI inflow : Net FDI inflow to
Nepal has dropped by a whopping 93.4 percent in
the first half of the current fiscal year
(ae 21/02/2023)
Multigrain
sattu flour finds export market : Schools are
being urged to serve sattu under the mid-day
meal programme amid junk food invasion, by
Agandhar Tiwari (kp 21/02/2023)
Five
construction companies blacklisted (rep
20/02/2023)
Helping
women in business : Women entrepreneurs lack
technical knowledge to expand their business
operations, by Roshee Lamichhane (kp
20/02/2023)
Govt
announces eight industrial villages (kh
18/02/2023)
Women
led businesses surge in Rupandehi : The
increasing number of women entrepreneurs
reflects the progressive mentality of the family
and society, officials say, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 10/02/2023)
Economic
slowdown drags down insurance business growth
(ae 10/02/2023)
Auto
dealers reluctant to clear 2,900 vehicles parked
at customs yards (ae 07/02/2023)
NTC
customers exceed 21.3 million in number (kh
05/02/2023)
257
new enterprises registered in six months (kh
03/02/2023), Over
500 new enterprises registered in six months
(kh 04/02/2023)
Cement
makers say denial of IS mark will hurt exports :
Half a dozen Nepali cement companies are in the
final stages of obtaining certification, making
their products eligible for export to India,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 01/02/2023)
Premium
collection of insurers increased nominally in
the first half of the current FY (rep
31/01/2023)
PPMO
blacklists 12 companies (kh 29/01/2023)
Valley's
vegetable bazaar remains a seller's market :
Consumers complain that they are forced to pay
double the wholesale rate at retail stores due
to lack of monitoring, by Subin Adhikari (kp
28/01/2023)
SC
orders restaurants, hotels not to collect 10
percent service charge (kh 26/01/2023), No
more service charge anywhere, top court says :
Establishments—airports and electric utilities
to hotels and restaurants—can no longer add
service charge to bill, by Sangam Prasain
and Krishana Prasain (kp 27/01/2023), Row
rages over who can and cannot take service
charge after landmark ruling : Officials say the
ruling is for hotels and restaurants, but
consumer activists and lawyers say it applies
everywhere, by Krishana Prasain (06/02/2023)
SC
spanner on FDI in hydels? The Supreme Court had
issued an interim order on Nov 3 demanding to
know why the firm had failed to manage funds on
time, by Sabitri Dhakal (ae 26/01/2023)
70
percent decline in gold jewelry exports (ae
26/01/2023)
579
firms registered, 162 revoked in Tanahu in one
year (kh 26/01/2023)
Women
industrial village to be set up in Panchkhal
(kh 25/01/2023)
Finance
Minister for freeing public enterprises from
political interference (rn 24/01/2023)
Auto
dealers see rough road ahead despite end of
curbs : The central bank has removed the
provision requiring car importers to keep 100
percent margin amount to open a letter of credit,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 23/01/2023)
State
of investment : National and international
economic uncertainty forces investors to hold
their new investment plans (ae 23/01/2023)
FDI
pledges decline 43.27% in first half of FY
2022/23 : Foreign investors pledged to invest Rs
17.30 billion in Nepal in the first six months
(ae 19/01/2023)
Automobile
importers warned to clear custom yards or face
fine (ae 18/01/2023)
Merger
in Insurance Sector: Prime Life, Union Life, and
Gurans Life sign final merger deal (ae
17/01/2023)
Industries
based in Lumbini underperforming: NRB report
(ae 16/01/2023)
NRB
unveils stricter measures on investment abroad
(rep 13/01/2023)
Industries
reeling under nine-hour power cuts (ht
11/01/2023)
Is
NRB Directive on Working Capital Loan Private
Sector-friendly?, by Shankar Man Singh (rep
09/01/2023)
Restaurants
adding VAT on menu price to face fines : VAT and service
charge are included in the meal prices, and restaurants
cannot issue bills with extra taxes, officials say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 07/01/2023)
Capacity
utilization of Bagmati Province Industries stood at 47.4
percent in last FY (ae 06/01/2023)
Industries in
Madhes Province: Average capacity utilization increased
by 10 percent in last FY (ae 05/01/2023)
Dividend
payment by state-owned enterprises drops to 13-year low
; The low rate of return has raised questions over
whether the government should keep throwing good money
after bad to save poorly run companies, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 24/12/2022)
Nepal
ranks way down in digital entrepreneurship and
innovation : The Himalayan republic is 104th among 113
economies in digital environments, and 111th among 132
countries in innovation, reports show, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 22/12/2022)
Cooperatives
hit by the country’s worsening economic conditions,
increasing number facing financial problems (rep
21/12/2022)
Digital
payments drop, overturning expectations of spending
surge : Online payments during the period mid-October to
mid-November fell to Rs3.94 trillion from Rs4.93
trillion last year, by Krishana Prasain (kp
20/12/2022)
Solar
power developers demand NEA to return to old PPA rate
(ae 20/12/2022)
Government
apathy leads to a series of Cooperatives collapse
(ae 20/12/2022)
Through
e‑commerce, governments can generate opportunities for
entrepreneurs, says Dr Adhikari : “A policy and
regulatory framework that helps to enhance access to and
affordability of the internet for women can enable more
women to join the e‑commerce platform,” according to Dr
Adhikari (nlt 18/12/2022)
Investment
pledges plunge amid global economic slowdown : Nepal
received FDI assurances worth Rs11.60 billion in the
first four months, according to the Department of
Industry, by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/12/2022)
Nepali
apparel manufacturers miss out on sales boom : Clothing
makers were unable to ramp up production amid a surge in
demand because of a shortage of raw materials, by
Subin Adhikari (kp 13/12/2022)
Airline
magnate’s Arju brand long-grain rice to hit store
shelves next month : ‘We don’t buy paddy from the Indian
market. We encourage farmers to produce it,’ says
Birendra Bahadur Basnet, managing director of Buddha
Air, about his rice mill venture, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 12/12/2022)
Tiles
production begins in Nepal (kh 12/12/2022)
Why
informal enterprises operate informally? How can they be
formalized? The informal economy accounts for 38 percent
of Nepal’s GDP. Nepal needs a policy framework for
informal and microenterprises, by Ashesh Shrestha
(nlt 12/12/2022)
Support
Startups For Business Growth, by Rajendra Chataut
(rn 11/12/2022)
Outsourced
delivery services take off as e-commerce flourishes in
urban areas : PickNDrop has been selected among the top
five in the start-up category for this year’s ICT Awards,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 07/12/2022)
Slump
in power use sign of economic woes : Factories are
running below capacity, businesses are down for the lack
of loans, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 26/11/2022)
Govt
removes minimum threshold for NRN investment through
investment companies (rep 16/11/2022)
IIN
to promote FDI, equitable economic growth of Nepal
(kh 15/11/2022)
What
ails Nepali start-ups? It is not good when entrepreneurs
have to use software unapproved by the government,
by Roshee Lamichhane (kp 14/11/2022)
Sanitary
pad vending machines help to keep girls in school :
Local units, social organisations and schools are the
largest buyers of the vending machines, the manufacturer
says, by Pawan Pandey (kp 10/11/2022)
Import
ban results in closure of 58 motor dealers across
country (rn 10/11/2022), Import
ban pushes automobile sector to the brink, Automobile
Association says : “At least 58 dealers across the
country have been shut already. If the situation
persists, at least 100 dealers will be closed in a
month," NADA says (nlt 11/11/2022)
State-owned
Udayapur Cement Factory in deep financial crisis, by
Dilip Poudel (rep 08/11/2022)
Nepal
tightens business visa rules for foreign investors to
prevent misuse of the permit : Officials said the
Industry Department got tough following rising cases of
investment pledges not being fulfilled, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 06/11/2022)
Digital
economy overtakes e-commerce legislation : The
proliferation of online shopping and e-retailers has
made e-commerce laws urgently necessary, insiders say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 04/11/2022)
High
interest rates make life hard for businesses : When
faced with a shortfall of loanable funds, banks raise
the deposit interest rates to encourage people to
increase their deposits, report says, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 01/11/2022), High
rates exacerbate woes for industries, by Sangay
Sherpa (ht 02/11/2022)
Brick
industrialist says: half of last year's bricks are still
left, what to do this year?, by Krishna Kisi (rep
30/10/2022)
Flower
garlands worth Rs 135 million likely to be sold during
Tihar (kh 26/10/2022)
Udayapur
Cement seeks Rs500 million loan to replace obsolete
equipment : The factory has a production capacity of 800
tonnes daily, but it cannot run at full capacity because
of old machinery, by Krishana Prasain and Dilliram
Khatiwada (kp 24/10/2022)
Flower
vendors turn roaming salespersons as Kathmandu bans
sidewalk shops : Footpaths that would be full of flower
sellers during Tihar are almost empty. It’s a different
picture in Lalitpur, by Anup Ojha (24/10/2022)
Traders
doubtful about Tihar sales after dour Dashain : The
government’s constrictive trade policy has dampened the
market mood, industry insiders say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 17/10/2022)
FNCCI
and IFC join hands to produce a report on state of
private sector in Nepal (rep 15/10/2022)
Nepal
realizes only one-third of the FDI commitments: NRB
(rep 15/10/2022)
Minimum
foreign investment amount cut to Rs20 million : The
lowered minimum has failed to enthuse the private sector
because of inconsistency in government policy, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 15/10/2022)
Automobile
sector in crisis due to import ban, by Nagendra
Upahdyaya (rep 11/10/2022)
NOC
gets Rs 1.6 billion monthly profit (kh 08/10/2022)
Festive
offers and schemes fail to stimulate customers : Dealers
unveil their promotional schemes during this time of the
year because people have money in their pockets from the
Dashain bonus, by Krishana Prasain (kp 03/10/2022)
Extra
charge cannot be added to menu, court rules : A
Kathmandu District Court verdict prevents businesses
from adding 13 percent VAT and 10 percent service charge
to the bill, as they have been doing, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 28/09/2022)
Impact
Of Interest Hikes On Cooperatives,
by Uttam Maharjan (rn 27/09/2022)
KMC
monitors market: Inedible food items found in govt-run
shops (rep 27/09/2022)
Wilted
demand dismays flower traders, by
Sangay Sherpa (ht 27/09/2022)
175
firms face the music as market
monitoring intensified ahead of
festivals (nlt 24/09/2022), Market
monitoring : What the govt agencies must
understand is that market monitoring
should not be a onetime event (ht
26/09/2022)
Young
entrepreneurs voice concerns about
ailing economy : Business professionals
say Nepal’s economic situation is
getting worse from bad as they discuss
problems facing Province 1 (kp
24/09/2022)
E-commerce
watchers expect modest growth due to
embargo, inflation : Rising cases of
dengue in Kathmandu may also drive
shoppers to online stores in a replay of
pandemic days, sellers say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 23/09/2022)
No
business even during festive time
disappoints New Road traders (rep
23/09/2022)
The
future of Nepal’s tech industry : Tech
brands that rely on a ‘made in Nepal’
sentiment to sustain their businesses
are destined to ‘die in Nepal’, by
Asmod Karki and Dipta Shah (kp 22/09/2022)
Festival
gold sales likely to drop on low supply
: The import quota for the yellow metal
has been slashed to 10 kg daily leading
to less inventory, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 20/09/2022)
Street
Vendors Left Out In The Cold?, by
Parmeshwar Devkota (rn 18/09/2022)
Is
FDI really the panacea we seek?, by Prakritee Yonzon
(rep 15/09/2022)
Footpath
traders picket Kathmandu Metropolis office (kh
15/09/2022)
Nepal’s
FDI exceeds Rs 227 billion (kh 13/09/2022), Actual
net FDI inflow at only 36.5 per cent of total approval
(ht 14/09/2022)
Chinese
distributor of Oppo mobile phones in Nepal absconds
without paying rent (kh 13/09/2022)
Government
decides to build Naubasta Industrial Zone : The Rs9
billion trade infrastructure project in southwest Nepal
will create 111 plots ranging in size from 9 to 30
ropanis, by Rupa Gahatraj (kp 11/09/2022)
All
you need to know about Special Economic Zones of Nepal
(nlt 10/09/2022)
Ministry
of Industry, Marma Rural Municipality sign MoU on
Yarsagumba conservation (kh 05/09/2022)
NOC
owes Rs 21 billion to Indian Oil Corporation (kh
02/09/2022)
“Prosperity
is possible only when we sell Nepali products abroad” :
'The country develops when the youths are brought into
business', interview with Deepak Raj Joshi (kh
29/08/2022)
Street
Vending Integral To Urban Living, by Namrata Sharma
(rn 24/08/2022)
Wire
factories shut down in protest against higher taxes :
The manufacturers based in the Sunsari-Morang industrial
corridor accuse the government of raising import and
excise duties to protect a handful of factories, by
Binod Bhandari and Pawan Pandey (kp 16/08/2022)
Nepal
waits for consumer courts while business malpractices
soar : Consumer rights activists accuse the government
of holding back on setting up consumer courts due to
lobbying by manufacturers and traders, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 15/08/2022), Consumer
courts and rights : The lack of strict implementation of
laws has allowed dishonest traders to go scot-free
(kp 16/08/2022)
Talk
aims bringing Butwal yarn factory out of mothballs :
Once Nepal’s largest spinning mill, it shut down more
than a decade ago after being crippled by mismanagement,
by Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 14/08/2022)
2,187
new factories registered in Sarlahi in last FY (kh
12/08/2022)
NOC’s
accumulated loss reaches Rs 31 billion (rep
09/08/2022)
Depositors
can withdraw only 5 percent of deposits at a time as
cooperative sector marred with liquidity crisis (kh
08/08/2022), Liquidity
crisis in cooperatives: NCF urges cooperatives to stop
distributing cash dividends for now (rep 12/08/2022)
Manang
sees 49 new industries this fiscal year (kh
08/08/2022)
Rent
increases up to 687 percent in industrial areas, by
Dilip Poudel (kp 05/08/2022)
Firms
at industrial estates to get rent discounts based on
export performance : Companies in special economic zones
that export more than 60 percent of their output will
get higher reductions, by Madhav Dhungana and
Krishana Prasain (kp 04/08/2022)
115
companies to face action for producing, selling
unhygienic food stuff (rn 04/08/2022)
Reinvigorating
the streets : Municipalities have succeeded in grouping
vendors in a pedestrian, mall-type environment, by
Barsha Chitrakar (kp 04/08/2022)
CNI
urges govt to withdraw decision to hike rent in
industrial areas (ht 03/08/2022)
Nepal
self-reliant in grill and steel business (rep
31/07/2022)
NOC
won’t be privatized: Minister Badu (kh 31/07/2022)
Doubts
arise about construction of park in Damak, by Sachin
Pokhrel and Bishnu Kumar Pokhrel (rn 31/07/2022)
Case
filed against production of sub-standard food products
(kh 30/07/2022)
Biratnagar
Jute Mill to be re-operated: Minister Badu (kh
26/07/2022)
Government,
private sector join hands to promote startup ecosystem
in Nepal : The startup manifesto under StartupNation
aims to achieve 100,000 new quality jobs by 2030, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 26/07/2022)
Life
insurance companies earn Rs 139 billion in premium last
fiscal (kh 21/07/2022)
Foreign
direct investors rush back following Covid slump :
Investment commitments in the last fiscal year soared 68
percent to Rs54.15 billion, the Department of Industry
said, by Krishana Prasain (kp 20/07/2022)
Nepali
industries witness significant reduction in their
production capacity: CNI study (kh 19/07/2022)
Youth
programmes announced but not executed : Almost all youth
programmes focused on entrepreneurs have not been
implemented, Auditor General's report says, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 17/07/2022)
Entrepreneurs
worried about future of paragliding in Pokhara as int’l
airport prepares for operation : “As much as we were
excited about the construction of an international
airport in Pokhara, now we are worried that our own
business will be displaced somewhere along with the
operation of the airport” (nlt 16/07/2022), Entrepreneurs
Call to manage paragliding rather than displacing
(kh 16/07/2022)
Home
inspection start-up looking to expand beyond valley :
Three years after launching, Skill Sewa has served
10,000 clients and carried out 2,000 renovation jobs,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 14/07/2022)
Tax
waiver sets off investment rush in automobile assembly
plants : Six motor vehicle assembly companies with a
combined capital of Rs6.83 billion have been registered
with the Industry Department in the current fiscal year,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 11/07/2022)
Raised
entry barriers for foreign contractors may limit
competition : Officials and some contractors say
priority given to domestic contractors would help save
forex reserves (kp 10/07/2022)
Four
industries of Nepal produced goods worth Rs 1.2 trillion
over a year, by Himal Lamsal (rep 10/07/2022)
Nepali
manufacturing retarded by conflict, politics and energy
crisis : The number of large manufacturing
establishments grew by only 17.46 percent in 27 years,
according to the National Industrial Survey, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 09/07/2022)
Nepal
Oil Corporation’s outstanding dues to its Indian
supplier rise to Rs30 billion : There is, however,
optimism that the financial situation of the national
oil monopoly will improve after petroleum prices started
to decline in the international market amid global
recession fears, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
09/07/2022)
“KMC
has no policy to allow running shops or businesses on
footpath” (kh 07/07/2022)
Street
vending needs regulations, not ad hoc crackdown, experts
say : City planners stress management of roadside
businesses as they contribute to the economy by drawing
up a long-term plan, by Anup Ojha (kp 04/07/2022), Finding
common ground : Constant communication with street
vendors and other important stakeholders is a must
(kp 04/07/2022)
Nepali
start-up seeks to crack global cybersecurity market :
Bugv has gained more than 40 clients in a short period,
and over 5,000 ethical hackers are registered with the
platform, by Pawan Pandey (kp 04/07/2022)
Pandemic-induced
boom in e-commerce reshaped financial services, Daraz
says : E-commerce platforms help small-and-medium-scale
entrepreneurs to build marketing capacity (kp
04/07/2022)
Nepali
life-insurers can now get reinsured fully from domestic
companies (rep 03/07/2022)
Oil
Corporation increasingly anxious about piling debt to
its Indian supplier : Near bankruptcy, public utility
has outstanding payment dues worth Rs22 billion and the
sum is expected to rise, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
03/07/2022)
Three-day
ecommerce and digital marketing training for women
entrepreneurs (rep 30/06/2022)
Mergers
between insurance firms on the rise (ht 28/06/2022)
Hard
times for small businesses amid economic turmoil : High
production and fuel costs have made life difficult for
small enterprises which create many jobs, experts say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 27/06/2022)
Why
government should not run a business : Let’s assume the
government goes ahead with its plan to revive sick
industries. Will these industries actually prosper? Will
they show any kind of innovation? Will they be able to
compete with the private sector?, by Prakash
Maharjan (nlt 27/06/2022)
Impact
small businesses make in Nepal : Closing the financing
gap for small enterprises can help further stimulate the
economy, by Martin Holtmann (kp 27/06/2022)
To
curb cholera, Lalitpur targets street food sellers. Not
everyone is amused : Panipuri and chatpate vendors could
lose livelihoods. Experts stress better monitoring,
by Anup Ojha (kp 27/06/2022), A
move against street food : A blanket ban on all street
vendors and painting all with the same brush does seem
unjustifiable (kp 28/06/2022)
CG
in troubled water for profit margin on electric motors,
by Nitish Lal Shrestha (kh 23/06/2022)
Rethinking
fertilizer subsidy : The government should work towards
gradually removing regulatory barriers as well as
subsidies in fertilizer import. For as long as these
prevail, the private sector cannot enter and compete,
by Ayushma Maharjan (nlt 20/06/2022)
Potential
foreign investors put off by Nepal’s lax law enforcement
: FDI pledges in IT sector plunged 409 percent
year-on-year in the first 11 months of the current
fiscal year ended mid-June, by Krishana Prasain (kp
2006/2022)
eLance,
Nepal’s first digital marketplace, launched (rep
18/06/2022)
Challenges
of family-owned businesses : The new generation has
little interest in continuing the business built by
their elders, by Roshee Lamichhane (kp 16/06/2022)
Shrinkflation:
You’re getting less for same price as packages become
smaller : Firms are making product packets smaller
instead of raising prices as high production costs bite,
by Krishana Prasain and Pawan Pandey (kh 13/06/2022)
Nepal
to renegotiate with Motrex to establish electric vehicle
plant : South Korean automaker intends to assemble
Hyundai and Kia vehicles in Butwal, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 11/06/2022)
Manufacturers
in Gandaki going through a rough patch : The capacity
utilisation of most industrial firms is very low because
of multiple challenges, central bank report says, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 10/06/2022)
Online
shopping in Nepal turns into a blend of convenience and
bitter experience : The number of online websites and
pages serving customers has witnessed an uptick. But the
challenges of online shopping have also grown in
abundance, by Sakshi Srivastav (nlt 10/06/2022)
#NetaV:
Netizens slam a company of Nepal’s dollar billionaire
for ‘massively overpriced’ electric vehicle : Many have
slammed Nepal’s Chaudhary Group for overpricing a newly
launched China-made electrical vehicle Neta V. A fresh
debate has also been raised about the effective
implementation of Nepal’s black-marketing laws (nlt
10/06/2022)
Do
we really need public enterprises? In Nepal, public
enterprises were regarded as a vehicle for development.
They were taken as an instrument for the production and
for the execution of socio-economic policies, by
Anjila Shrestha (nlt 07/06/2022)
Start-ups
can't get funds for lack of work procedure : The
government has been announcing the programme annually,
but nobody knows when it will actually materialise,
entrepreneurs say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
05/06/2022)
On
petro business, policies have been utterly inconsistent
for many years : Several task forces have recommended
ending the monopoly of Nepal Oil Corporation.
Deregulation of fuel business becomes an agenda when
losses are reported, by Sangam Prasain and Krishana
Prasain (kp 24/05/2022)
Start-ups
wait for promised funding that never comes : The
government’s lacklustre attitude towards start-ups has
discouraged business innovators, entrepreneurs say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 20/05/2022)
Growth
Enterprises Promotion Programme Work Procedure comes
into force : The programme will help raise micro, small
industries to medium scale in terms of output and
employment, officials say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
18/05/2022)
FDI
worth Rs 34.54 billion pledged in first 10 month of
current FY (rep 16/05/2022)
Promised
rent reduction at SEZ yet to happen : The Special
Economic Zone Authority had decided to halve the monthly
rent to Rs10 per square metre to go into effect by March
23, by Krishana Prasain (kp 12/05/2022)
Palm
oil supply curbs may hit Nepali manufacturers :
Indonesia, the largest supplier of crude palm oil, has
banned exports to control rising domestic prices, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 09/05/2022)
Industrial
sites continue to be hammered by power outages : Nepal
has to fall back on imported power in the winter when
domestic output drops to one-third of the installed
capacity, by Madhav Dhungana and Shankar Acharya (kp
05/05/2022)
Palm
oil export restriction by Indonesia to affect export of
processed palm oil from Nepal (rep 02/05/2022)
NOC
says it is short of Rs 10 billion to pay to IOC for fuel
imports in this month (rep 02/05/2022)
Nepal
sees increase in FDI commitments, over Rs 33 billion of
foreign investment approved so far (rep 29/04/2022)
Industrial
sector to face more power cuts amid reduced supply from
India : Supply disturbance from the southern neighbour
has forced the Nepal Electricity Authority to repeatedly
cut power to the sector, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
28/04/2022), Electricity
export from India affected : Industrialists propose
two-day power cut; Face losses running into billions
(ht 28/04/2022)
Street
vendors are crucial to urban economy, but their plight
is huge : Those doing business on footpaths and alleys
need help, not harassment, experts say, by Pawan
Pandey (kp 22/04/2022)
Investment
pledges up 28 percent to Rs33 billion as of third
quarter : How much of the promised money will
materialise remains uncertain as commitments and
approvals normally do not match, government officials
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 21/04/2022)
Tanahun
woman earning Rs. 50,000 per month from goat rearing,
by Amar Raj Naharki (rn 17/04/2022)
IBN
receives commitment for investment worth Rs 1 trillion
for 31 big projects (rep 13/04/2022)
Two-day
‘Nepal Investment Conference 2022’ starts (rep
11/04/2022)
Startups
see long way to recovery after war sends prices soaring
: Government’s tepid response towards startups has
discouraged innovators, insiders say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 07/04/2022)
Convenience
over community : Chain supermarkets like BhatBhateni may
provide convenience and a range of choices but they also
take business away from local stores and destroy a sense
of community, by Prasansha Rimal (rec 05/04/2022)
Industries
seek immediate steps to address power crisis (ht
30/03/2022)
Bhairahawa
fast rising as country’s pharmaceutical hub : Pharma
factories in Lumbini province produce medicines worth
Rs15 billion annually and provide 2,500 jobs, officials
say, by Amrita Anmol (kp 28/03/2022)
FNCCI,
IBN ink agreement to collaborate (ht 28/03/2022)
Rule
barring foreign firms in projects below Rs3 billion cost
limits competition, stakeholders say : Contractors say
the threshold was increased from Rs1 billion to Rs3
billion to benefit select large contractors in a way to
promote collusion and to bleed state resources, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 27/03/2022)
German
business practices are marked by organization, planning
and perfectionism: Saraswati Maharjan, Chief Executive
Officer, NGCCI : "NGCCI has been bridging businesses
between Nepal and Germany and promoting German
investment in Nepal." (interview) (nlt 26/03/2022)
Delta
Sales App: An app that supercharges field sales teams
(nlt 25/03/2022)
What’s
next for e-commerce in Nepal? Now that the pandemic
grows weaker and markets reopen, do Nepali consumers
continue to buy online? Or have they reverted to old
ways? And, what does this mean for the Nepali e-commerce
industry?, by Bidhyalaxmi Maharjan (nlt 23/03/2022)
Investors
rush to Bhairahawa SEZ drawn by low rent and new airport
: Companies have suddenly become interested in setting
up plants inside the estate, which lay almost deserted
since it was built, officials say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 22/03/2022)
Govt
policy aimed at prohibiting growth and development of
small businesses, says FCAN (rep 19/03/2022)
Efforts
underway to revitalize COVID-19 hit economy: FinMin
Sharma (rep 18/03/2022)
E-commerce
going strong despite reopening of street markets :
Entrepreneurs say that online sales of household goods
have declined some, but demand for non-essential goods
is high, by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/03/2022)
IOC
Issues Fresh Price List Of Petro Products, Over 10
Billion Loss Projected For NOC In Month (rn
16/03/2022), NOC
To Suffer Rs. 10.60bn Loss A Month (rn 17/03/2022)
Dealers
unhappy after banks clamp down on auto loans : Banks say
they have not totally stopped loans to the auto sector,
but they have other priority sectors to serve, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 12/03/2022)
New
Daraz MD seeks to make an impact in Nepal : Aanchal
Kunwar left Amazon to come home and join Nepal's growing
e-commerce sector, by Shristi Karki (nt 11/03/2022)
Govt
allows night businesses to run 24 hours (kh
10/03/2022)
Bhairahawa
special economic zone slashes rentals by half : There
are few takers for the industrial plots at the
export-oriented enclave, and the estate lies
semi-completed even though many ministers have come and
gone, by Krishana Prasain (kp 10/03/2022)
Covid-induced
shift to digital has enabled women-led businesses to
survive and thrive : Despite the challenges of
accessibility, affordability and applicability faced by
women-led enterprises, organisations have worked to
overcome those obstacles, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp
08/03/2022)
Non-life
insurers collected premium of Rs 21.81 billion in the
first seven months of current FY (rep 05/03/2022)
The
business of delivering food : The rise of food delivery
companies in Kathmandu reflects the expansion of the
city’s middle-class and their changing appetites, by
Sajeet M. Rajbhandari (rec 03/03/2022)
Few
takers for subsidised loan scheme aimed at pandemic-hit
businesses : Under the Rs50 billion scheme for two
years, only Rs1.13 billion has been disbursed in a year
and a half, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/03/2022)
New
Dairy Industry Comes Into Operation (rn 28/02/2022)
Hiking
Reference Interest Rate, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
22/02/2022)
Karnali
industrial estate plan in limbo : Federal government’s
plan has failed to take off, as the project site remains
undecided even after five years, by Lalit Bahadur
Budha (ae 17/02/2022)
863
firms face action in current fiscal year (rep
17/02/2022)
Vesvusa
launches its official website (rep 15/02/2022)
Number
of women borrowers soars after pandemic : A record
80,061 women entrepreneurs borrowed Rs73.85 billion in
concessional loans from banks in the first six months of
the fiscal year, data shows, by Krishana Prasain (kp
12/02/2022)
Government
goes after delinquent hotels and casinos : With many
casinos defaulting on their taxes, casino royalty
irregularities have piled up to nearly Rs2 billion,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 11/02/2022)
Why
are foreign investors not investing enough in Nepal?
Registering a company in Nepal generally takes four to
five months. Some of the Indian companies discontinued
their investment citing unnecessary administrative
hassles (nlt 08/02/2022)
Foreign
direct investment pledges up 30 percent over last year’s
commitments : A Nepal Rastra Bank report has shown that
investment approvals don’t match actual investment
inflows, by Krishana Prasain (kp 04/02/2022)
Registration
of industries increases (kh 03/02/2022)
NOC
incurs staggering monthly loss of Rs 4.5 billion (kh
02/02/2022)
17
new companies look for receiving license of insurers
(rep 31/01/2022)
Sweet
hopes of bringing Birgunj Sugar Mill back to life turn
bitter : State-owned facility remains shut since 2003
after a row of incompetent political appointees ran it
into the ground, by Shankar Acharya (kp 30/01/2022)
Nepali
businesses down, Indian markets up : The traders of
Bardiya are also on the verge of going bankrupt. Some
have already quit business, by Yadav Acharya (ae
27/01/2022)
E-commerce
firms scale up operations as online shopping surges :
More consumers are expected to shop online at a higher
frequency following the rapid spread rate of Omicron,
insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 25/01/2022)
Nepal
Oil says it is bankrupt, further price rises foreseen :
Situation is so bleak that it is back to the bad old
days when the loss-making, cash-strapped public
enterprise used to ask the government for handouts to
import fuel, by Krishana Prasain (kp 22/01/2022)
Third
wave of pandemic threatens to push startups over the
edge : The government had announced providing seed
capital of Rs2.5 million to innovators at 1 percent
interest to help them survive, but the pledges are
limited to paper, entrepreneurs say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 19/01/2022)
Boosting
Cooperative Sector, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
18/01/2022)
Minister
Wants Cooperatives To Be Responsible To Members (rn
14/01/2022)
Reviving
industries in Nepal : Nepal’s industries, in particular,
need empathetic policy support from the government to
end the liquidity crunch, by Atul K Thakur (kp
12/01/2022)
Small
businesses worry as threat of Covid third wave looms :
Nepal on Monday reported 1,446 new coronavirus cases. On
January 2, the daily virus cases were just 216, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 11/01/2022)
Nepal’s
industrial capacity utilisation hampered by Covid-19,
report says : The country’s industrial sector continues
to face uncertainty due to raw material and manpower
shortages during the pandemic, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 10/01/2022)
Industry
and commerce in disarray due to headless ministry : The
Deuba administration has not appointed a new industry
minister since the previous incumbent left office last
May, by Krishana Prasain (kp 06/01/2022)
NOC
reeling through deepening financial problem due to
increasing losses in petroleum business (rep
04/01/2022)
Boosting
entrepreneurship: Target the youth, by Santosh
Kalwar (ht 03/01/2022), No
encouragement for start-ups : Strategies must be put in
place to provide a conducive environment to allow the
youths to thrive (kp 06/01/2022)
Consumer
activists and importers moan about bid to cut imports :
The central bank has made it mandatory for importers to
keep 100 percent margin amount to open a letter of
credit to import certain goods, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 27/12/2021)
Coal
shortage hits domestic brick and cement factories : The
combustible material is used as the primary fuel source
in brick and cement manufacturing, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 26/12/2021)
In
an effort to resume operation, Janakpur Cigarette
Factory calls for AGM to settle its financial
liabilities of past two decades : The government
enterprise is in process of resuming its operation after
shutting down manufacturing for two decades (rep
26/12/2021) [Tobacco consumption
makes people sick or even kills them. The government
should do better for people's health!]
One-third
of small businesses rely on inheritance for initial
capital : Access to bank credit remains limited with
just 16 percent of them going to banks and financial
institutions, ADB report says, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 25/12/2021)
Construction
industry in crisis due to liquidity crunch in banks:
Singh (rep 24/12/2021)
Metal
manufacturers importing sponge iron instead of billets :
The government abolished the customs duty on the import
of sponge iron after power generation swelled in a bid
to encourage domestic consumption of electricity, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 24/12/2021)
Nepal
Receives Investment Pledges For 30 Billion In Five
Months [rn 21/12/2021)
Ethical
leadership in business : Vital to unleash nation's
vitality, by Simone Galimberti (ht 20/12/2021)
Fresh
restrictions amid Omicron surge raise fears for economy
: Spending, manufacturing and distribution are all
likely to be hit with the attempts to prevent another
wave of infections, by Krishana Prasain (kp
16/12/2021)
Restaurants
and party venues unnerved by Omicron reports : The
government has indicated that some harsh rules will be
put in place to contain the spread of the virus, and
restaurant entrepreneurs fear yet another lockdown,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/12/2021)
FNCCI
preparing business code of conduct to end unfair
practices : The move comes ahead of two crucial
elections slated for next year when donation drives and
extortion by political parties are expected to
accelerate, by Krishana Prasain (kp 11/12/2021)
Foreign
investment up in current FY: Rs 30 billion FDI approved
(rep 09/12/2021)
Apex
College, MNS Next to set up Rs10-million startup fund :
The fund will be used for a startup centre for the
development and promotion of youth entrepreneurship
(kp 08/12/2021)
Shakti
Minerals in trouble for missing export quota : Factories
housed in the SEZ are required to export at least 60
percent of their production, according to the Special
Economic Zone Act, by Madhav Dhungana (kp
06/12/2021)
Webinar
held to enhance banking, financial and risk financing
skills of women entrepreneurs (rep 04/12/2021)
Manufacturing
and business shudder as virus resurgence threatens
recovery : Another lockdown would be disastrous when the
economy is starting to rebound from two years of
despair, insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
03/12/2021)
Tiger
One and Silver Heritage Investment held in contempt :
The company is the operator of the Tiger Palace Resort,
a five-star integrated casino resort in Bhairahawa,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 01/12/2021)
Digital
payments double to Rs1.22 trillion in first quarter :
The number of online transactions between mid-July and
mid-October also swelled to 54.12 million from 34.23
million previously, by Krishana Prasain (kp
30/11/2021), Digital
divide : Digital transactions are here to stay whether
we like it or not (kp 06/12/2021)
Promoting
FDI Flow In Nepal, by Shyam Prasad Mainali (rn
30/11/2021)
Over
1,300 business firms monitored in first four months of
current FY (kh 29/11/2021)
Record
number of new businesses registered while economy lay in
ruins : Registrations of new firms hit a high of 83,386
last fiscal year amid reports that hundreds of fake
companies popped up after the government announced
pandemic relief packages, by Krishana Prasain (kp
28/11/2021)
Few
takers for loan scheme aimed at saving pandemic-hit
businesses : Central bank says it has asked the
government to relax tough conditions to boost lending,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 25/11/2021)
87.2
percent of pandemic-hit businesses resume full
operation: NRB report (rep 25/11/2021)
Small
businesses were more affected by pandemic but paid
handsome taxes : Large Taxpayer Office missed target by
20 percent last year, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
25/11/2021)
As
multinationals post strong growth, shipping rates pose
new headwind : The United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development said that the impact of higher freight
rates could hit consumers even harder in smaller,
import-dependent economies that may see a 7.5 percent
cumulative increase in consumer prices, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 23/11/2021)
116
Industries Registered In Four Months At Rs. 135 Billion
Investment, by Laxman Kafle (rn 21/11/2021)
Udayapur
Cement embarks on Rs500-million modernisation plan :
Following the upgradation, the factory will churn out
1,100 tonnes of cement daily compared to the current 800
tonnes, by Dilli Ram Khatiwada (kp 19/11/2021)
Private
equity: A force for SME growth : Further reforms can
help the market grow and attract more investments and
best practices, by Babacar S Faye (kp 17/11/2021)
Palpali
dhaka to be branded to protect local industry :
Customers coming to buy Palpali dhaka often mistake
foreign fabrics for the local product, textile makers
say, by Madhav Aryal (kp 16/11/2021)
Nepalis
are avid internet users but lag in e-commerce : The
online marketplace has not been able to gain the trust
of consumers, but international brands can help reduce
the trust constraint, report says, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 09/11/2021), Boosting
online market : The sluggishness with which the
e-commerce industry is growing is unexplainable (kp
10/11/2021), ‘We
cannot compare internet boom with e-commerce growth’ :
The Post talked with some key stakeholders about the
status of e-commerce in Nepal, its potential,
constraints and measures to be taken to realise its full
potential (kp 10/11/2021)
Number
Of Industries Increasing In Birendranagar Industrial
Area (rn 09/11/2021)
Over
1.3 million companies renew, taking benefit of
concession (kh 02/11/2021)
Meet
the entrepreneur who fights against climate change by
engaging women in waste management : Shilshila Acharya,
the founder and director of Avni Ventures, has made a
career in mitigating the causes of climate change. Her
organization focuses on climate education awareness
among young people, women, and politicians through
campaigns and training, by Nisha Rai (nlt
28/10/2021)
IBN,
FNCCI discuss joining hands to attract FDI (ht
27/10/2021)
Govt
provides loan of Rs 1 billion to COVID-19 affected
businesses (rep 26/10/2021)
Police
launch crackdown on roadside vending at Thamel :
Authorities claim roadside vendors were involved in
illegal activities and blocking the road. Meanwhile,
vendors who live hand-to-mouth fear for their
livelihoods, by Anup Ojha (kp 24/10/2021)
194
new companies pledged Rs 146 billion investment during
mid-July and mid-October (rep 24/10/2021)
Trademark
infringement on the rise due to weak law enforcement,
officials say : The Department of Industry says it has
received over 50 complaints related to trademark
infringement in the first quarter of the current fiscal
year, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/10/2021)
Nat’l
conference of youth women entrepreneurs to take place in
Birgunj (kh 21/10/2021)
Foreign
investment commitments remain in negative territory :
The pandemic, unstable politics and ever changing
policies have made potential investors wary, officials
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/10/2021)
Branding
Nepali alcoholic drinks : Creating the right set of
infrastructure is one of the critical aspects of
branding any product, by Roshee Lamichhane (kp
18/10/2021)
Foreign
investment : It would be prudent to scrutinise the
financial health of a foreign firm before awarding it
any project worth billions of rupees (ht 11/10/2021)
Online
sellers hope to continue their streak : Shoppers getting
back to the physical market following the removal of
virus restrictions has not reduced online sales,
insiders said, by Krishana Prasain (kp 09/10/2021)
Goat
market bounces back as Dashain festivities near : Nepal
imported more goats in the first two months of fiscal
year 2021-22 than in the whole of the last fiscal
2020-21, officials say, by Krishana Prasain (ko
06/10/2021)
Seven
construction companies blacklisted (kh 05/10/2021)
Loss
of NOC likely to go up I(kh 03/10/2021)
Auto
sales show strong growth in run-up to festivals :
Two-wheeler sales swelled by 50 percent compared to last
year despite higher price tags due to higher taxes,
traders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 03/10/2021)
Govt
intensifies market monitoring as Dashain festival nears
(kh 02/10/2021)
Industrial
Income Up By 8% (rn 02/10/2021)
Roulette
wheels spin once again at Nepal’s casinos : The
mothballed gambling houses reopened after remaining
shuttered for one and a half years due to virus
restrictions, by Sangam Prasain (kp 30/09/2021)
How
dining out has changed since Covid-19 : Health, safety,
and sanitation are on the top of diners’ minds amidst
the pandemic, and restaurateurs seem to have taken note,
by Aakriti Ghimire (kp 30/09/2021)
Cinema
halls operators are optimistic as they plan to resume
screening movies, by Sajira Shrestha (kp 27/09/2021)
Buy
Mountain Dew, you get Maintan Dew. Trademark
infringement is on the rise : Number of trademark
infringement cases has increased by more than 50 percent
in three years, officials say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 17/09/2021)
‘Initiatives
on to address problems of traders, industrialists’
(kh 16/09/2021)
NYC
helping youths become entrepreneurs (kh 15/09/2021)
Start-ups
complain about lack of promised support : The prolonged
lockdowns and political instability have hurt startups
and many are operating just to survive in the current
situation, entrepreneurs say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 14/09/2021), Have
plans, need money : Without institutional support,
start-ups risk being too early for their time (kp
15/09/2021)
MoF
indecision to settle claims against COVID-19 insurance
leaves many in the lurch (rep 14/09/2021)
Nepal’s
automobile sector hits speed bump ahead of festive
season : Higher excise duty and road construction charge
will be levied on two-wheelers sold as per the revised
budget, by Krishana Prasain (kp 13/09/2021)
Revised
budget tightens noose on cooperatives (rep
11/09/2021)
Nepal’s
foreign direct investment stock up 8.5 percent in
2019-20, central bank report says : Bagmati had the
highest share of FDI while Karnali and Sudurpaschim
provinces accounted for the lowest, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 10/09/2021), Actual
net FDI inflow 34.1pc of total approval (ht
10/09/2021)
Investment
Board sets goal of approving investment worth 10 billion
USD in five years (kh 08/09/2021)
Non-life
insurance up by 11 % (kh 08/09/2021)
Nepal’s
manufacturing sector rebounds to near pre-pandemic
levels : Tourism and transportation have not been able
to regain their footing due to unclear policy, insiders
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 06/09/2021)
Upaya
CityCargo begins two-wheeler delivery service in
Kathmandu (kp 06/09/2021)
Insurance
Companies Sell 8.58 Million Policies In Last Fiscal Year
(rn 04/09/2021)
Freshktm
To Supply Vegetables Directly From Farmers To Consumers,
by Laxman Kafle (rn 02/09/2021), Freshktm
Opens Outlet At Maitidevi To Sell Fresh Fruits,
Vegetables, by Laxman Kafle (rn 05/09/2021)
Traders
hope festival shopping will revitalise economy : Online
sales trends and business activity indicators suggest
that a fast-paced recovery is underway, insiders say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 01/09/2021)
Thamel’s
night business operators submit keys to their shops to
CDO : They have accused the government of letting other
businesses open and restricting only theirs, by Anup
Ojha (kp 31/08/2021)
Plan
to provide subsidised seed capital for startups delayed
: The change in the government has put the Business
Credit Flow Work Procedure in limbo, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 30/08/2021)
Multinationals
in Nepal see sales boom in personal care products :
Business is expected to swell in the future as the
pandemic has made people more conscious of health and
hygiene, insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
22/08/2021)
Project
launched to foster resilience of women-led businesses
hit by COVID-19 pandemic (rep 20/08/2021)
Traders
ordering goods for Dashain well in advance : Last year,
inbound containers were held up at the northern border
point due to Covid-19 curbs, and they arrived too late
for the festival shopping spree, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 19/08/2021)
Pandemic-hit
youth entrepreneurs complain about lack of government
support : According to the Central Bureau of Statistics,
54.5 percent of all establishments in the country are
owned by young people, by Krishana Prasain (kp
15/08/2021)
Women
entrepreneurs hold meeting with Prime Minister Deuba
(rep 15/08/2021)
Industries
face problems in exports due to COVID-19 (rep
10/08/2021)
Number
of women entrepreneurs increases in Chitwan (kh
01/08/2021)
Kafkaesque
bureaucracy ruins industrial estate : Only 25 of the 69
plots at Nepal’s first special economic zone in
Bhairahawa have been utilised as there are no takers for
the rest, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 27/07/2021)
Materialising
‘Make In Nepal’ Campaign, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
27/072021)
Half
of businesses in Nepal are in informal sector : There
are 34,101 street businesses which employ 45,330 people,
report by Central Bureau of Statistics says, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 26/07/2021)
“Morale
of private sector has declined” : Government has done
nothing to boost private sector's morale: Rajesh Kaji
Shrestha (kh 25/07/2021) (interview)
Build
Back Better with Cooperatives, by Shankar Man Singh
(rep 24/07/2021)
Build
back better with cooperatives: Help communities recover
from COVID, by Shankar Man Singh (ht 22/07/2021)
Investment
pledges plunge as virus, messy politics scare away
investors : Foreign direct investment pledges fell 14.81
percent to Rs32.20 billion in the fiscal year 2020-21,
officials say, by Krishana Prasain(kp 21/07/2021)
Govt
collected over Rs 33 million in fines from firms
flouting consumer law in FY 2020/21 (rep 20/07/2021)
Clearing
the backlog of smart licences a challenge for transport
department, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 19/07/2021)
Auto
sector sees weaker recovery amid third wave fears : A
decline in consumer confidence and loss of disposable
income has spread gloom in the market, insiders say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 15/07/2021)
Flourishing
‘cartelpreneurship’ : Political uncertainty is what most
Nepali businesses love, by Sujeev Shakya (kp
13/07/2021)
Valley
restaurants reopen for dine-in services despite
prohibitory orders : Restaurants need money to pay
loans, and workers are also pressuring them to loosen
up, insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
13/07/2021)
Start-up
entrepreneurs to get subsidised seed capitalThe Business
Credit Flow Work Procedure, which is in the process of
being approved, will be implemented from the upcoming
fiscal year, by Krishana Prasain (kp 09/07/2021)
Factories
forced to shut down due to flooding : The problem has
occurred because the roadside drains are narrow and they
get clogged, insiders say, by Madhav Dhungana (kp
06/07/2021)
Other
things besides profit : Why the private sector in
health, education and cultural heritage has a poor image,
by Jagadish Prasad Bist (kp 02/07/2021)
Giving
start-ups a head start : Despite obstacles, start-ups
emerge as exciting new outliers of Nepal’s economy,
by Siddhant Pandey (nt 02/07/2021)
Transport
entrepreneurs warn of operating long-distance transport
services from Friday despite ongoing ban (rep
01/07/2021)
Party
venues go under due to restrictions : The government has
not provided any relief packages to catering service
providers, insiders say, by Krishana Prasdain (kp
30/06/2021)
Restaurants
say they will open dine-in service from next week : The
latest prohibitory order allows restaurants to provide
only take away service, by Krishana Prasain (kp
29/06/2021)
Young
Business Executive Forum (YBEF) inaugurated (kh
26/06/2021)
ADA
joins hands with Outreach Nepal to offer data-driven
marketing in Nepal (rep 24/06/2021)
State-owned
companies withdraw discount on groceries citing end of
lockdown : Finance Ministry says it has given no such
instruction as general public continues to suffer from
pandemic curbs, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/06/2021)
Government
presses businesses over taxes : Private-sector
representatives and experts say the state should be
flexible with businesses considering the impact of
Covid-19 pandemic, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
22/06/2021)
Pathao,
Tootle to resume services from Tuesday : Ride-hailing
service providers had discontinued operation after
prohibitory orders were imposed on April 29, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 22/06/2021)
Confusion
over ‘essential items’ hits online sellers’ business :
Authorities relaxed delivery rules under pressure from
consumers and online traders but the guidelines weren’t
clear, insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
20/06/2021)
Nepal’s
first liquid oxygen plant to be established in
Bhairahawa : The costly project may not be feasible due
to the small domestic market, insiders say, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 12/06/2021)
Salt
Trading Corporation's monopoly comes to an end : Nepalis
consume around 200,000 tonnes of iodised salt worth
Rs2.5 billion annually, officials say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 10/06/2021)
Ban
on yarsagumba collection worries Karnali residents :
Authorities have prohibited people from picking the
precious fungus in light of the second wave of the
pandemic that has gripped the country, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh, Rajbahadur Shahi and Hari Gautam (kp
09/06/2021)
NRB
approval not required for small-size foreign investment
(kh 09/06/2021)
Rehabilitation
scheme for Covid-19 affected enterprises fails to woo
borrowers : Entrepreneurs say the prerequisites of
needing to clear a portion of earlier loans and
providing tax clearance certificates are obstacles.
Central bank hopes the scheme will have takers as it
gets continuity in the new budget, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 07/06/2021)
Sunsari-Morang
sees 20,000 workers laid off as lockdown chokes
factories : The industrial heartland in the eastern
region is home to 500 factories which employ around
50,000 persons, by Binod Bhandari (kp 06/06/2021)
E-Business
Association criticizes latest restrictions imposed on
e-commerce and home delivery (rep 04/06/2021)
Duty
cuts to boost sales of home appliances : The new budget
has abolished excise duty on household equipment in a
bid to increase electricity consumption, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 04/06/2021)
Businesses
become casualties of coronavirus : The pandemic has
devastated small and medium firms, robbing thousands of
livelihoods, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/06/2021)
Ban
on roadside vending disrupts livelihoods of Kathmandu’s
poor : Over 6,000 vegetables and fruits hawkers have
been robbed of their incomes, by Anup Ojha (kp
31/05/2021), A
view from street level : It is prudent to support street
vendors financially and help them evolve as formal
entrepreneurs (kp 01/06/2021)
Small
business owners say they never see budget funds :
Allocations are announced for cottage, small and medium
entrepreneurs every year but nobody knows where the
money goes, insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
31/05/2021)
Govt
provides Rs 13.58 billion to Ministry of Industry
(kh 29/05/2021)
Consumer
activists sceptical about promised home delivery service
: The local administration has ordered grocery stores to
close down as it extended the lockdown by another week,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 28/05/2021)
Fight
for survival, by Nitish Lal Shrestha (kh 25/05/2021)
Death
and taxes : The lockdown has bankrupted businesses, and
they need sensible relief packages (kp 21/05/2021)
Ban
on food delivery business hits jobs : Contactless meal
delivery service helps prevent the spread of Covid-19,
industry insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
21/05/2021)
Goods
worth Rs 7.87 billion traded via online system in the
first nine months of the current FY (rep 17/05/2021)
Major
multinational companies make sharp rebound to post
record profits : But the second wave may squash demand
and push the economy back into uncertainty, insiders say,
by Krishana (KP 16/05/2021)
Kalimati
fruits and vegetables market stops retail sales :
Consumer rights activists say that without a proper
distribution system in place, this could lead to price
hikes, by Krishana Prasain (kp 12/05/2021)
Industry
department recommends review ofminimum threshold on
foreign investment : In May 2019, the government had
revised the minimum threshold for FDI to Rs50 million
from Rs5 million. However, at that time, the private
sector had opposed the move saying that the potential
investors might consider the policy restrictive, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 10/05/2021)
Factories
face shortages of raw materials as prohibitory order
cuts supply lines : Entrepreneurs say they can handle a
short period of immobility, but worry the lockdown may
be prolonged, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 07/05/2021)
E-commerce
companies’ survival at stake, urge govt to allow their
operation (rep 07/05/2021)
Nervous
consumers drive demand for packaged goods and
beverages : With people allowed to buy only essential
products online, they have begun to stockpile food
products, traders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
04/05/2021)
Online
sellers demand clear operating rules : The government
should also revise the definition of essential items as
it has become obsolete, ecommerce entrepreneurs said,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 30/04/2021)
Industry
gears down following prohibitory orders : The virus
caseload has surged in the Tarai, the country’s
industrial heartland. Output is down 50 percent on
subdued demand and labour shortages, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 28/04/2021)
As
Covid-19 cases surge, bus operators worry about another
lockdown, by Anup Ojha (kp 25/04/2021)
Party
venues dismayed by latest Covid-19 restrictions :
Instead of placing restrictions, the government should
conduct strict inspections and close border points with
India, entrepreneurs say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
23/04/2021)
FDI
realization stands at 34 percent of the pledged amount
in the past two and a half decades: NRB (rep
23/04/2021)
Nepal
receives 182 billion FDI from 53 countries (kh
22/04/2021) [Some of the
countries are considered leading money laundering
states!]
Meet
the keepers of old books : For decades, secondhand book
shops have allowed people to buy books at affordable
prices. But these shops are now finding it increasingly
difficult to stay afloat, by Srizu Bajracharya (kp
22/04/2021)
Gold
demand outshines market supply as wedding season begins
(ht 21/04/2021)
Nepal
Trust unable to earn 10 months’ rent from Kathmandu
Plaza, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 17/04/2021)
Surging
coronavirus caseloads dampen New Year sales : A
lacklustre customer mood has prevented many companies
from launching bumper offers, schemes and discounts,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/04/2021)
Foreign
investment pledges fall 12.7 percent : Of the
commitments worth Rs26 billion made so far this fiscal
year, more than 70 percent is from China. Most of the
investment is in the tourism sector, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 12/04/2021)
Nepal’s
apex private sector body aims for ambitious $100 billion
economy by 2030 : A vision paper launched by the
Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry
has envisaged an ambitious target to generate 2.2
million jobs in a decade (kp 11/04/2021)
Restaurant
owners lament order to close by 9 pm : The directive is
intended to prevent all non-essential gatherings amid
fears of a second wave of Covid-19 infections,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 10/04/2021)
New
provisions to enhance women entrepreneurship (ht
09/04/2021)
Manufacturing
encounters energy problems just as industries were
recovering from pandemic blow : Factories in Bhairahawa
have again been forced to slash production due to
insufficient electricity supply, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 07/04/2021)
Digital
nomads : Can Nepal compete in attracting this new
segment of visitors?, by Sujeev Shakya (kp
06/04/2021)
Shopkeepers
of Kathmandu Durbar Square decry City’s eviction plan,
by Anup Ojha (kp 04/04/2021)
Five
new insurance companies await operating license (rep
02/04/2021)
Sound
business of mad honey : Collected by the world’s largest
bee Apis dorsata laboriosa, and commonly called “Bhir
Mahuriko Maha” in Nepali, mad honey has a lot of
medicinal values, by Pratik Ghimire (ae 01/04/2021)
Second-hand
vehicle market booms amid calls for social distancing :
Sales of reconditioned autos have increased by 25 to 30
percent compared to pre-pandemic times, dealers say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 30/03/2021)
Nepal
Trust on verge of losing more thanRs50 million over
Kathmandu Plaza row : Company that rented the building
for 27 years claims trust didn’t agree to extend lease
even when it offered to hike rent, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 24/03/2021),
Province
2 on high alert as India reports rise in Covid-19
casesHealth workers are worried about a possible
outbreak of Covid-19 in the province that shares a
460-kilometre-long open border with India, by Bhusan
Yadn (kp 24/03/2021)
FNCCI
to support 50 start-ups (ht 24/03/2021)
Govt
Fails To Relocate Street Vendors In Kathmandu, by
Kshitiz Shivakoti (rn 23/03/2021
Cooperatives
flourish in production sector outside the valley, by
Arpana Ale Magar (ht 19/03/2021)
Let
Nepalis invest abroad : Stifling investment laws will
now push the next wave of out-migration, by Sujeev
Shakya (kp 09/03/2021)
Bhairahawa
special economic zone lies forlorn and empty : The
export-oriented enclave, whose construction started
nearly two decades ago, remains in a semi-finished sate
and lacks even basic infrastructure like electricity and
water, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 09/03/2021)
Women
entrepreneurs struggle to recover from pandemic : Around
15 percent of women-run businesses collapsed while
others are operating only partially, insiders say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 08/03/2021)
What
ails ride-sharing business? Is the role of ride sharing
platforms limited to acting as intermediaries
responsible for matching riders and customers along with
price setting?, by Yatindra KC (rep02/03/2021)
Internet
of things : Ecosystem of business, by Roshan Pandey
and Samriddha Pyakurel (ht 01/03/2021)
Despite
tremendous growth in digital payments, potential remains
untapped fully, insiders say : Cashless transactions are
popular among small businesses to large enterprises. But
digital literacy, digital divide and trust remain as
major challenges, they say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
22/02/2021)
Reusable
mask manufacturers thrive in the midst of the pandemic :
As the pandemic caused demand for face masks to
skyrocket, a few Kathmandu-based companies started
making reusable masks—and the trend is picking up,
by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 20/02/2021)
DoT
to provide star rating to all hotels, resorts, lodges
(ht 20/02/2021)
Nepal
Telecom’s profit down by 33 percent (rep 14/02/2021)
Most
businesses still operating in the red despite end of
lockdown, report saysA survey conducted by the Ministry
of Industry showed that 10.81 percent of firms have shut
down, by Krishana Prasain (kp 12/02/2021)
25
percent startups have folded up since pandemic began :
Other than the lack of proper business plan and demand,
they collapsed after the government failed to provide
subsidised loans, experts say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 07/02/2021)
NOC
incurring losses of a billion rupees fortnightly (kh
06/02/2021)
Recovery
in sales of fast-moving consumer goods slow : Demand is
still down in rural areas despite a surge in orders from
e-commerce platforms in urban centres, firms say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 05/02/2021)
Six
industrial areas to be built with foreign and domestic
funding ॥ The ones planned to be established in Jhapa,
Chitwan and Rupandehi will have foreign investment,
officials say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 04/02/2021)
Government's
'Nepal Food' branded Marsi rice selling like hot cakes
(ht 03/02/2021)
Registrations
of new business firms down 45 percent in the first six
months : Political instability could further erode
foreign and domestic investor confidence, officials say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 29/01/2021)
Around
40 percent brick industries shut across the country
(rep 28/01/2021)
Nepal
issues new regulations regarding foreign investment :
Foreign investors need to bring 70 percent of their
proposed investment before beginning operations,
and the rest in the next two years, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 121/01/2021), SC
tells govt not to allow FDI in agro sector (ht
21/01/2021)
City
police accused of taking kickbacks from street vendors,
by Anup Ojha (kp 19/01/2021)
Central
bank removes restrictions on larger enterprises to
avail of refinance facility : After not getting enough
applications from smaller businesses for the subsidised
loan facility, it invites more larger enterprises to ask
for the loans, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
18/01/2021)
Thamel
businesses offer packages to attract Nepalis to
stay afloat with mixed success : The perception that
Thamel is only for tourists is keeping potential
domestic customers away, business owners in the area say,
by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 17/01/2021)
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City doesn’t have any plans yet for street
vendors : While Lalitpur Metropolitan City authorities
have adopted a much gentler way to manage street
vendors, their counterparts in Kathmandu are still
resorting to brute force, by Anup Ojha (kp
16/01/2021)
Nepal
to build four new economic zones on the borders with
India and China : The construction of a cross-border
economic zone in the far west will help
industrialisation, insiders say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 15/01/2021)
Rs
83.13bn approved for refinancing (ht 14/01/2021)
Industries
crawling back to normalcy (ht 13/01/2021)
Government
approves regulation to protect domestic industries
(ht 05/01/2021)
Draft
e-commerce bill is finally prepared, but has too many
issues, stakeholders say : These include lack of
clarity, privacy concerns and accountability. Officials
admit flaws and say suggestions are welcome for the
final bill but there is no House to pass it into law,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 04/01/2020)
Revolving
funds under Poverty Alleviation Fund to be transformed
into cooperatives : Once Cabinet gives approval, as many
as 600 cooperatives will be formed nationwide, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 03/01/2021)
Few
takers show up for loans under Business Continuity
Credit Plan : The scheme allows firms left cashless by
Covid-19 to borrow funds to pay their employees, by
Prithvi ManShrestha (kp 02/01/2021)
Covid-19
pandemic drives away potential foreign investors :
Investment pledges in the first five months of the
fiscal year were down 23 percent, according to the
Department of Industry, by Krishana Prasain (kp
31/12/2020)
How
the virus changed consumer behaviour More people
adopted digital technology after the pandemic
limited physical movement, by Roshee
Lamichhane (kp 28/12/2020)
Covid-19
affected businesses to protest demanding relief and
rehabilitation package : Entrepreneurs say that the
refinance facility has not been available to the small
and medium scale enterprises, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 21/12/2020), Government
struggles to mobilise funds for loans at subsidised
interest for virus-hit sectors, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 21/12/2020)
Investment
Board Nepal expedites final approval process of four
mega projects worth Rs 150 billion (rep 17/12/2020)
TransNepal
Freight Services wins bid to operate Kakarbhitta dry
port in eastern Nepal : Intermodal Transport Development
Board has handled the facility since its construction,
by Parbat Portel (kp 16/12/2020)
Nepali
MSEs over banks : Should the NRB prioritize high-revenue
businesses when millions of lives at the bottom of the
economic ladder have been devastated?, by Bhoj Raj
Poudel (ae 11/12/2020)
Cooperatives
Bring Empowerment, by Namrata Sharma (rn 09/12/2020)
Nepali
apparels shine in the market with foreign goods stuck at
northern border points : The import of readymade garment
declined 31 percent in the first four months of the
current fiscal year, according to Trade and Export
Promotion Center, by Krishana Prasain (kp
07/12/2020)
Nepalis
can now pay in dollars to buy foreign goods, services
(rep 06/12/2020)
High
Demand Abroad For Herbal Aromatic Oil Produced In Nepal,
Factory Falls Short To Meet Demand, by Gopi Gyawali
(rn 04/12/2020)
After
election, private sector body has no choice but to end
factionalism, and fight a common enemy—Covid-19 pandemic
: The faction led by incoming president Golchha loses,
but he holds out an olive branch so that it can jointly
lobby government for support to rehabilitate
pandemic-hit businesses, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
30/11/2020)
As
pandemic continues, frozen food sales boom : People
thought it wiser to stock up on refrigerated products
and avoid crowded shops, by Krishana Prasain (kp
30/11/20209
FMTCL,
DDC to extend operation of fair price shops till Jan 15
(ht 26/11/2020)
Kathmandu’s
real estate market feels the pinch of pandemic :
Property rental segment has taken a major hit as tenants
and business owners are vacating apartments and shutter
spaces unable to pay rent, by Tsering Ngodup Lama
(kp 23/11/2020)
Digital
payments gaining popularity among Nepali online shoppers
: E-payment accounted for about 40 percent of the online
sales during the recent festival shopping spree, sellers
said, by Krishana Prasain (kp 23/11/2020)
Concessional
loan applications from November 25 (ht 23/11/2020)
Driven
by festive push, auto sales recovery continued
into October-November : Some models of two-wheelers went
out of stock due to explosive demand, dealers say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 22/11/2020)
Government
categorises COVID-hit businesses for loan : Business
owners will not be allowed to lay off staff after taking
such loans until they pay back the loan (ht
20/11/2020)
Women
Engaged In Brewing Homemade Liquor Turn To Spinning
Wool, Make Decent Income, by Gyabu Pangeni (rn
20/11/2020)
COVID
Lockdown Makes An Offer: Hotelier Youth Translates
Childhood Aspiration Into Action, Becomes Buffalo Farmer,
by Thakur Prasad Acharya (rn 20/11/2020)
Hanging
by a thread : Nepal’s garment industry can be revived if
the garment processing zone is operated proficiently,
by Bijendra Man Shakya (kp 15/11/2020)
Tourism
still top attraction forforeign investors despite crisis
: Hotels, resorts and restaurants accounted for
two-thirds of the investment pledges, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 13/11/2020)
Pottery
square that would be full of pala looks deserted, by
Anup Ojha (kp 12/11/2020)
FDI
pledges promising but huge gap still in actual inflow
(ht 12/11/2020), Encouraging
signs : Nepal has failed to attract the actual foreign
direct investment committed by the investors due to
bureaucratic hassles (ht 13/11/2020)
Factories
holding back production despite easing of coronavirus
restrictions : Business conditions have improved, but
demand remains low to warrant raising output,
entrepreneurs say, by Binod Bhandari (kp 12/11/2020)
Investment
Board okays investments worth Rs38.68 billion for three
hydropower projects (kp 12/11/2020)
Sales
of festival lights dive as virus ruins festive spirit :
Imports were valued at Rs180 million this Tihar compared
to Rs400 million previously, by Krishana Prasain (kp
11/11/2020)
Solution
for sustainability: Youth entrepreneurship, by
Shradha Pal (ht 11/11/2020)
Growing
locally : The state must create opportunities for people
willing to invest in local enterprises (kp
10/11/2020)
Central
bank delays making mechanism for social media
advertisement payments : Advertising agencies say the
central bank should regulate the payment system, by
Prithvi Man Shr5estha (kp 09/11/2020)
75pc
factories in Hetauda Industrial Estate to be booked
(ht 09/11/2020)
Sweet
traders bracing for a bitter Tihar (ht 07/11/2020)
Clean
feed policy expected companies to raise advertising
budget in Nepal : Industry insiders hope ad revenue to
double to Rs24 billion in the next two years, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/11/2020)
After
record-breaking orders and sales during Dashain, online
sellers eye Tihar : E-retailers estimate that sales may
have crossed the Rs1 billion mark during the two-week
shopping spree, by Krishana Prasain (kp 03/11/2020)
Rs50
billion reliefpackage roll-out delay worries businesses
: Change in the leadership of the Ministry of Finance
and transfer of secretaries behind the delay, officials
say, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/11/2020)
Unscrupulous
activities continue to rise despite an uptick in market
inspections : n current fiscal year alone, from mid-July
to October end, the department has fined 197 firms a
total of Rs9 million, by Krishana Prasain (kp
01/11/2020)
Registration
of new companies down by 27% in last fiscal year
(rep 21/10/2020)
Nepal’s
biggest festival Dashain fails to lift the market
mood, buyers and sellers say : Incomes have gone down
and prices have gone up with supply chain obstructions
in a country where 82 percent of the gross domestic
product is based on consumption, by Krisdhana
Prasain (kp 21/10/2020)
Shoppers
snap up goats at government outlet : The price of live
goats was fixed at Rs550 per kg, which is Rs100 per kg
less than the market price, by Krishana Prasain (kp
21/10/2020)
With
income disrupted for most, Dashain economy unlikely to
do well : The prices of food items like rice, lentils,
legumes, edible oil too have increased by Rs10 per kg on
an average, by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/10/2020)
Tax
authority tells nearly 30,000 firms to submit tax
details or face de-registration : The number of
non-filers has been growing each year and most of these
businesses are not in operation, say authorities, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 13/10/2020)
Nepali
jute factories hurt by soaring cost of raw
materials, by Binod Bhandari (kp 13/10/2020)
The
countdown to Dashain has begun but the shopping frenzy
has not materialised : People are staying home due to
virus fears, and they have less spending money because
of the lockdown, traders said, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 11/10/2020)
Cooperatives
To Bring Down Number, by Modnath Dhakal (rn
08/10/2020)
E-Commerce
Gets A Boost, by Dixya Poudel (rn 07/10/2020)
Digital
Monitoring Of Cooperatives, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
06/10/2020)
Substandard
mechanisms : Businesses are out to cheat when the
government mechanisms are flawed and weak (kp
06/10/2020)
Covid-19
creates job openings in e-commerce sector : While the
rest of the economy sees gloomy prospects, online
sellers have been hiring with a frenzy in the delivery,
logistics and warehouse departments, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 01/10/2020)
CIB
refuses to arrest persons operating networking business
(ht 30/09/2020)
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Fair Price Shops To Be Opened Across The Nation For
Dashain (rn 28/09/2020)
With
Dashain approaching, beleaguered automobile dealers
hopeful business will pick up : The sector is expecting
to hit the bulk of their yearly sales target—around 40
percent—during the festive season, says Nepal Automobile
Dealers’ Association, by Krishana Prasain (kp
27/09/2020)
Shops
are not getting customers even during festival season :
Since Covid-19 has severely decreased the purchasing
power of consumers, shops and businesses are struggling
to survive, by Anup Ojha (kp 24/09/2020)
COVID-19
has spurred more Nepali businesses to start using
internet, social media or digital platforms to seize
business opportunities: survey (rep 23/09/2020)
Capacity
utilisation of Nepali industries slumps to 40pc (ht
22/09/2020)
Virus
fears make festive shoppers turn to e-commerce
E-retailers are looking forward to a boom in online
shopping ahead of the festive season as the Covid-19
pandemic forces people to remain housebound, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 21/09/2020)
Subcommittee
suggests Act amendment to regulate networking businesses
: Lawmakers call for a number of interventions such as
increment in paid-up capital of companies and regular
inspection, by Krishana Prasain (kp 20/09/2020)
Tenants
problem shifting towards landlords : Rooms and flats
lying vacant for months, by Sabina Karki (kh
19/09/2020)
Nepali
businesses with souls : Should Nepali businesses have
broader social, political, and economic responsibilities
even as they seek to deliver profits?, by Bishal
Thapa (ae 18/09/2020)
Crusher
industries flouting basic criteria (ht 18/09/2020)
Small
businesses begin to collapse as prolonged lockdown
paralyses operations : Entrepreneurs have no income, but
government taxes and bank interest payments are piling
up, they say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 15/09/2020)
Selling
of date-expired food items rampant in Valley (rep
15/09/2020)
'Unfair
To Restrict Street Vendors From Business As They Are
Among Hit Hardest Due To Pandemic', by Mukunda Gaire
(rn 14/09/2020)
Industries
and factories begin operations in Province 5 with local
labour force : Local workforce is filling the vacuum
created by foreign workers who left for their home when
the pandemic hit, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 12/09/2020)
Tourism
minister proposes unshackling travel industry : The
Covid-19 Crisis Management Committee will discuss the
proposals aimed at revitalising the economy before
sending them to the cabinet for approval, officials said,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 11/09/2020)
Homestay
operators turn to farming after tourism fades : The
pandemic has wiped out small businesses, the backbone of
the country’s economy, by Madhu Shahi (kp
09/09/2020)
Foreign
investment pledges from India down 51 percent due to red
tape, by Krishana Prasain (kp 09/09/2020)
Covid-19
stops women entrepreneurs in their tracksThey are
involved in sectors such as tourism, food service,
agriculture and manufacturing enterprises that require
daily transactions to stay afloat, by Aditi Aryal
(kp 07/09/2020)
For
some, the pandemic is an opportunity to start new
businesses : With time on their hands, they are pursuing
their passion to prepare food and deliver them to
people’s homes, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
06/09/2020)
New
cyber security law requires firms to use
information sharing platform : The purpose of the
platform is to establish a cyber security community to
detect and prevent cyber attacks, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 05/09/2020)
Nepal
punishing e-commerce, by Bhoj Raj Poudel (ae
04/9/2020)
Doubts
raised over implementation of new market
monitoring procedure : Consumer rights activists
and traders cite the government’s failure to implement
such regulations effectively in the past, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 02/09/2020)
With
economy hit by Covid-19, sales of motorcycles and cars
down by up to 50 percent, dealers say : With continued
restrictions on movement despite Dashain, when sales
pick up, approaching, dealers are now pinning hopes on
next year, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 01/09/2020)
Implementation
of projects under Investment Board is drawn-out process
: The new Act will further inhibit the board’s
functioning that is already throttled by rigmarole of
bureaucracy, officials say, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 25/08/2020)
Hetauda
Cement’s losses jump fivefold as virus hits
construction : The state-owned company racked up losses
totalling Rs 50 million in the last fiscal year, by
Subash Bidari (kp 25/08/2020)
Government
lacks system to monitor builders’ bid capacity : The
monitoring body says it is updating software to enforce
bidding capacity criteria, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 24/08/2020)
Bring
Cooperatives Within Legal Ambit, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 18/08/2020)
Beauty
parlour owners fear uncertain future as strict
restrictions are reimposed: They had already suffered
major losses, as they were forced to shut down during
the entirety of the wedding season from mid-April to
mid-May, by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/08/2020)
Government
stops issuing permits for conducting direct sales of
goods: The direct sales business is the illegalised
networking business in a new avatar, consumer rights
activists say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/08/2020)
DoCSCP
to halt registration of new companies (ht
10/08/2020)
Start-ups
see no respite in sight as Covid-19 makes survival a
challenge: With cash inflow at its lowest, start-up
owners worry Kathmandu’s burgeoning start-up community
will collapse, by Krishana Prasain (kp 09/08/2020)
Govt
asks industrialists to settle dues of electricity use
through dedicated feeders for 28 months (rep
09/08/2020)
Shopkeepers
at Bhrikutimandap rue lack of business despite easing of
lockdown: Other shopping destinations in Kathmandu are
also seeing fewer customers, say traders, by Shuvam
Dhungana and Krishana Prasain (kp 08/08/2020)
Businesses
laid off a quarter of employees, trimmed 18 percent pay
during the lockdown, survey says: The survey showed that
half of the companies’ business is financed by debt and
as a result, they were unable to pay their employees as
their cash flow dried up, by Sangam Prasain (kp
06/08/2020), 61
per cent of industries totally shut during the lockdown
(ht 06/08/2020),
COVID-19
renders one-fourth private sector workers jobless, NRB
survey finds: Businesses expect to return to normality
in nine months (rep 06/08/2020) [For
what reason??]
Industries
operating at only 60pc capacity (ht 04/08/2020)
Over
70,000 youth entrepreneurs to benefit from reduced
interest rate on loans: The Youth and Small
Entrepreneurs Self-Employment Fund has issued nearly Rs5
billion in loans, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
02/08/2020)
Already
struggling to meet targets, Nepal’s footwear export
numbers look at an uncertain future: Nepal exported
footwear worth Rs 2.36 billion in the fiscal year
2014-15, this declined to Rs 767 million in the fiscal
year 2019-20, by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/08/2020)
Nepal-made
clothing brands were enjoying a great run and then the
pandemic hit: With no sales for months, and record low
demands, Nepali clothing brands find themselves in an
unfamiliar position, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
01/08/2020)
The
IFC is looking to scale up investment in Nepal,
interview with Wendy Werner, country manager of
International Finance Corporation (kp 31/07/2020)
Firms
are upbeat about getting credit under refinance
facility: The central bank has adopted a lenient policy
in terms of both amount and loan conditions to hasten
recovery, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 29/07/2020)
Department
of Cooperatives issues 10-point guideline: Loan and
interest payment period can be extended for one year
after approval from regulator (ht 27/07/2020)
Nepal’s
readymade garment sector faces Rs 1.25 billion hit as
foreign buyers cancel orders: As the garment sector was
recovering from years of downturns, the virus pandemic
has emerged as a big setback for the sector, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 26/07/2020)
Revitalizing
foreign investment, by Bishal Thapa (ae 24/07/2020)
Small
and medium-sized enterprises are missing out on
e-commerce boom: Lack of linkage between e-retailers and
producers prevents homemade goods from being featured on
online platforms, say entrepreneurs, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 22/07/2020)
Hotels
and restaurants to reopen from July 30 (ht
22/07/2020)
Hopeful
internet firms need to have minimum capital of Rs 40
million: Nepal Telecommunications Authority rolls out
new internet service operation bylaw, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 21/07/2020)
State-owned
mining company remains closed for 12 years (kp
19/07/2020)
Small
entreprises happy over monetary policy as they get cash
lifeline: The central bank said that as of mid-June,
banks have mobilised loans worth Rs 55.54 billion to
29,157 SMEs, by Krishana Prasain (kp 19/07/2020)
Foreign
investment pledges plunge 24 percent due to Covid-19:
Out of a total 46 investment commitment proposals, 37
pledges worth Rs 6.77 billion came from China alone,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/07/2020)
Public
vehicle entrepreneurs are caught between months of
inactivity and growing calls from banks to pay loans:
Even though the government has eased the lockdown for
private vehicles with an odd-even rule, there’s no such
arrangement for public vehicles in sight, by Deepak
Pariyar (kp 02/07/2020)
Proposed
electronic commerce law sent to Industry Ministry for
review: The budget for the next fiscal year has also
accorded priority to online transactions, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 01/07/2020)
Thamel
on the brink of total collapse, by Ashim Neupane and
Aditi Baral (rep 28/06/2020)
Restaurants
and cafes in Kathmandu defy government order: If big
stores can welcome huge crowds, why can’t we open for
our customers? owners ask (kp 26/06/2020)
Lockdown
leaves private hostel owners, students in a fix: Hostel
operators seek help from the government and money from
students to stay afloat. But the government hasn’t
helped, and students themselves are under financial
stress, by Sasmiksha Baral (kp 26/06/2020)
Public
transport entrepreneurs seek government support for
survival, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 17/06/2020)
Restaurant
association to launch home delivery service to keep
business afloat: Restaurants are still closed for
sit-down dining under the new lockdown guidelines,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/06/2020)
Managing
our economy: In order to kick-start the economy,
citizens should receive cash or other means of relief,
by Manoj Kumar Kedia (kp 15/06/2020)
Food
Management and Trading extends home delivery service:
Sastodeal will transport the government company's
grocery products up to 5 km from the Ring Road, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 15/06/2020)
Insurance
firms start paying COVID claims (ht 14/06/2020)
Stores
reopen as Kathmandu emerges from lockdown: Businesses
will see few customers as transport restrictions are
still in place, merchants say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 13/06/2020)
Goverment
sets standards for operating businesses (ht
13/06/2020)
Police
halt operation of businesses in valley (ht
10/06/2020)
Businesses
await easing of lockdown measures (ht 09/06/2020)
Govt
starts process of bringing e-commerce under regulation
(ht 09/06/2020)
Manufacturing
output drops sharply as lockdown restrictions slash
demand: Most of the factories located in the country's
five major industrial corridors are operating at below
capacity, by Krishana Prasain (kp 08/06/2020)
Textile
industry close to collapse for lack of stimulus package:
The budget has failed to address any of the problems
caused by the lockdown, insiders say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 06/06/2020)
Traders
defy lockdown as patience runs thin in Nepal (ht
04/06/2020)
As
the never-ending lockdown continues, taxmen ask business
firms to clear taxes: Taxpayers say they have not been
able to collect cash from the market and are unable to
pay the tax at the moment, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 03/06/2020) [???], Deadline
to pay taxes extended by a fortnight to June 21: The
Inland Revenue Department deferred the deadline after
meeting with widespread criticism for asking citizens to
pay taxes in the middle of a lockdown, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 03/06/2020)
Surkhet
business community announces to open shops and
businesses from today: Calls to ease the lockdown are
getting louder by the day, but Karnali Province
government is waiting for the federal government to take
the decision, by Kalendra Sejuwal (kp 03/06/2020)
Government
to draft new regulations to monitor booming e-commerce
sector: With e-commerce booming during the lockdown,
there is an urgent need to introduce proper standards to
protect consumers, officials say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 31/05/2020)
Budget
announces significant tax exemptions of up to 75 percent
for micro and small industries: The budget for the
upcoming fiscal year has sought to provide remedy to
industries affected by Covid-19, including tourism,
agriculture and small businesses, by Prithvi Man
Shrtestha (kp 29/05/2020)
Retail
merchants running low on stocks as lockdown gets
tighter: The government's ever changing policy has made
it difficult to maintain smooth supply of goods, say
traders, by Krishana Prasain (kp 22/05/2020)
Will
food delivery platforms survive the pandemic? Before the
pandemic hit Nepal, online food delivery was doing good
business. But now, with hardly any revenue, its future
looks grim, by Elisha Shrestha (kp 22/05/2020)
Private
sector threatens to take to the streets if demands not
met in budget (ht 19/05/2020)
Pvt
sector urges govt to review taxes, scrap excise duty
(ht 18/05/2020)
MSMEs
can sustain for only two months if lockdown is
stretched, says study (ht 17/05/2020)
Covid-19
threatens the very survival of restaurants: Nepal's
restaurant industry is one of the worst hit by the
pandemic, and it may become one of the last ones to
recover, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 15/05/2020)
FinMin
Khatiwada says govt can’t afford relief package to
business sector: If you need relief, pay more tax: FM
says to private sector (kh 07/05/2020)
Shoes
and garment makers ponder next move after lockdown cuts
off revenue: There are 1,500 footwear factories in Nepal
which provide 50,000 jobs, by Krishana Prasain (kp
06/05/2020)
Reeling
under virus crisis, IPPAN seeks rescue (ht
06/05/2020)
Industries
may operate on priority basis (ht 06/05/2020))
Extended
lockdown brings many women entrepreneurs to the brink of
failure: Women entrepreneurs are engaged in agriculture,
handicraft, hospitality and other service sectors,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 04/05/2020)
70
Percent Industries Found Flouting Government Decision To
Provide Regular Payment To Workers (rn 02/05/2020)
Unilever
Nepal resumes partial operation: The company produces
around 15,000 tonnes of toothpaste, 6,000 tonnes of soap
and 5,000 tonnes of shampoo annually, by Subash
Bidari (kp 29/04/2020)
Without
immediate support, small and medium enterprises on verge
of collapse: Despite employing a majority of the labour
force and making significant contributions to the GDP,
SMEs rarely feature in policy decisions, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 28/04/2020)
Ad
industry laments revenue loss as lockdown paralyses
economy: During the period mid-March to mid-April, the
ad sector reportedly missed business worth Rs 1.5
billion, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/04/2020)
Food
product factories resume operations at reduced capacity:
Pokhara Industrial Estate, which was shuttered after the
lockdown was announced, threw open its gates on Monday,
by Lal Prasd Sharma (kp 22/04/2020), Govt
plans to let industries operate from next week (ht
22/04/2020)
Panel
to assess corona impact on industries (ht
21/04/2020)
IB
directs insurance firms to start providing coverage
against coronavirus (ht 21/04/2020)
Taskforce
formed to create entrepreneurship environment within
country itself (rep 20/04/2020)
SMEs
seek immediate relief package from govt (ht
20/04/2020)
FinMin
assures relief to virus-hit businesses (ht
1704/2020)
Kalimati
vegetables market resumes operation (ht 15/04/2020)
Dependent
on a daily cash flow and with few savings, small and
medium enterprises risk collapse: The central bank has
announced financial measures for the private sector but
many believe small and medium enterprises will require a
different approach, by Aditi Aryal (kp 08/04/2020)
Start-ups
encounter setback as corona shuts down economy: The
government should provide relief to start-ups by paying
salaries, say experts, by Krishana Prasain (kp
07/04/2020)
Online
order, home delivery rise amid lockdown: Major
supermarkets and online stores see significant surge in
sales (ht 06/04/2020)
Industries
allowed to resume operations with residential workers
(ht 03/04/2020)
All
brick kilns in Nawalparasi (East) in operation despite
the lockdown: Around 1,400 Indian workers are employed
in various kilns in the district; most are happy to stay
put and work, by Narayan Sharma (kp 02/04/2020)
Kalimati
Market To Open Twice A Day To Reduce Crowd, by
Laxman Kafle (rn 30/03/2020)
Companies
tell employees to work from home as virus fears take
hold: Many factories close down after sending their
workers home with paid leave, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 26/03/2020)
Butcher's
shops in the valley take a break as supply and sales
fall: Goat and buffalo imports from India have dropped,
and there are few domestic suppliers, traders said,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/03/2020)
Small
and medium enterprises feel the pinch as the economy
flounders: With handicraft exports down to near zero and
no revenues coming in, closure looms for these firms,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 23/03/2020)
Private
sector seeks relief package from government: Economists
say blanket economic stimulus not needed, by Umesh
Poudel (ht 22/03/2020)
Trend
of customisation seeps in Nepali market as a unique
differentiation point: Customisation of products or
services allows consumers to create their own thematic
designs on existing products or even demand a wholly
custom-made product, by Monica Khanal (kp
22/03/2020)
Government
launches coordinated inspections to curb black
marketeering of essential goods: The Department of
Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection Management
carried out inspections at 161 firms and penalised 57 in
the month of Falgun, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
20/03/2020)
Fewer
customers but no drop in business, say vegetable
sellers: The Kalimati market is receiving 800-850 tonnes
of vegetables daily, according to officials, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 20/03/2020)
Govt
mulls tax rebate, subsidy for businesses hit by
coronavirus (rep 17/03/2020)
Firms
slapped with nearly Rs 10.5 million in fines in first
seven months of fiscal year: Daraz and Sunrise
Agriculture Research Center were fined Rs300,000 each,
the highest penalty of all the firms inspected, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 16/03/2020)
FNCCI
seeks tax filing, loan repayment deadline extension by
three months (rep 14/03/2020)
Firms
seeking loans of up to Rs 5 million don't need to submit
tax certificate (rep 13/03/2020)
Hurdles
come with the terrain in Nepal’s fashion industry: Mishu
Shrestha has worked hard to create a fashion brand that
is going places, by Naresh Newar (nt 13/03/2020)
Nepali
brands that are sewing their way up the social ladder,
sustainably: There is an undoubted consciousness rising
among the people when it comes to purchasing clothing
that is available and purchasing what is sustainable and
ethical. And these brands are leading that change in
Kathmandu, by Tulsi Rauniyar (kp 11/03/2020)
Black
marketeering rife in rural areas of Doti: The District
Administration Office and local governments, however,
are not exercising effective mechanisms to check the
malpractice, locals complain, by Mohan Shahi (kp
10/03/2020)
Grocery
store sales soar on fears of shortages and price hikes:
The current rush to stockpile goods is due to lack of
public trust in the government and its system, experts
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 09/03/2020)
Effective
database systems for co-ops in pipeline, by Rajesh
Khanal (rep 08/03/2020)
Tourism
entrepreneurs ask for 50% waiver in taxes (rep
08/03/2020)
Investment
trends in Nepal: Foreign investment in the energy sector
is comparatively small despite the great hydropower
potential, by Rajesh Bastola (kp 05/03/2020)
Financing
sustainability through international funds: Nepal needs
to explore ways to obtain funds from abroad to close the
investment gap, by Anirvan Ghosh Dastodar (kp
03/03/2020)
Commerce
Department slaps Rs 300,000 fine on e-commerce firm
Daraz: The online shopping marketplace had sought a
review of the penalty following the department’s
February action, by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/03/2020)
Anti-Money
Laundering & Cooperatives, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
23/02/2020)
Govt
to provide up to Rs 5m grant to new innovators (ht
23/02/2020)
Registration
of cottage industries increase in Gorkha, by Narhari
Sapkota (rep 23/02/2020)
Ad
agencies want cards worth upto $5,000 to pay for social
media posts: Nepal’s commercial banks are currently
allowed to provide foreign currency exchange of upto
$3,000 to ‘service importers’, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 20/02/2020)
Election
fever starts gripping FNCCI: Pradhan and Dhakal have
already announced their candidacy for the post of
senior vice-president (ht 19/02/2020)
No
takers for mall spaces, but financiers continue to pour
money into shopping complexes: A desire to replicate
success, a failure to conduct market research, and
changing shopping habits are behind the failure of
malls, say economists, by Anup Ojha (kp 18/02/2020)
Nepal
is open for business. But where is the investment? Being
one of South Asia’s smallest recipient of foreign direct
investment, Nepal needs to improve, by Bishal
Bhattarai (kp 14/02/2020)
Daraz
slapped with Rs300,000 fine for wrong item delivery: The
online seller says the decision was made without
allowing it to internally investigate or amicably
resolve the issue, by Krihana Prasain (kp
11/02/2020)
Investment
climate: Good or bad?Nepal needs to take advantage of
emerging favorable investment climate to boost private
investment from both domestic and foreign investors for
accomplishing its target, by Prabhakar Ghimire (rep
11/02/2020)
Bhairahawa
SEZ lacks key infrastructure, by Rekha Bhusal (rep
09/02/2020)
Nepali
pashmina industry fails to grow despite aid, incentives
(rep 02/02/2020)
Investors
still await construction of electrical sub-station at
Bhairahawa SEZ, by Rekha Bhusal (rep 01/02/2020)
Nepal's
industrial sector is underperforming: An increase in
both installed capacity and capacity utilisation is
needed to reinvigorate the industrial sector, by
Chandan Sapkota (kp 31/01/2020)
Govt
seeks more teeth to make market inspection effective
(rep 31/01/2020)
Nepali
entrepreneur turns trash into cash: The story behind the
entrepreneur behind the Khaalisisi initiative, by
Naresh Newar (nt 31/01/2020)
Capacity
utilisation of Nepali industries falls to 57.1pc (ht
30/01/2020)
Bookstores'
decision to halt imports places attention once again on
taxes on books: Responding to the decision, many on
social media have decried the taxation of books on the
grounds that reading is about learning and education,
by Shashwat Pant (kp 30/01/2020)
Private
sector borrowing falls by Rs 24 billion: The private
sector has been complaining about the growing tendency
of the government to control them, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 26/01/2020)
Young
Entrepreneurs Summit-Women to be held this month (ht
20/01/2020)
Government
to review rent in Bhairahawa SEZ again (ht
17/01/2020)
Space
for hire: The special economic zones have failed to
attract tenants (kp 16/01/2020)
Govt
gearing up to establish 32 industrial villages at local
levels (ht 15/01/2020)
Government
balks at deregulating the money-making petroleum sector:
The reluctance to loosen its grip on the oil trade may
be due to Nepal Oil Corporation's massive revenues, say
industry watchers, by Krishana Prasain (kp
13/01/2020)
Six
years on, Nepal’s first economic zone struggles to find
investors: This fiscal year, the government has
allocated Rs820 million budget for the economic zone in
Bhairahawa but not a single rupee has been spent, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 10/01/2020)
Cooperative
movement in Nepal: Still going strong, by Uttam
Maharjan (ht 07/01/2020)
Industrual
villages in local units: Local units told to propose
potential sites, by Sujita Pradhan (rep 06/01/2020)
Foodmario:
Made-to-order food whose time may have come: The startup
fulfills more than 100 orders per day at an average Rs
600 per order, by Krishana Prasain (kp 06/01/2020)
Nepal
secures nearly $12 billion from Investment Summit 2019:
Of the 50 infrastructure projects, 20 are still in the
IBN basket as the board did not receive any proposals
from investors, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 04/01/2020)
Contractors
can get extensions on delayed projects, but they cannot
participate in new bids: Newly-amended Public
Procurement Regulation has set the new rule for builders,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 02/01/2020)
Wedding
season brings little cheer to jewellery dealers: Sales
plunged 50 percent as bridal customers stayed away due
to the high prices, by Krishana Prasain (kp
18/12/2019)
Start-up
ecosystem is lacking in Nepal, say global business
speakers: Rara Biotech, a women-run startup company
working in the agriculture sector, secured an investment
of Rs10 million after participating in a recent business
boot camp (kp 18/12/2019)
Lack
of market worries cement manufacturers, by Arpana
Ale Magar (ht 18/12/2019)
Betel
nut industry in Jhapa collapses after India bans
imports: Buoyed by the prospects, the government had
even declared Jhapa a betel nut zone, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 17/12/2019)
Govt
to minimize paperwork to register public limited
companies (rep 17/12/2019)
Staying
ahead of the digital advertising curve with AdMana's
cross channel platform: The company’s platform connects
millions of confirmed users, harvests insights into
their interests and helps brands build target campaigns
based on geo-tagging and demographic marketing, by
Prahlad Rijal (kp 16/12/2019)
Government
officials, experts argue over proposed cement standards:
The cement lobby doesn’t want the grade changed, and the
issue has become politicised, officials said, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 13/12/2019)
Search
engine marketing is shaking up the industry: Many ad
agencies have started adopting digital marketing to
cater to market demand, by Krishana Prasain (kp
08/12/2019)
One
year on, industrial village yet to come into operation
in Dhankuta (ht 07/12/2019)
Two
decades on, SEZ fails to impress investors, by Dilip
Poudel (rep 07/12/2019)
Nepal
no country for expats’ spouses?, by Umesh Poudel (ht
05/12/2019)
Udayapur
Cement upgrading production capacity to 1,100 tons,
by Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 04/12/2019)
Sundar
Yatayat to assemble electric vehicles in country (ht
02/12/2019)
Washmandu:
Online laundry service aims to ‘hurt the dirt’: The
startup handles a payload of 200 kgs of dirty clothes
daily, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 02/12/2019)
A
women-run factory producing sustainable goods in
MahendranagarThe factory produces hand-made brooms and
other products made of bamboo, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
01/12/2019)
One
Stop Center starts issuing approval for repatriation
(rep 27/11/2019)
E-commerce
platforms make profits but eschew responsibility:
Although companies say they are not responsible for
issues that arise between buyers and sellers on their
platform, consumers rights advocates disagree, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 25/11/2019)
Construction
of flood-hit cement factory starts, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 21/11/2019)
Five
factories exit Bhairahawa SEZ , by Dilip Poudel (rep
21/11/2019)
Cheaper
readymade garments eating into small-scale tailoring
businesses: Nepal imported readymade garments worth Rs7
billion in the first two months of current fiscal year,
compared to Rs3.9 billion in the same period last year,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/11/2019)
Road
department bars subordinate bodies from preparing bid
package over Rs500 million: The move is aimed at
stopping collusion among builders and checking the
mobilisation cost, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
18/11/2019)
1000
Women Entrepreneurs Seminar next week (ht
16/11/2019)
FCAN
to protest if government does not revise amended
procurement rules again (ht 14/11/2019)
Enraged
locals slam contractor for dilly-dallying in expanding
Bhaktapur-Nagarkot road, by Krishana KC (rep
14/11/2019)
Power
at play to extend Gokarna Forest Resort lease for Yeti
Holdings, by Sunil Sapkota (rep 14/11/2019)
Liquor
factories prepare to re-operate after 6-month shutdown,
by Binod Subedi (rep 14/11/2019)
Only
47% of FDI commitment materialized in 5 years, by
Rajesh Khanal (rep 13/11/2019)
Packaged
food factories proliferate in Rupandehi: There are 21
large plants in the district, most of them producing
noodles, biscuits, pulses, oil and flour, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 12/11/2019)
Govt
bars firms from making int'l payments for software
services, by Sagar Ghimire (rep 11/11/2019)
FNCCI
steering committee meet on special AGM postponed (ht
08/11/2019)
Why
has Nepal failed to attract enough foreign direct
investment? Foreign direct investment is vital for
accessing new technologies, business practices, and
markets, especially when the country aims for the
middle-income tag, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
07/11/2019)
Market
monitoring is a farce: In the long run, the government
should focus on ensuring adequate supply and fair market
practice, by Roshee Lamichhane (kp 07/11/2019)
Foreign
investment pledges double in first quarter: Nepal
received commitments worth Rs10.76 billion between
mid-July and mid-October, by Krishana Prasain (kp
05/11/2019)
New
rule means contractors need to use bank credit in public
construction projects: Contractors lobbying against the
provision say it limits their ability to participate in
more bids and adds up to their costs, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 31/10/2019)
Gold
traders expecting Rs10 billion worth of sales during
Dhanteras and Tihar: Festive gold sales subdued due to
high prices of precious yellow metal, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 27/10/2019)
CNI,
NRNA ink pact to promote FDI in Nepal (ht
26/10/2019)
Has
doing business become easier in Nepal? Depends who you
ask: Despite the progress in rankings, Nepal has made
starting a new business more difficult, by Prahlad
Rijal (kp 25/10/2019)
Plan
for new industrial area hits a snag over location
dispute: The site for the proposed industrial area falls
at a buffer zone of Parsa National Park, by Pratap
Bista (kp 22/10/2019)
Business
of sugar less even in festive season, by Prem
Punthoki (rep 20/10/2019)
Government
plans e-commerce platform for Nepali microenterprises:
Currently, such enterprises have limited knowledge about
selling their products online, putting them out of reach
of potential customers, especially in the export market,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 13/10/2019)
Central
bank report urges financial literacy training for
entrepreneurs: According to the Financial Sector
Development Strategy, small and medium enterprises
created 1.7 million jobs, by Krishana Prasain (kp
12/10/2019)
First
Nepal-German Business Forum concludes: German
Vice-minister Norbert Barthle arrives today (ht
03/10/2019)
Government
is attempting to control the private sector,
businesspersons allege: While the Finance Ministry’s
measures are good, they’re being implemented in a way
that creates hassles, they say, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 02/10/2019)
Govt
intensifies market monitoring: 140 stores fined Rs 2.38
million on the spot, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep
02/10/2019)
Local
clothing brands are set to give international labels a
run for their money: As Nepal’s readymade garment toils
abroad, manufacturers are launching their brands and
looking within to tap new customers, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 30/09/2019)
Nepal
needs to learn that merely building industrial parks
won’t do: The country can learn a lot from India to
attract foreign manufacturing, such as slashing
corporate tax rates and implementing favourable policies,
by Paban Raj Pandey (kp 30/09/2019)
Government
preparing to revive seven sick state-owned enterprises
(ht 30/09/2019)
Many
traders found not issuing bills to shoppers, says
government body: The Department took action against 170
unscrupulous traders during mid-July to mid-September
period, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 28/09/2019)
Investment
summit kicks off in Rupandehi: Conference targets to woo
Rs50 billion in new investments across various sectors,
by Amrita Anmol (kp 27/09/2019)
Manufacturing
slack, low FDI inflow likely to crimp Nepal’s economic
growth: Foreign investment is key, but the country needs
to increase exports and focus on agriculture, tourism
and IT to sustain growth, analysts say, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 22/09/2019)
Govt
to auction imported vehicles parked at Birgunj
customs office: Automobile importers yet to collect over
350 vehicles, by Umesh Poudel (ht 20/09/2019)
Ambiguous
regulation puts nearly 1,500 contracts at termination
risk: The Public Procurement Regulation has a provision
of extending deadlines of expired contracts, but it does
not specify which project gets extension, officials say,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 18/09/2019)
“Projects
in Nepal are not structured properly”, interview
with Moazzam A Mekan, head of Public-Private Partnership,
South Asia, of the International Finance Corporation (ht
17/09/2019)
Credit
information centre of cooperatives is in the pipeline:
There are over 13,500 savings and credit cooperatives
with 3.45 million members across the country, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 16/(09/2019)
Insurance
firms told to follow new method of calculating bonus:
According to the board, a total of 1,201,463 people
purchased a life insurance policy in 2018-19, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 15/09/2019)
FinMin
urges investors to invest in Nepal (ht 12/09/2019),
‘Nepal
needs to do more than hold summits to lure foreign
investment’: Experts say foreign investors often lose
enthusiasm and back out after encountering bureaucratic
hassles, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 13/09/2019)
Nepal
Reinsurance Company plans Rs1.6 billion initial public
offering: The company applied to the Securities Board of
Nepal on Sunday for approval, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
10/09/2019)
Let
women entrepreneurs rise: By ignoring special needs of
female entrepreneurs, we are missing an opportunity to
modernize the country. Female workers are in a position
to contribute to the country’s growth, by Biswo
Poudel (rep 09/09/2019)
Udayapur
Cement suffering monthly loss of Rs 30m due to erratic
power supply, by Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep
08/09/2019)
Bhairahawa
SEZ operating, but with a single industry (ht
07/09/2019)
204
firms fined on the spot for flouting consumer law,
by Muna Sunuwar (rep 07/09/2019)
Entrepreneurs
studying investment prospects in Province 1, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 04/09/2019)
Everest
Hotel plans a comeback without clearing outstanding
dues: Department of Tourism says the five-star property
owes Rs103.5 million to the government, by Sangam
Prasain. (kp 04/09/2019)
Shailung
Construction among builders warned for poor progress in
road projects: The construction firm owned by Sharada
Prasad Adhikari, the landlord of NCP Co-chairman Pushpa
Kamal Dahal, is currently holding contracts for over
half a dozen road projects, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 03/09/2019)
Dhaka
business flounders for lack of new designs: Weavers face
unemployment as their traditional products no longer
sell, by Prakash Baral (kp 03/09/2019)
Nepali
footwear losing charm, export drops 27 percent: Local
manufacturers have been focusing on expanding their
domestic market share while putting low focus on export
, by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/09/2019)
Rural
Nepal fuels appetite for fast moving consumer goods:
FMCG products such as noodles, biscuits, snacks,
toothpaste, toiletry soap, shampoo, tobacco are the
major products being consumed in rural parts of the
country, manufacturers say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
02/09/2019)
Betting
on foreign investment: We need to find out the reason
why investors are not encouraged to invest in Nepal
despite having political and policy stability with
federal system of governance, by Purushottam Ojha
(rep 02/09/2019)
As
gold hits record high, Teej shoppers opt for imitation
jewellery: Jewellery business owners say sales of
ornaments made to look like gold are up 15 to 20 percent
this year, by Krishana Prasain (kp 31/08/2019)
Firms
not displaying prices of products and services to be
fined: Traders or service providers found violating the
rule may be fined Rs50,000 to Rs100,000, by Subash
Bidari (kp 31/08/2019)
Why
SUVs will dominate Nepal's auto market: Growing
preference for recreational driving fuels sales of sport
utility vehicles, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 28/08/2019)
Breaking
stereotypes and making wine: Binita Pokhrel followed her
dream of starting her own business and opened Pure Joy,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 26/08/2019)
How
a startup became Nepal's leading ride-hailing firm,
by Aditi Baral (rep 26/08/2019)
Nine
insurance companies miss deadline to increase capital:
The insurers had been directed to raise their paid-up
capital by mid-July, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
29/08/2019)
Firms
guilty of malpractice are fined over Rs 4 million:
Guilty firms face little to no legal action for engaging
in bad market practices other than a cash penalty,
consumer rights activists say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 25/08/2019)
Government
implements national strategy for e-commerce sector: The
online marketplace is growing steadily despite a late
start, but there are no laws to regulate them, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 24/08/2019)
NOC
too secretive for a public company: The corporation has
stopped sharing its profit-loss details since it started
making gains, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 24/08/2019)
Foreign
direct investment: Improve investment climate, by
Bhubanesh Pant (ht 23/08/2019)
Cooperatives
minister bats for lowering number of cooperatives to
10,000-12,000; Government not in favor of forceful
mergers: Padma Kumari Aryal (rep 23/08/2019)
Lack
of innovation puts pashmina exports in downward spiral:
Shipments dropped 9 percent to Rs168 million in the last
fiscal year, by Krishana Prasain (kp 22/08/2019)
The
art of making—and drinking—Marpha brandy: Distilled from
the fermented mash of the apple itself, much of the
stuff sold in Marpha falls into the category of fruit
brandy, by Chase Brush (kp 19/08/2019)
Disputing
foreign direct investment: Nepal’s investment strategy
should be designed from a legal, not just policy,
perspective, by Sabrina Singh (kp 19/08/2019)
‘Nepali
market for beers is changing with consumers’ preferences
for alternative tastes’: Thomas Nösner on Nepal’s beer
scene and its adaptability with the international brands,
interview with Thomas Nösner (kp 19/08/2019)
Permanent
account number rule to come into force despite calls for
deferral: The private sector said implementation should
be postponed because of practical difficulties, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 19/08/2019)
FNCCI
calls special AGM on November 15 to amend its statute
(ht 17/08/2019)
Cement
factories are violating standard manufacturing
practices: Bureau report: Some companies were ordered to
do a product recall but they did not comply, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 13/08/2019)
Dismantling
cartels and ‘cartelpreuners’: Signs are emerging that
will make cartels in Nepal lose their clout, by
Sujeev Shakya (kp 13/08/2019)
No
more cash on the nail: The government’s decision to grant
mobilisation advance to contractors only after they
commence work is much-needed (kp 12/08/2019)
Taxi
association set to wage war against Pathao, by Sujeeta
Pradhan (rep 12/08/2019)
Uncertainty
surrounds Industrial Park of Damak, by Yubaraj Bibash
(rep 04/08/2019)
Rift
in FNCCI over statute amendment, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
02/08/2019)
So
you’d like to do business in Nepal? The rule banning FDI
less than Rs50 million is a slap in the face of small and
medium enterprises, by Ritu Pradhan Malla (nt
02/08/2019)
NFC,
NTL to diversify business to be competitive in market
after merger: Merged entity to operate fair price ships in
all provinces, build business complexes in major cities,
by Nikeeta Gautam (rep 01/08/2019)
Freight
forwarders say new cargo tracking system has increased
costs: Traders pay Rs4,200 extra per container to fit the
electronic device, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 30/07/2019)
There
are significant investment barriers in Nepal, US report
says: The report also mentions ‘petty bureaucracy’-based
hindrances impeding smooth conduct of business, by
Prahlad Rijal (kp 27/07/2019)
Cooperatives
Department to impose interest rate cap on loans:
Stakeholders say the new provision will reduce risks for
depositors, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 24/07/2019)
Standards
bureau enforces a slew of quality control measures in
cement industry: The body says that the manufacturers
would be provided time to implement the new regulation,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/07/2019)
Reimagining
Nepal Oil Corporation: When necessary, NOC must leverage
its strategic collaboration with Indian Oil Corporation
to ensure that technological advancements are made for
smooth supplies of fuel into our country, by Sunil
Bahadur Thapa (rep 24/07/2019)
Govt
takes action against 19 traders in Kalimati,
Balkhu (ht 20/07/2019)
Cottage,
small industries rue mandatory PAN rule for salary
payment: Seek an additional six mobths to enforced new
rule (rep 19/07/2019)
Sometimes,
it’s better to cut off dying industries: Joseph
Schumpeter’s creative destruction should be applied to
the economy, and to politics as well, by Paban Raj
Pandey (kp 19/07/2019)
So
you’d like to do business in Nepal? The rule banning FDI
less than Rs50 million is a slap in the face of small
and medium enterprises, by Ritu Pradhan Malla (nt
19/07/2019)
Nepal
doesn’t grow palm but it still exports billions worth of
palm oil: Nepali traders are importing crude palm oil,
refining it and exporting it under a SAARC agreement to
India for zero tariffs, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
17/07/2019)
Digital
development and e-commerce in Nepal: Even with the
government’s adoption of an e-commerce strategy, there
is a lot more to do to expand the digital market, by
Madhu K. Marasini (kp 15/07/2019)
Traders
unhappy with government’s poor market supervision:
Market monitoring is conducted only during Dashain and
Tihar, by Krishana Prasain (kp 13/07/2019)
Cooperatives
members required to end multiple memberships by
mid-October 2020 (rep 13/07/2019)
Private
sector asks for more time to implement electronic
invoice, PAN for workers (rep 13/07/2019)
IBN
plans to sign MoUs with foreign investors: The board is
preparing to pen agreements for three projects worth
over Rs 200 billion (ht 12/07/2019)
Domestic
cement to get 43-grade, 53-grade quality certification
(ht 11/07/2019)
Factories
operating at 60% capacity, shows NRB report: NRB
officials optimistic, but industrialists say more room
for improvement, by Sagar Ghimire (rep 11/07/2019)
Kailali
industrial estate project in limbo: EIA report gathers
dust in environment ministry, by Yogesh Rawal (rep
11/07/2019)
Startups
and the funding gap: Simply throwing money at Nepali
startups is exactly how not to create a sustainable and
thriving ecosystem, by Dipta Shah (kp 10/07/2019)
Government
relaxes location requirement for casinos: Casinos and
electronic gaming houses allowed to operate up to a
distance of 3 km from the international border,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 06/07/2019)
Half
of the business firms are off the grid, census report
says: Most of the unregistered enterprises are wholesale
and retail outlets and auto repair shops, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 04/07/2019)
41
enterprises receive FDI as one- stop service center
comes into operation, by Nikeeta Gautam (rep
03/07/2019)
Bhairahawa
SEZ fails, repeatedly, to call tender bid for
sub-station, by Rekha Bhusal (rep 27/06/2019)
Scaling
up entrepreneurship: Most entrepreneurs in Nepal
struggle to survive. Scaling up and building a
world-class business is a far cry for many of them,
leading to mental health crisis in entrepreneurial
community, by Surath Giri and Saurabh Shah (rep
26/06/2019)
Hyatt
Regency shuts down operations: The decision follows a
tussle between workers and management, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 18/06/2019), Hyatt
resumes services: Labour office to moderate discussions
between workers and hotel management (ht 20/06/2019)
City
authority says it will auction off goods confiscated
from street vendors: Kathmandu Metropolitan City has
seized goods worth Rs 1.5 million in four months, by
Anup Ojha (kp 18/06/2019), Street
trade and social justice: The government must adopt
clear rules for responsible vending (kp 19/06/2019),
Street
vendors censure city’s plan to auction off goods seized
from them: Nepal Street Vendors Trade Union demands
alternative space to run their ‘business’, by Anup
Ojha (kp 22/06/2019)
Government
agrees to unfreeze bank accounts of transport committees
that have registered as companies: The task of
unfreezing and facilitating them to conduct normal
operations will be completed by mid-July, officials said,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 17/06/2019)
Big
beer companies have a monopoly on the market. Now some
beer lovers want to change that, by Thomas Heaton
(kp 15/06/2019)
Govt
gets Rs 9.89 billion in dividend from only seven PEs
(rep 14/06/2019)
Making
SEZs successful: We need to ensure that SEZs which are
showing up for operation set a trend for other such
zones in various stages of development, by
Purushottam Ojha (rep 13/06/2019)
Plan
to merge cooperatives stalls due to lack of clear
policy: Budget contains no incentive package for
amalgamated cooperatives, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
11/06/2019)
Nepal
Cottage and Small Industries Expo sales hit Rs 50
million: A total of 195 stalls, comprising cottage and
small entrepreneurs from 77 districts, welcomed 180,000
visitors, by Krishana Prasain (kp 10/06/2019)
Govt
mulls opening Simara GPZ for other sectors: Garment
entrepreneurs reluctant to inject investment inside the
protected zone (ht 10/06/2019)
Investors
brush off recent budget announcement: Investors are now
waiting for the central bank to announce market-friendly
policies instead, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/06/2019)
Entrepreneurs
reluctant to move into Special Economic Zones, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 08/06/2019)
Finance
Ministry drafts new law to streamline public
enterprises: Public enterprises have been bedevilled by
fickle government policies that change with every
change of administration, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
06/06/2019)
Rs
50 million minimum threshold for foreign investment
invites criticism from private sector: While some in the
private sector want a higher threshold, others believe
it should be much lower to facilitate competition
in the market, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 04/06/2019)
In
defence of small investments: With a liquidity crisis
and the low-risk appetite of banks, Nepal needs smaller
foreign investments, too, by Siddhant Raj Pandey (kp
03/06/2019)
Wood
apple juice factory turns boon for rural women:
Established with an initial investment of Rs460,000 five
years ago, the factory now provides jobs to 100 women,
by Pratap Ranamagar (kp 03/06/2019)
One-third
of public enterprises post net loss despite heavy
funding: The net profit of 26 state-run enterprises rose
by a marginal 4.88 percent to Rs43.44 billion (kp
03/06/2019), Fragile
enterprise: Government should shutter sick public
enterprises; reallocate resources (kp 04/06/2019)
Large
building firms and state agencies are colluding to limit
competition: Authorities amend public procurement
regulation to discourage the practice, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 02/06/2019)
Investors
doubt government budget will drive market, address
underlying problems, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
02/06/2019)
Budget
provides incentives for start-ups—without defining what
start-ups are: This lack of clarity means that
ride-sharing apps Tootle and Pathao, facing large
tax liabilities, are unsure whether they can take
advantage of the new provision, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 01/06/2019)
Plan
to involve co-ops in economic activities likely to be a
non-starter, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 01/06/2019)
Only
26 PEs booked profit in 2017-18 (ht 30/05/2019)
Tiger
Palace Resort puts its property up for sale: At least
four Nepali companies are interested in buying the
property valued at $33 million, by Anil Giri and
Sangam Prasain (kp 29/05/2019)
Huawei
smartphone sales plunge 60 percent after Google ban
(kp 29/05/2019)
Right
To Business Hours, by Kamal Parajuli (rn 29/05/2019)
Government
sets minimum threshold for foreign direct investment at
Rs 50m (ht 24/05/2019)
Laid-off
workers demand payment from Unilever, by Pratap
Bista (kp 22/05/2019)
Private
sector seeks interest rate stability, simplified tax
rules (ht 22/05/2019)
Disintegration
of business: Efforts by industries to contest the
retroactive electricity bills raised by Nepal
Electricity Authority illustrates how businesses have
lost control of their narrative, by Bishal Thapa
(rep 21/05/2019), High
court orders five firms to pay tariffs as determined by
NEA (rep 21/05/2019)
Poised
to scale new peaks: The country may be land-locked, but
its location is an asset that can be leveraged to
attract more investments, by Hans Peter Lankes (kp
17/05/2019)
Social
media changing the fortunes of new entrepreneurs,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 17/05/2019)
One
Stop Service Centre to cut hassles for investors, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 16/05/2019), DoI
starts one-stop service center: 14 government agencies
start providing services under one roof (rep
16/05/2019)
First
factory in Bhairahawa SEZ starts production: Shakti
Minerals has started production of flux and dolomite,
by Mohammad Habib (rep 15/05/2019)
Cooperatives
go rogue for lack of supervision, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 13/05/2019)
Govt
opens Simara GPZ for investment (ht 13/05/2019)
Online
trading system full of flaws, taskforce report finds,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 11/05/2019)
Expectations
Of The Private Sector, by Shanker Man Singh (rn
11/05/2019)
One-stop
service centre for investors to open next week, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 07/05/2019)
Investment
pledges shrink to one-third, by Krishana Prasain (kp
07/05/2019)
Nepal’s
first garment processing zone invites investors to build
plants, by Krishana Prasain (kp 06/05/2019)
Private
sector urges SAARC nations to invest in Nepal (kp
04/05/2019)
Power
sector development: Attract Nepali investors, too, by
Devendra Adhikari (ht 03/05/2019)
Insurance
Board unveils incentives to encourage insurers to merge,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 01/05/2019)
After
nearly two decades of inactivity, Bhairahawa special
economic zone sputters to life, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 27/04/2019)
Protect
emerging
industries, not zombies: Nepal must focus on industries
where it has comparative advantage. There is no point in
protecting industries that will lose out to outside
competition anyway, by Paban Raj Pandey (kp
23/04/2019)
Societal
Saving
and Credit Co-op goes into liquidation: A Cabinet
meeting last month decided to declare Societal a
problematic institution, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
23/04/2019)
IBN
receives EoIs for 31 projects worth $25.3bn (ht
22/04/2019)
Government
yet to set minimum threshold for FDI, by Sujan
Dhundana (ht 20/04/2019), IBN
extends deadline for foreign investors to apply for
projects (ht 20/04/2019)
Two
women entrepreneurs launch handmade-garments brand Voto,
by Diya Dhakal (rep 20/04/2019)
Sri
Darji
Versus Mr Tailor: Nepal's déjà Vudevelopment Debate: The
Summit Declaration describes such developments as
ku-bikas (mal-development) and not su-bikas (or
apt-development), by Dipak Gyawali (sp 19/04/2019)
Government
to promote value-added gem exports, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 18/04/2019)
27
youth entrepreneurs set up notebook factory investing Rs
150 million, by Mohammad Habib (rep 16/04/2019)
Post-summit
thoughts:
Investment Summit was a grand success. Now the
government should establish effective follow up
mechanism by maintaining database of potential global
investors, by Prabhakar Ghimire (rep 14/04/2019), Post-summit
challenges:
If 2019 summit is to be different from the past ones in
terms of outcomes, Nepal should improve its
ease-of-doing-business status, by Bhairab Raj Kaini
(rep 16/04/2019)
Made-in-Nepal
leather goods in high demand, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 13/04/2019)
Co-ops
to be restricted from charging exorbitant interest rates,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 12/04/2019)
Is
FDI
bad for small & cottage industries? Foreign
investment in small scale industries emboldens them to
do better in both the national and international markets,
by Jagadish Prasad Bist (kp 10/04/2019)
Whose
Investment
Summit? Nepal Investment Summit 2019 asked for US $ 31
billion to establish a monopoly State. Only persons
missing from the summit were people of Nepal, by
Bishal Thapa (rep 09/04/2019)
Achievements
Of Nepal Investment Summit, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
04/04/2019)
Diversifying
foreign
investment: If Nepal can diversify foreign investment it
will contribute to enabling the country to balance
regional and global powers and pursue an independent
policy, by Sujit Mainali (rep 03/04/2019)
Young
women entrepreneurs find the going tough in Nepal,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 03/04/2019)
Kudos
with caution: The provincial governments were not given
much space at the investment summit, by Achyut Wagle
(kp 02/04/2019)
With
investments pouring in, cement producers fear supply
glut (rep 01/04/2019)
Two
provinces
make the most of Investment Summit: Province 2 and
Sudurpaschim Province made a genuine attempt to woo
investors by providing details of the incentives they
would offer, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/04/2019)
Well
begun, not yet done: Now that the Nepal Investment
Summit is over, let the hard work begin, by Sailesh
Tiwari (kp 01/04/2019), Lopsided
priorities:
Red-tape, corruption, dilly-dallying and rent-seeking
mentality are the major problems the potential investors
often face (ht 01/04/2019)
Women
Entrepreneurs’ Fair likely to see Rs 50m in sales
(kp 01/04/2019)
Investment
summit
showcases the country’s mega projects—and its gender
disparity: The biggest stage for business and investment
fails to provide stage for women entrepreneurs and
investors, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 30/03/2019)
IME
group to set up Rs10b cement factory in Nawalparasi East,
by Narayan Sharma (kp 29/03/2019)
Ambiguity
concerns
as government gears up for investment summit: Experts
find contentious provisions such as contract
manufacturing operations by multinational companies that
can detract investors, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
26/03/2019), Nepal
Investment
Summit: What happens after the hype?Nepal’s business
community is cautiously optimistic about the upcoming
mega-summit that the government says will bring hundreds
of international investors, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
27/03/2019), Get
it done: The government will have to act on its promises
consistently to attract potential investments, by
Sarin Ghimire (kp 27/03/2019), Far
from clear blue skies: Little has been done to make the
investment climate more attractive to investors, by
Shashwat Satyal (kp 27/03/2019), Nepal’s
investment
climate has improved, officials say: The two-day
Investment Summit, which will start in Kathmandu
tomorrow, is expected to bring nearly 600 international
delegates, by Sangam Prasain (kp 28/03/2019), Nepal’s
promise and opportunities: With political commitment and
leadership, Nepal will be able to achieve its
development goal, by Hartwig Schafer (kp
28/03/2019), Govt
to set up one-stop service units for investors soon
(rep 28/03/2019), Young
Nepali
IT entrepreneurs feel left behind at Investment Summit:
The event organiser’s failure to give a prominent stage
to Nepal’s growing IT sector is discouraging, say
industry insiders, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 29/03/2019),
Not
just another event: Investment pledges should be
translated into action (kp 29/03/2019), Oli
pitches
Nepal as favourite investment destination: Finance
Minister Khatiwada says recently initiated sovereign
rating will give investors added confidence on making
investments in Nepal, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
30/03/2019), Officials
highlight investment prospects, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
30/03/2019), Investment
Summit
ends on a high note with signing of 15 deals: An upbeat
government pledges more policy reforms and robust
follow-up mechanisms, by Mukul Humagain and Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 31/03/2019), Foreign
investors can expect handsome returns in Nepal, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 31/03/2019)
Market
anomalies still rampant despite hefty fines, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 25/03/2019)
Attracting
FDI: Effective policies needed, by Bhubanesh Pant
(ht 21/03/2019)
Foreign
Investment and Technology Transfer Bill 2019:
Restriction on contract manufacturing draws flak, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 19/03/2019), Change
the law: Foreign investment in small industries could do
more harm than good (kp 21/03/2019)
A
majority of handmade paperfactories closed down in
Bajhang (kp 19/03/2019)
Korean
company
to set up 4-wheeler assembly plant in Nepal: Investment
Board Nepal approves FDI proposal of Rs 10.54 billion
from Motrex Co Ltd, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
16/03/2019)
Lawmakers
slam confusing provisions in investment bill, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 15/03/2019)
Innovation
Fund to help women-led enterprises, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 15/03/2019)
Investment
firms
permitted to mobilise alternative resources: The
provision is expected to help promote capital formation
in new businesses, according to the board, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 14/03/2019)
Private
sector
rues foreign direct investment in dairy industry:
Experts say private firms want to maintain their
longstanding ‘cartel’ in the sector, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 11/03/2019)
Government
to introduce e-commerce regulations, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 06/08/2019)
Online
grocery shopping gaining popularity in Nepal, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 04/03/2019)
Women
entrepreneurs identify tax filing process, lack of
access to finance as major hurdles (rep 02/03/2019)
Huaxin
Cement Narayani all set for construction of cement plant,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 28/02/2019)
Now
or never: Nepal has one last chance to convince foreign
investors it seriously means business, by Sujeev
Shakya (kp 26/02/2019)
Nepali
companies may be allowed to issue bonds in foreign
capital markets (rep 26/02/2019)
Nepal
International Trade Fair slated for March 28 (kp
25/02/2019)
Blast,
arsons
targeting Ncell prompt concerns about business climate:
Police suspect Chand-led party’s involvement in attacks
on mobile company; One injured in Nakkhu explosion dies;
two wounded are receiving treatment, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 24/02/2019)
Foreign
firms flouting govt’s hiring policy, by Umesh Poudel
(ht 23/02/2019)
Women
Entrepreneurship Summit to be held on March 1
(ht 22/02/2019)
Garment
processing
zone slated to be ready in April: It will facilitate
exports of Nepali readymade clothes and minimise the
cost of production, to compete in the global market,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 20/02/2019)
Analysts
urge investors to inject capital into new areas, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 19/02/2019)
Why
Nepal
lags? Attracting foreign investors to Nepal will require
a mapping out of competitive edge over other countries
that compete with Nepal for the foreign money, by
Sukhdev Shah (rep 19/02/2019)
Lost
in the cliché: The Nepali advertising industry must
learn from the greats, by Raghav Gautam (kp
19/02/2019)
Now
is
the most appropriate time to invest in Nepal, prime
minister says: In his Kantipur Conclave inaugural
speech, Oli rolls out red carpet for investors ahead of
investment summit, by Anil Giri (kp 18/02/2019)
Start-ups
face economic challenges but riches await those who
excel, by Krishana Prasain (kp 11/02/2019)
Nepal
Entrepreneurship Summit on Thursday (ht 11/02/2019)
Nepal
Buildcon Int’l expo welcomes visitors, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 09/02/2019)
Stalling
on recognition: The government must recognise and
protect the value of street vendors, by Dwaipayan
Regmi (kp 07/02/2019)
369
products of 250 firms granted NS mark (ht
05/02/2019)
SEZ
firms not getting promised tax rebates, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 05/02/2019)
Used
vehicle market a boon for customers, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 04/02/2019)
Eastern
Region industrialists call off protest programme, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 03/02/2019)
SEZ
factories mostly reliant on imported raw material
(02/02/2019)
Bhairahawa
SEZ to see beginning of production in a week, by
Muhammad Habib (rep 02/02/2019)
Donors,
investors
voice concerns over lack of reforms ahead of investment
summit: ‘Holding this forum before real, bold, and
tangible reforms are made, both to laws and practices,
is premature,’ a US Embassy official says, by Anil
Giri and Mukul Humagain (kp 01/02/2019) [!!!],
Govt
in bid to boost investor confidence, by Roshan S
Nepal (ht 02/02/2019), Little
of
FDI pledged at Investment Summit 2017 realized so far:
FDI investment worth Rs 400 billion on various projects
ongoing: IBN CEO (rep 03/02/2019)
Ride-sharing
services
ridden with issues—from safety and insurance to privacy
compliance: Officials say both Tootle, Pathao must
register as transport operators, by Nayak Paudel (kp
01/02/2019)
Beyond
‘startups vs the government:’ The government’s role is
best served when it becomes a catalyst for innovation,
by Amun Thapa (kp 31/01/2019)
Restaurants
to stop levying service charge on diners, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 30/01/2019), Restaurant
workers oppose decision to drop service charge
(ht 31/01/2019), Workers
threaten to shut down restaurants (ht 02/02/2019), Trade
unions
to shut down restaurants: Demands roll back of the
decision by Restaurant and Bar Association of
Nepal to scrap 10 percent mandatory service charge
(kp 04/02/2019), Restaurant
workers
strike to restore service charge: Employees of four big
restaurants in the Kathmandu Valley the Post talked to
said they were worried about losing a large part of
their salary, by Krishana Prasain (kp 05/02/2019), Trade
unions
postpone plan to shut down restaurants: Hospitality
sector awaits the legal definition of service charge
from the Labour Department, by Krishana Prasain (kp
06/02/2019), Only
a few restaurants take service charge off the menu,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/02/2019)
Industrialists
go
on warpath against high interest rates: The disgruntled
entrepreneurs plan to stage a sit-in outside the central
bank office in Biratnagar, by Bibek Subedi and Leela
Ballav Ghimire (kp 29/01/2019)
Trendy
coffee shops take Kathmandu by storm, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 29/01/2019)
From
a sleepy town to a business hub: Month-long fair in
Salinadi is a good source of income for local residents,
by Anup Ojha (kp 28/01/2019)
5
foreign firms interested in reviving Janakpur Cigarette
Factory, by Ajit Tiwari (kp 28/01/2019)
Morang
businesspeople protest rising lending rates, by
Binod Subedi (rep 27/01/2019)
Status
of FDI in Nepal, by Kushal Pokharel (rn 26/01/2019)
Stakeholders
stress effective application of SEZ Act (ht
25/01/2019)
Ride
Sharing Ventures in Nepal, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
24/01/2019)
Nepal
Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 to be held in February
(rep 24/01/2019)
Digital
distribution lifts Nepali film industry, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 23/01/2019)
A
web of factors hamper probe into offshore investment,
money laundering: Businessmen exploiting legal loopholes
while channelising illicit cash into the country, by
Krishna Acharya and Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/01/2019)
Allo,
a low-cost high-income venture for Parbat women, by
Chhabi Lal Tiwari (rep 19/01/2019)
Entrepreneurs
gather for conclave in Capital (kp 17/01/2019)
Ride-sharing
apps
hit hurdle as state sides with taxi operators: The
recent seizure of motorbikes used by Tootle and Pathao
riders raises concerns about letting tech companies
operate unregulated , by Tsering D Gurung (kp
16/01/2019), Middle
of the road: Government’s reaction to ride-hailing
services should be to step in and update laws—not
restrict innovation (kp 16/01/2019) [There
is special need of insurance and tax payment
regulations!]
Business
accelerator draws 35 applicants, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 16/01/2019)
Relaxing
rules: Laws, policies being revised for investment
summit, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 14/01/2019)
Ruling
party leader Dahal insists on national book policy
(kp 13/01/2019)
Nepal
Oil Corp told to launch reforms or else, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 11/01/2019)
Nepal
gets subscription boxes for menstruation, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 09/01/2019)
Most
insurers failing to meet paid-up capital requirement:
Only five out of 39 insurers meet new capital floor
(rep 09/01/2019)
Export
provision for firms inside SEZ reduced: Companies will
now have to export only 60pc of their produce (ht
09/01/2019)
Construction
work for Panchkhal SEZ to finally begin, by
Madhusudhan Guragain (rep 05/01/2019)
Nepali
chocolate sees spike in demand, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 04/01/2019)
Three
private sector bodies team up to lobby government
(rep 03/01/2019), FNCCI,
CNI, NCC to develop consolidated agenda on business
policy (ht 04/01/2019)
Entrepreneurs
shaking up the health sector, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 02/01/2019)
Legacy
of
Bhawani Rana: The first female President of Nepal’s
largest business organization must somehow find the
courage to reverse the decline of the private sector,
by Bishal Thapa (rep 01/01/2018)
Despite
government commitment, change elusive in Kalimati market
(rep 29/12/2018)
Investment
summit in March 2019 (rep 28/12/2018)
Footwear
Expo 2018 to start on Friday (kp 25/12/2018)
FWEAN
for creating enabling environment for women
entrepreneurship (rep 25/12/2018)
Once
a mighty publication, Sajha struggles amid financial
woes, by Bibhu Luitel (kp 24/12/2018)
Ninth
NEEK Electro-Tech opens at Bhrikutimandap, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 24/12/2018)
Demand
for
Christmas trees and gifts surge: Santa hats are the best
selling item according to gift shop owners based in the
Valley, by Krishana Prasain (kp 21/12/2018)
Stakeholders
seek govt intervention at Sajha Prakashan (rep
21/12/2018)
Chiefless
Nepal Oil Corp may get new boss soon, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 13/12/2018)
Ministry
to keep close watch on online stores, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 11/12/2018)
E-commerce
platforms cash in on winter, by Krishana Prasain (kp
11/12/2018)
Bhairahawa
SEZ fails to supply electricity to factories, by
Rekha Bhusal (rep 11/12/2018)
Allow
domestic firms to supply excise duty stickers to govt:
PAC (ht 08/12/2018)
Finance
ministry set to dole out Rs 85m to Sajha Prakashan
(rep 04/12/2018)
FDI
falls by 75 percent to Rs 1.54 billion (rep
02/12/2018)
Nepali
contractors barred from bidding for ADB-funded projects:
FCAN, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 28/11/2018)
Heavy
equipment fair attracts 6,000 visitors (kp
26/11/2018)
Boosting
FDI flows: Translate pledge into action, by
Bhubanesh Pant (rep 26/11/2018)
Building
and Construction Expo kicks off in Capital, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 23/11/2018)
Unleashing
e-commerce: Want to become a millionaire? Start selling
online, by Amun Thapa (kp 20/11/2018)
Most
co-ops not linked to online info system, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 19/11/2018)
Unfavourable
business climate stunts growth of firms (ht
17/11/2018)
Driving
licence vendor hits speed bump: Contractor produces only
45,000 digital driving licences of the 500,000
ordered, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 14/11/2018)
Lost
in summit: Tangible outcomes must be met before holding
the next Nepal Investment Summit, by Chandan Sapkota
(12/11/2018)
Women
entrepreneurship: Road to equality & development,
by Pramila Acharya Rijal (ht 12/11/2018)
Business
of smelling nice booms in Nepal, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 12/11/2018)
In
Rupandehi, big money pours into cement industry, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 11/11/2018)
Biratnagar
Jute Mills restarts making sacks after a decade, by
Deo Narayan Sah (kp 08/11/2018)
Soggy
sales: Stringent laws and implementation required to
protect consumer rights (kp 07/11/2018)
Authorities
leave
buyers at traders’ mercy: As consumption picks up during
Tihar, state agencies have deployed only one team
to monitor the market, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
06/11/2018)
High
prices put off festive gold buyers, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 06/11/2018)
Insurance
Board to revise home insurance rates, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 03/11/2018)
Shoppers
throng
Ason ahead of Tihar festival: even though prices of
goods have risen by up to 15 percent, the shopping spree
continues (kp 03/11/2018)
Make
it
easy: Changed system in paying taxes, cumbersome rules,
red tape and corruption make Nepal a difficult place for
doing business (ht 02/11/2018)
Insurers
likely to miss new deadline to boost capital, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 01/11/2018)
FDI
For Economic Growth, by Ramesh Ghimire (rn
29/10/2018)
Domestic
cement output continues to grow steadily, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 28/10/2018)
Khadi
industry
makes a comeback in Khotang: Home based women
entrepreneurs are collaborating with cooperatives for
producing and marketing Khadi garments, by Daman Rai
(rep 28/10/2018)
Land
acqusition for proposed industrial park in final stage
(ht 26/10/2018)
Textile
entrepreneurs threaten to shut business from Nov 1
(ht 25/10/2018)
Cabinet
says to form IEDI in all provinces (ht 15/10/2018)
The
FDI game: It would be wise if the Oli government used
its supermajority to create an investment-friendly
environment, by Paban Raj Pandey (kp 15/10/2018)
Market
monitoring fails to protect consumers (kp
15/10/2018)
FDI pledges down by Rs 1.5 billion: Investment
commitments fell despite government claim of improvement
in doing-business environment, by Dilip Poudel (rep
14/10/2018)
NOC’s
losses expected to balloon as smuggling goes unchecked
(kp 10/10/2018)
Fitness
clubs see surge in demand across Nepal (kp
08/10/2018)
Street
food vendors add colour and life to Kathmandu’s streets,
yet the authorities see them as nothing more than a
nuisance, by Marissa Taylor (kp 06/10/2018)
Market
demand for Nepali noodles spikes (kp 05/10/2018)
Casino
Royale operating without valid licence (kp
28/09/2018)
Online
grocery shopping picks up steam in Nepal, by
Krishana Prasain (rep 28/09/2018)
Micro-insurance
stymied by high transaction costs (kp 27/09/2018), AIRDC
Conference concludes with calls for lowering insurance
cost (rep 27/09/2018)
Retailers
to be enlisted to run fair price shops (kp
25/09/2018)
‘Government
gives top priority to private sector’: Finance minister
vows punitive action against tax dodgers (kp
22/09/2018)
Online
shopping sites to launch festive offers, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 22/09/2018)
‘Co-ops
engage in misconduct due to indifferent members’ (kp
21/09/2018)
Furniture
and Furnishing: Expo opens its doors: More than 80
domestic and international brands have a presence at the
event (kp 21/09/2018)
Government planning another investment summit next year:
Most investment pledges made in previous summit yet to
bet met (rep 20/09/2018)
Daraz
hosts first ever Seller summit in Nepal (kp
20/09/2018)
Strengthening
small
enterprises: To expect that the private sector can play
a lead role in economic growth when SMEs are so ignored
is a mirage, by Madhukar SJB Rana and Atul K Thakur
(kp 19/09/2018)
Board
scraps 51 Kalimati veggie traders’ permits (kp
19/09/2018)
Co-ops
mobilising resources in non-productive sector (ht
18/09/2018)
Co-ops
must focus on production, job creation (ht
17/09/2018)
Conceptualising
Social Entrepreneurship, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
15/09/2018)
Shifting
gears:
After years of being centralised in the Capital, Nepal’s
auto industry is now seeing greater growth outside
Kathmandu, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 12/09/2018)
Capital
to host global insurance conference (ht 10/09/2018)
Govt
tightens
supervision of cooperatives: There are 34,512 primary
cooperatives and 69 district cooperative associations
across the country. They hold Rs302.16 billion in
deposits (kp 07/09/2018)
Call
for red carpet treatment to FDI in priority sectors
(rep 07/09/2018)
Board
cancels permits of six veggie traders (kp
05/09/2018)
Nepal
Reinsurance expands wings in foreign countries (kp
05/09/2018)
Experts
highlight challenges for women entrepreneurs (kp
04/09/2018)
Insurance
regulator to conduct regular onsite inspections (kp
31/08/2018)
Investments
pour into ayurvedic industry, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 30/08/2018)
Policyholders
fourth group to be paid (kp 29/08/2018)
Tea
factories not paying minimum wage to laborers, by
Bhim Chapagain (rep 28/08/2018)
New
fruits, vegetables market coming up in Bharatpur, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 27/08/2018)
‘Youths
will get collateral-free loan to start enterprises’:
Minister Bista says the government will provide up
to Rs 1 million loan without any collateral (kp
27/08/2018)
Nepal
Reinsurance plans to raise Rs 1.6 billion in IPO
(rep 25/08/2018)
Bottled
water factories sealed in Chitwan, by Rajesh Kumar
Poudel (kp 25/08/2018)
Clampdown
on overcharging: Angry vegetable traders manhandle
inspection team (kp 21/08/2018), Normal
trading resumes at Kalimati market: Veg wholesalers ask
govt to monitor retail market as well (rep
23/08/2018)
NOC
revives plan to use colour-coded cylinders: The
state-owned oil monopoly says it makes a loss of
Rs280.64 on every cylinder of gas sold. It has projected
a loss of Rs250 million for next month (kp
20/08/2018)
NEA’s
profit
exceeds Rs1b for second year: Despite posting profits
for two consecutive years, the NEA is a long way from
achieving financial stability as it still has combined
loss of a whopping Rs27.15 billion (kp
18/08/2018)
Alternative
investment fund law being drafted (kp 17/08/2018)
Nepal
Electricity Authority logs profits for second straight
year: Brings down system loss by 6 percentage points to
20 percent (rep 15/08/2018)
Valley
cafes go digital-first with ‘Made in Nepal’ technology,
by Alisha Sijapati (kp 14/08/2018)
National
Economic
Census: Nepal home to 900k businesses; The survey
covered all private and state-owned enterprises,
cooperatives, non-governmental organisations and other
institutions (kp 10/08/2018)
Mega
cement factory set to begin production: The factory will
be able to produce nearly 2,800 tonnes of cement daily,
by Pratap Bista (kp 10/08/2018)
Dreamers
and doers: The government should create policy and a
healthy ecosystem for startups to flourish, by
Madhukar SJB Rana and Atul K. Thakur (kp 09/08/2018)
NCC
decides to withdraw from FNCCI: ‘Cold-war’ between two
business organizations ends with separation (rep
08/08/2018)
NOC
daily
loss drops to Rs10m: NOC loses Rs280.64 per cooking gas
cylinder and Rs1.14 per each litre of diesel while the
state oil monopoly maintains a profit in petrol,
kerosene and aviation fuel (kp 03/08/2018)
Uber
to set up data centre in Kathmandu (ht 03/08/2018)
Loan
against
academic certificates to start by November: Finance
ministry preparing working procedure for the
subsidized-loan scheme (rep 02/08/2018)
Industrial
firms asked to submit reports online (rep
02/08/2018)
Voracious
appetite for online food delivery in Ktm, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 01/08/2018)
Tripureshwor
area rises as surgical goods hub (kp 31/07/2018)
Nepal’s
outsourcing
firms in hot demand: Outsourcing is the business
practice of hiring a 3rd party to perform services and
create goods that traditionally were performed in-house
by the company’s own employees and staff (kp
30/07/2018)
A
post mortem of Nepal’s garment boom: Mallika Shakya’s
new book 'Death of an Industry' holds important lessons
for the country’s trade, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt
27/07/2018)
Demand
for stylish clothes on the rise (kp 23/07/2018)
The
SEZ
blues: Policy gaps in employment and dispute resolution
mechanisms in SEZ Act and Labor Act could lead to a
difficult situation for workers in Nepal, by Saurabh
Shah (rep 22/07/2018)
Bank
deposits surge in line with govt spending (rep
22/07/2018)
Govt
to spend Rs1b to boost micro-enterprises (kp
19/07/2018)
City
cracks down on street vendors to “drive them back to their
villages”, by Sandesh Ghimire (The Record 18/07/2018)
FDI
commitment surged by 266pc last fiscal year (ht
18/07/2018)
Local
apparels riding rising wave of sales, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 13/07/2018)
Govt
mulls allowing Nepal Army to revive Hetauda Textile
Industry (rep 10/07/2018)
Low
production of Yarsagumba disappoints collectors in
Darchula, by Prem Chunara (rep 09/07/2018)
Insurers
told to increase paid-up capital or merge (kp
09/07/2018)
Furnex
Expo to be home decor special (kp 09/07/2018)
KMC
starts seizing street vendor goods, by Diya Dhakal
(rep 07/07/2018)
Higher
interest rate: A setback for entrepreneurs (kp
06/07/2018)
FPOs
fail to attract investors (rep 03/07/2018)
Rolpa
contractors still await payment for projects completed
long ago, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 02/07/2018)
Fresh
KMC drive to evict street hawkers, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/07/2018)
Nepal
pashmina gets boost from Chinese buyer (kp 01/07/2018)
Firms
finally start building factories in Bhairahawa SEZ (ht
29/06/2018)
Eco-friendly
sanitary pads struggle to find market, by Krishna
Prasain (kp 26/06/2018)
IBN
projects fail to attract interest (kp 24/06/2018)
Huaxin
Cement Narayani to build $140m factory: The factory will
produce 3,000 tonnes of cement daily and create 1,000
jobs. This is the second project investment agreement
IBN has signed with a private firm (kp 23/06/2018)
Start-ups
organise gathering (ht 23/06/2018)
Footwear
start-ups make rapid inroads in domestic market, by
Krishna Prasain (kp 22/06/2018)
Shivam
Cement’s IPO set to be a milestone: The cement factory
will be the first of its type to issue public shares
(kp 22/06/2018)
Udayapur
cement says irregular power supply hitting production,
by Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 20/06/2018)
E-scooters
struggle to make the mark in Nepal, by Krishna
Prasain (kp 19/06/2018)
Consumer
electronics sees spike in demand, by Krishna Prasain
(kp 16/06/2018)
Property
Expo 2018 kicks off in Kathmandu (rep 18/06/2018)
Kalimati
vegetable market: Govt says "to act tough against
unscrupulous traders", by Arpana Ale Magar (rep
14/06/2018)
Tiger
Palace operator SHG gets new partner (kp 14/06/2018)
Sastodeal.com
gets investment from Dolma (kp 13/06/2018)
West
Indies tops FDI inflow (ht 13/06/2018)
Automobile
mechanics urged to repair vehicles responsibly (ht
10/06/2018)
Nepali
startups showcase their ideas and products to investors
(kp 10/06/2018)
Saipal
collects Rs2m in fees from yarsa pickers, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 08/06/2018)
Sales
of luxurious vehicles decelerate after duty hike:
Dealers say no queries for high-end automobiles after
the budget (ht 07/06/2018)
Motorola,
Khalti tie up to promote e-payment (kp 06/06/2018)
Most
contracts go to limited few, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal
(rep 06/06/2018)
Liquor
wholesalers earn hefty profit on post-budget sales:
Wholesalers impose new tax rate on old products, by
Rohit Rai (rep 06/06/2018)
BhatBhateniOnline.com
acquired by F1Soft Int’l (kp 05/06/2018)
Capacity
utilisation of industries rises to 58pc, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya
Start-up
expo draws 42 budding firms (kp 05/06/2018)
Erratic
power supply hits industries hard (ht 02/06/2018)
New
Act in offing to bring casinos into line, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 01/06/2018)
FNCCI:
Nepal open to foreign investors (kp 01/06/2018)
Reviving
PEs: Forget it, it’s sunk cost, by Rupak D. Sharma
(ht 01/06/2018)
Let
foreign
investors come: The fear of local entrepreneurs that
they will be wiped out by global brands if multinational
companies are allowed to enter Nepali market is baseless,
by Prabhakar Ghimire (rep 31/05/2018)
FDI
pledges up Rs34.9b in first 8 months: Survey (kp
29/05/2018)
Profits
of state-owned cos swell 18.5pc to Rs42.67b, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 28/05/2018), 11
PEs booked loss in 2016-17 (ht 28/05/2018)
Firms
seek protectionist measures as imports rise unabated,
by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 28/05/2018)
Shopkeepers
dismayed as KMC starts demolishing shops on Dharahara
premises (rep 27/05/2018)
Herb
picking overlooked as alternative income source, by
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 26/05/2018)
Monitoring
body to be set up to check large co-ops (kp
24/05/2018)
7th
property expo to kick off on June 15 (kp 23/05/2018)
Potential
defaulters flocking to poorly managed co-ops (kp
22/05/2018)
Startups
in Nepal: Youth hold the key, by Kalsoom Lakhani and
Meenah Tariq (ht 21/05/2018)
Hongshi-Shivam
cement factory starts trial production: The plant will
be able to produce 6,000 tonnes (120,000 bags) once it
begins commercial operation within a month. The plant
will double its output to 12,000 tonnes daily in the
next two years, by Narayan Sharma (kp 20/05/2018)
Govt
moves to resurrect Nepal Business Forum (kp
16/05/2018)
Industrialists
urge govt to promote Bhairahawa, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 12/05/2018)
Friendly
business clime attracts industrialists, by Shiva
Puri (kp 11/05/2018)
KMC
to raze pavement shops (kp 09/05/2018)
Govt
to
breathe life into two sugar mills: The government
has been intervening the market price of
sugar through Salt Trading Corporation. However, it has
not been effective (kp 09/05/2018)
$24
million equity fund set up in Nepal (kp 03/05/2018)
Temporary
ban
on yarsagumba harvest: The ban would remain until May
11. Anyone caught harvesting the fungus before the
ban is lifted will be fined Rs100,000, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 01/05/2018), 49
arrested for illegally entering Dolpa to pick Yarsagumba
(ht 02/05/2018)
Court
paves
way for new industrial estate: The new industrial estate
is being built in Mayurdhap, Hetauda and will cover
approximately 142 hectares, by Pratap Bista (kp
29/04/2018)
‘Govt
will nationalise closed industries' (ht 29/04/2018)
14th
International Trade fair and Cottage Industry Festival
begins (rep 28/04/2018), 14th
International Trade fair and Cottage Industry Festival
concludes (rep 02/05/2018)
GVA
growth in hotel, restaurant sector to reach 9.77
percent: CBS (rep 26/04/2018)
Locals
make preparations for yarsha harvest season, by Raj
BahadurShahi (kp 21/04/2018)
(Un)registered
trademark: Lack of streamlined laws on intellectual
property rights has hindered foreign investor attraction,
by Suman Kumar Regmi (kp 17/04/2018)
Cooperative-run
fair price shops shut down, by Navin Poudel (kp
17/04/2018)
Regulate
co-ops:
Some unscrupulous cooperative operators have given the
entire idea of this community-based economic approach a
bad name (ht 17/04/2018)
Compensation
process
of Oriental Cooperative depositors begins: Applicants
must submit copies of deposit slips, share certificates
and apartment booking slips (kp 16/04/2018)
Watch
out: Govt must take stern measures to protect
deposit parked at cooperatives (kp 10/04/2018)
Private
investment in industrial estates up, by Umesh Poudel
(ht 09/04/2018)
Savings
and credit cooperatives face possible crisis as stocks
fall’ (kp 06/04/2018)
Co-ops
urged to devise new business policies (kp
05/04/2018)
Bhairahawa
auto village fails to start operation (kp
05/04/2018)
Warsteiner
premium beer launched in Nepal (kp 05/04/2018), Production
of Warsteiner beer in Nepal starts (ht 05/04/2018),
Raj
Brewery starts commercial production of Warsteiner beer
(rep 05/04/2018)
Asian
casino giant faces legal battle in Nepal, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/04/2018)
Int’l
industrial trade fair from April 27 (kp 02/04/2018)
Plan
to set up pashmina wool processing centres in limbo
(kp 02/04/2018)
Construction
of garment processing zone in final stage, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 01/04/2018)
Proposal
to amend FNCCI statute on cards (ht 30/03/2018)
No
inflow: Despite attempts to lure investors, Nepal
remains one of the least attractive countries, by
Mukunda Kandel (kp 30/03/2018)
NOC
wants govt projects to use its bitumen (ht
30/03/2018)
FDI
commitment surged to Rs 38bn till mid-March (ht
28/03/2018)
MoICS
to decide fate of Gorakhkali Rubber Udyog (ht
28/03/2018)
Biratnagar
Jute Mills down shutters again (kp 26/03/2018)
FeNeGoSiDA,
FNGSGJA ink merger pact (ht 26/03/2018)
3rd
International Women's Trade Expo kicks off: Women
entrepreneurs of 30 districts are participating in the
expo (rep 23/03/2018), International
Women Entrepreneur's Expo concludes: Transactions worth
Rs 50 million recorded in five-day expo (rep
27/03/2018)
National
Industrial Products & Technology Exhibition from
Saturday (rep 22/03/2018)
Rising
imports show robust growth in construction sector,
by Ayam Shrestha (rep 21/03/2018)
Weak
intellectual property ecosystem allows counterfeiters to
make hay (kp 20/03/2018)
Transport
syndicate abolished in Rupandehi, by Amrita Anamol
(kp 19/03/2018)
Rupandehi
poised
to transform into industrial hub: Over 300 large firms
have committed an investment of Rs 1 billion each in the
district along with over 600 medium-sized firms, by
Amrita Anamol (kp 18/03/2018)
CNI
submits roadmap of ‘economic prosperity' to govt (ht
16/03/2018), CNI
unveils ‘to-do list’ (kp 17/03/2018)
Int’l
Entrepreneurship Conclave from March 24 (kp
15/03/2018), Indian
Embassy to host ‘Entrepreneurship Conclave’ on Mar 24
(ht 15/03/2018)
FCAN
apprises PPMO of the hike in price of construction
materials: Says price hike has affected many undergoing
projects (rep 15/03/2018)
Nuwakot
festival
earns Rs 20 million revenue: More the 100,000 people
visited the 12-day festival held at Bidur with the
slogan of ‘Prosperous Nuwakot: Our Resolution’
(kp 13/03/2018)
Industry
minister tells pvt sector to increase production
capacity (rep 13/03/2018)
Study
on readymade garments urged (ht 11/03/2018)
Cooperatives
brought under anti-money laundering law, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 10/03/2018)
Kishore
Pradhan elected FNCCI VP (ht 10/03/2018)
Chaudhary’s
fortune rises by $200 million (kp 08/03/2018)
Cement
factories found flouting quality standards, by
Kushal Basnet (rep 06/03/2018)
Biratnagar
SEZ plan in limbo for lack of funds, by Deo Narayan
Shah (kp 05/03/2018)
Lokta
paper factories make a comeback, by Basant Pratap
Singh (kp 05/03/2018)
Rupandehi
turns into cement manufacturing hub, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 04/03/2018)
Co-operative
Congress to mull roadmap (kp 03/03/2018)
NOC
to re-start bitumen business (ht 03/03/2018)
Factories
humming after energy supply increased, by Pratap
Bista (kp 03/03/2018)
Chamber
urges Oli to spur investment (kp 02/03/2018)
Start,
continue, grow and repeat: Young Nepali women
entrepreneurs share their experiences in starting
successful businesses, by Sikuma Rai (nt 02/03/2018)
‘Udhyami
Nepal’ portal launched (kp 01/03/2018), Portal
to provide guidance to entrepreneurs (ht 01/03/2018)
‘State-owned
industries need restructuring’ (ht 01/03/2018)
Damak
industrial area gets govt greenlight, by Arjun
Rajbansi (kp 28/02/2018)
Govt
set
to develop new industrial area in Motipur: The Butwal
Chamber of Commerce and Industry had initiated the
process of developing an industrial estate on 240 bighas
of land in Motipur about 14 years ago, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 27/02/2018)
Book
rush:
The publishing industry in Nepal is booming, despite it
not being able to tap into the growing demand and
appetite for Nepali writers writing in English, by
Sandesh Ghimire (kp 24/02/2018)
Mega
fruit and flower market may miss deadline, again, by
Ayam Shrestha (rep 24/02/2018)
‘Made
in Nepal’ expo slated for March: The exhibition will run
for three days from March 16-18 at Bhrikutimandap
(kp 21/02/2018)
Process
to compensate Oriental victims begins (ht
21/02/2018)
Three
shopping malls coming up in Biratnagar (ht
20/02/2018)
Business
failures: What’s now holding up economic progress? Why
do we not yet have a real prospect for improved
livelihoods?, by Bishal Thapa (rep 20/02/2018)
FDI
realisation doubles this fiscal (ht 18/02/2018)
FDI
flow nearly doubled in H1 of FY2017/18 (rep
15/02/2018)
Are
SEZs
losing appeal among domestic investors? Sound
infrastructural set-up in Special Economic Zones, policy
implementation crucial to attract investors, says FNCCI,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 13/02/2018), SEZ
in limbo: Without regular and required amount of energy,
how can the much-hyped SEZ set up long ago function?
(ht 14/02/2018)
Government
issues
new standards for brick kilns: Official at the
Department of Environment says the new guidelines will
not make much of a difference to Kathmandu Valley’s air
quality (kp 12/02/2018)
Co-ops
that violate rules to be fined up to Rs50m (kp
12/02/2018), Don’t
let them freewheel: Govt should enforce recent
directive to discipline cooperatives (kp
13/02/2018)
Robust
e-payment system must for e-commerce to flourish (ht
11/02/2018), Espouse
e-economy: Prioritise ICT as one of the growing
industries in the country and implement policies
accordingly, by Saurav Bashyal (ht 11/02/2018)
Work
to build factories at Bhairahawa SEZ to begin from April,
by Rekha Bhusal (rep 11/02/2018)
Fourth
Buildcon, Wood expo welcomes visitors (kp
10/02/2018)
Hetauda
hopes to be an industrial hub, by Ashok Ujan
Shrestha (rep 10/02/2018)
Expo
to display building technologies, products (kp
06/02/2018)
Panel
to start work on troubled cooperatives soon (kp
01/02/2018)
Shaktikhor
industrial park begins DPR prep, by Shiva Puri (kp
01/02/2018)
Raging
hormones: Entrepreneurship provides a platform for
youths to leverage their new business ideas, by
Tejeshwi Nath Bhattarai (kp 01/02/2018)
Govt
decides to scrap National Trading Limited
(30/01/2018), Fuel
trade with China in doubt as govt shuts NTL (ht
01/02/2018)
CNI
adopts federal setup (rep 28/01/2018)
NOC
allocates Rs 770m bonus, decides not to distribute it,
by Dilip Poudel (rep 25/01/2018)
Washing
machine sales surge, by Ayam Shrestha (rep
25/01/2018)
Hetauda
Cement facing shortage of limestone, by Pratap Bista
(kp 24/01/2018)
Factories
fail to compete with cheap imports (ht 24/01/2018)
Industries
in
Bhairahawa SEZ yet to get electricity: Nepal Electricity
Authority say the Bhairahawa SEZ is solely responsible
for the impasse (ht 22/01/2018)
As
traditional retail shops flounder, department stores
thrives in East, by Bed Raj Paudel (kp 20/01/2018)
LP
gas bottlers on track after NBSM raid, by Kushal
Basnet (rep 20/01/2018)
Young
Women Entrepreneurs Summit slated for Jan 20 (kp
17/01/2018)
Plans
afoot to operationalise Simara SEZ by next fiscal year
(ht 17/01/2018)
Attracting
FDI: Make it easy for investors, by Bhubanesh Pant
(ht 15/01/2018)
Govt
begins
work on special economic zone in Panchkhal: The
government aims to promote the manufacture of export
oriented goods by building these zones (kp
13/01/2018)
Experts
urge govt to promote SMEs for economic transformation
(ht 12/01/2018)
IB
issues new reporting rules for non-life firms (ht
10/01/2018)
Govt
begins Oriental Co-op takeover process (kp
09/01/2018)
Investment
pledge surges by 256 per cent: Commitment of Rs 15.72
billion received in first five months of fiscal 2017-18
(ht 08/01/2018), Positive
signs:
Although Nepal has been receiving the FDI pledge in
several sectors, the county has failed to materialise
such commitments into reality (ht 09/01/2018)
Government
plans to review export provision in SEZ Act (ht
06/01/2018)
Safety
rules-flouting LPG bottlers to face stern action (kp
05/01/2018), NBSM
to shut gas plants flouting safety rules (ht
05/01/2018), Gas
plants
shut down over safety violations: gas bottlers have been
found to be filling defective cylinders with cooking gas
after merely repairing the safety valves, by Rajesh
Khanal and Nagendra Adhikari (kp 06/01/2018), Gas
bottlers
finally gear up to acquire NS mark: Nepal Bureau of
Standards and Metrology shuts down two LPG bottling
companies of Kavre, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
06/01/2018), 21
gas bottlers apply for NS certification (kp
08/01/2018), 3
more gas bottling factories shut down (kp
09/01/2018), NBSM
gives 15-day deadline to gas companies to acquire NS
mark (ht 09/01/2018)
SC
dismisses petition against standards for lead-based
paint (kp 04/01/2017)
Stock
of FDI reached Rs151.7b in 2016-17, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 04/01/2018)
Birgunj
cement factories on the verge of closure, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 02/01/2018)
Nigerian
firm denied license for limestone mine since 3 years,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 02/01/2018)
New
labour rules to hit outsourcing firms (ht
01/01/2018)
Rs2.5b
garment
processing zone being built in Simara: Exports of Nepali
readymade garments have been declining in recent years
due to lack of product diversification, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 30/12/2017)
50
firms busted for selling inferior food (kp
29/12/2017)
Huaxin
Cement to build $140m cement factory (kp 28/12/2017)
Apex
court clears way for Ncell profit repatriation (kp
25/12/2017)
14th
footwear, leather expo to begin on Dec 28 (kp
25/12/2017)
Half
of petrol pumps do not meet safety norms: NBSM (kp
22/12/2017), Gas
plants operating against government standards, by
Dilip Poudel (rep 24/12/2017)
Govt
plans to call global bids for oil, gas exploration
(kp 22/12/2017)
FDI
reached Rs 115 billion in 2016 (ht 17/12/2017)
Local
hassles create uncertainty for electricity supply to
Bhairahawa SEZ, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
17/12/2017)
YSESF
to aid entrepreneurship development in all 753 local
units (ht 15/12/2017)
14th
footwear, leather expo slated for Dec 28 (kp
13/12/2017)
Dissecting
CSR: Our lawmakers have hastily copied CSR law from
India, without learning anything from India’s
implementation, by Narayan Manandhar (rep
13/12/2017)
Managing
street
entrepreneurs: For assimilation of street vendors in
urban planning, spaces must be viewed as
multi-functional areas, by Biranchi Poudyal (kp
12/12/2017)
Industrial
capacity utilisation hits 3-year high of 57.3pc (kp
10/12/2017)
Chinese
firm to set up $140m cement factory, by Bibek Subedi
(kp 08/12/2017)
600
firms to be linked to central billing system (kp
07/12/2017)
Barred
from hiking prices, NOC slips into red (kp
04/12/2017)
'Promote
local industries, discourage luxury goods imports'
(rep 04/12/2017)
Nepal
Chamber Expo kicks off in the Capital (kp
30/11/2017), 3rd
Nepal Chamber Expo gets underway (kp 01/12/2017), Nepal
Chamber Expo ends with over Rs50m in revenue, by
Abhishek Chitrakar (kp 05/12/2017)
Coca
Cola launches Kinley water in Nepal (kp 29/11/2017)
DPR
of
new industrial area soon: The new industrial area is
expected promote the country’s flagging
manufacturing sector and create jobs (kp 26/11/2017)
Nepal
to take part in Global Entrepreneurship Summit, by
Abhishek Chitrakar (kp 23/11/2017)
Private
sector unveils wish list for next administration (kp
21/11/2017)
Police
arrest Durbarmarg shopkeepers (kp 02/11/2017)
Nepal
up two spots in Doing Biz index (kp 02/11/2017)
Pvt
sector urges govt for business-friendly policies (ht
30/10/2017)
Traders
under scrutiny fail to report to police (kp
28/10/2017)
Government
raises ceiling on land for industries (ht
25/10/2017)
Government
fails to materialise achievements of Nepal Investment
Summit, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 25/10/2017)
Govt
fails to halt price gouging at Durbar Marg (kp
24/10/2017)
Flowers
worth Rs 150 million sold during Tihar (ht
24/10/2017)
Tihar
records sale of Rs652m of gold, silver (kp
23/10/2017), Govt
fails to monitor Tihar bullion market (kp
24/10/2017)
Revival
of sick industries in limbo with change in govt (ht
18/10/2017)
Construction
of International Expo Centre in Bharatpur Metropolitan
City in full swing (ht 16/10/2017)
Land
record dispute of Himal Cement ends (ht 16/10/2017)
Yarsagumba
collectors say buy now, pay later, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 13/10/2017)
Sluggish
SME development hurts economy’ (ht 12/10/2017)
FWEAN
elects new leadership (rep 11/10/2017)
Market
monitoring upped as Tihar festival nears (kp
10/10/2017)
Govt
delays YSESF’s proposal (ht 09/10/2017)
Police
set
to file cases against branded stores in question: It is
the first time that the government authority has
initiated action against the branded stores (kp
07/10/2017)
Transport
of HR sheet coils: 'Unfair' traffic rule benefiting some
industries, harming others, by Ritesh Tripathi (rep
07/10/2017)
Three
non-life firms get LoI (ht 07/10/2017)
Udaypur
losing Rs2.5m daily due to power cuts, by Dilli Ram
Khatiwada (kp 03/10/2017)
Goat
sales
at Kalanki off to a slow start: 30,000 goats have been
sold in the first week of Dashain, a sharp drop from
50,000 goats sold last year (kp 28/09/2017)
Kite
sales plummet, by Abhishek Chitrakar (kp 28/09/2017)
Liquor
sales surge as Dashain festivities begin, by
Abhishek Chitrakar (kp 27/09/2017)
Goat
sales in KTM likely to go up by 10 percent, by
Abhishek Chitrakar and Yamini Bantawa (kp 23/09/2017)
Market
inspections to continue during Dashain holidays (kp
22/09/2017)
Alpine
meat factory closed in just 5 mths, by Harihar Singh
Rathour (kp 21/09/2017)
Dhading
shopkeepers go on strike to protest raid (kp
19/09/2018)
Mobile
expos bloom in Kathmandu, by Abhishek Chitrakar (kp
18/09/2017)
Hetauda
Cement
open after maintenance: A team of 35 technicians from
india disassembled the cement plant and repaired ‘grate
coller and killer’—two key components of the
plant—taking 36 days, by Pratap Bishta (kp
17/09/2017)
KMC
removes street vendors (kp 14/09/2017)
First
tremors of holiday shopping spree hit stores, by
Yamini Bantawa (kp 14/09/2017)
Twisted
CSR: CSR is not so much about how you spend your money
as much as it is about how you earn it, by Narayan
Manandhar (rep 12/09/2017)
Hetauda
industrial area starts recovering unused land, by
Pratap Bista (kp 10/09/2017)
'Big
contractors forming cartel to win contracts', by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 06/09/2017)
Branded
stores sealed for overcharging customers (kp
05/09/2017), Durbarmarg
stores pull down shutters in protest (kp
08/09/2017), Mandal
vows stern action against errant merchants (kp
09/09/2017), Durbar
Marg
shops reopen citing holiday: Gopal Kakshapati, president
of the Durbar Marg Development Board, says they had
decided to reopen the stores due to the onset of the
Dashain and Tihar festival shopping season (kp
12/09/2017), Minister
vows
action against Durbarmarg stores: During inspections,
these stores were found ‘marking-up the cost price
by as much as 2,300 percent' (kp 13/09/2017),
Sealed
stores in Durbarmarg reopen (kp 26/09/2017) [??]
Agro
cooperatives swindling farmers in Kaski district (ht
02/09/2017)
IBN,
Hongshi to seal deal on Sunday (kp 02/09/2017), IBN
signs $359m pact with Chinese venture: Foreign
investment biggest ever in manufacturing (kp
04/09/2017)
Insurance
companies: Emerging issues, by Subash Koirala (ht
01/09/2017)
Auto
market zooms ahead (kp 30/08/2017)
Lalitpur
Mobile Expo to begin from Sept 1, by Abhishek
Chitrakar (kp 29/08/2017)
National
Trading likely to get new lease of life, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 28/08/2017)
Hetauda
factories lose Rs20m in rain, landslides, by Pratap
Bista (kp 20/08/2017)
Complaints
related to cooperatives on the rise (ht 18/08/2017)
Government
should not ignore cooperative sector: Lawmakers (ht
12/08/2017)
Uncertainty
looms over proposed SEZ project (ht 12/08/2017)
FNCCI
seeks enhanced regional cooperation (ht 12/08/2017)
First
PVC industrial plant in Dolakha (ht 09/08/2017)
‘Nepali
industries should enhance competitiveness’: India’s new
tax regime expected to lower cost of Indian goods
(ht 09/08/2017)
Three
more firms get life insurance licence (ht
03/08/2017)
Market
monitoring team springs into action in Pokhara, by
Santosh Subedi (rep 02/08/2017)
Illegal
tenants to be evicted from industrial estate site,
by Pratap Bista (kp 01/08/2017)
Private
sector tried to prolong life of controversial tax
settlement body, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 01/08/2017)
Registration
of 15 cooperatives scrapped, by Mukti Prasad
Nyaupane (rep 01/08/2017)
Sajha
Publications failing to pay staff despite govt
assistance of Rs 300m (ht 31/07/2017)
Govt
to reopen licences for petro extraction and exploration
(ht 31/07/2017)
Industries
to start construction in Bhairahawa SEZ (ht
28/07/2017)
Insurance
market grows by 22pc to Rs 57.53 billion, by Sabin
Mishra (ht 28/07/2017)
Expansion
of Butwal industrial area proposed, by Sher Bahadur
KC (rep 26/07/2017)
FNCCI
to hold Nepal-India investment summit in October
(rep 24/07/2017)
Surkhet
set to get new industrial estate (kp 23/07/2017)
Facilitating
public private partnerships: Govt, FNCCI seal deal
(kp 22/07/2017)
Nepalis’
online
shopping dream turning real soon: This service is
expected to revolutionise the e-commerce business in
Nepal, as it will allow millions of electronic
cardholders to purchase goods from Nepal-based online
stores and even open online stores, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 18/07/2017)
Rs
30
billion domestic shoe industry under siege (kp
17/07/2017)
IB
sets
insurance agents’ incentive cap, by Sabin Mishra (ht
15/07/2017)
Women
Entrepreneurship
Dev Fund gets Rs165.8m from MoI: The fund has been
providing collateral-free loans to women
entrepreneurs to encourage them to start their own
businesses (kp 15/07/2017)
Rural
women
turning into entrepreneurs (ht 14/07/2017)
IMF
delegation
meets FNCCI office bearers (ht 14/07/2017)
Investment
Board,
Hongshi Shivam set to sign PIA, by Bibek Subedi (kp
11/07/2017)
Money
to burn: The aim of lighting up South Asia with Nepal’s
hydropower can wait, by Devendra Gautam (rep
08/07/2017)
IB
reduces
cost of riot, protest insurance products (kp
07/07/2017), IB
grants
operating licence to three new life insurance firms
(ht 07/07/2017)
Cooperatives
and
agriculture: Cooperatives could be part of the solution
to the problem of Nepal’s very small farms, by
Sophie Kemkhadze (kp 04/07/2017)
Co-ops
prepare to open cold storage facility in Gaidakot,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 04/07/2017)
Earthmover
sales
soar on construction boom (kp 28/06/2017)
Small
businesses
create big impact on economy, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 28/06/2017)
Petro
dealers
threaten to halt distribution (ht 25/06/2017), Technical
panel
to study shrinkage loss problem (kp 26/06/2017)
Bhairahawa
turning
into industrial powerhouse, by Madhav Dhungana (kp
22/06/2017)
Nepal
Reinsurance
Company expands: The government established NRC in
November 2014 in a bid to stem massive capital outflows
for reinsurance purposes (kp 20/06/2017)
Govt
on
course to shut National Trading Ltd, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 20/06/2017), For
drastic
overhaul: Even in vital PEs, drastic reforms, including
in ownership structure, should be seriously considered
(ht 21/06/2017)
Private
players
seek productive sector-friendly monetary policy (ht
20/06/2017)
What
do
investors in Nepal look for? A startup should treat
investors as a sceptic who is looking for hard evidence
that the money they are going to spend on your business
is worthwhile, by Pranjal Ghimire (kp 19/06/2017)
Bandas
take their toll on industries in Birgunj-Pathlaiya,
by Upendra Yadav (rep 19/06/2017)
A
long way to go: Private equity faces challenges in Nepal
that are non-existent in India and China, by
Shashwat Satyal (kp 18/06/2017)
Ineffective
monitoring
and defiant traders: Blatant disregard for authority
among traders in the market because of the safety net
political parties provide them with, by Pawan
Timilsina (ht 18/06/2017), ‘Govt
bodies
not serious about curbing market anomalies’ (kp
19/06/2017)
DoSM
to
continue market checks till Dashain (kp 18/06/2017)
Jumla
shopkeepers found selling inedible food products, by
DB Buda (rep 17/06/2017)
Foreign
direct
investment: Manifold challenges, by Bhubanesh Pant
(ht 16/06/2017)
Annapurna
Cements:
starts test production, by Lila Ballav Ghimire (kp
16/06/2017)
‘Revise
draft
bill to amend Bonus Act’: NOC has set aside Rs2.36
billion to award its employees a bonus (kp
15/06/2017), ‘Invest
bonus
amount to enhance petro infrastructure’ (ht
15/06/2017)
Cement
import
from India doubles: Demand up but domestic plants
running below capacity (ht 15/06/2017)
Panel
report
on sugar mills overcharging to be reviewed: Salt Trading
Corporation retails sugar at Rs82 per kg while consumers
pay up to Rs100 per kg (kp 14/06/2017)
12
firms
booked for business malpractice (kp 14/06/2017)
Business
Oxygen
gets $7.3m from IFC: BO2, makes equity investments in
Nepal’s high-growth small and medium enterprises (SMEs),
helping them achieve their potential and create more
jobs (kp 13/06/2017)
Electricity
woes
in Bhairahawa SEZ: Full-fledged operations unlikely for
at least another one-and-a-half yeras (ht
13/06/2017), Investors’
concerns:
In order to attract more investment in the productive
sectors, both domestic and foreign, the government must
plug such loopholes (ht 14/06/2017)
Offers
galore
in auto sector, but few buyers, by Aagat Ruchi
Sapkota (kp 11/06/2017)
Market
monitoring
underway in Valley (kp 08/06/2017), 44
firms
grilled by DoSM; 26 penalised (kp 11/06/2017)
Major
shopping
malls see sales fall in Valley, by Poonam Regmi (kp
07/06/2017)
Intensive
market
monitoring begins today: Week-long inspection aimed at
controlling growing anomalies seen in essential products
(ht 06/06/2017)
State-owned
cement
industries set new records (ht 03/06/2017)
Initial
costs:
can be included in capital: NRB, by Bibek Subedi (kp
02/06/2017)
Thanka
art
proves a boon for illiterate woman, by Rajkumar
Parajuli (ht 01/06/2017)
PEs
to
incur 41 per cent loss in this fiscal (ht
31/05/2017)
Shake
it
up: Focus of IBN must evolve. Instead of looking outside
for investors, it must also look inwards and start
working with private companies, by Bishal Thapa (rep
30/05/2017)
21,541
street
vendors booked so far this fiscal (kp 29/05/2017)
Nawalparasi
becoming
cement hub of Nepal, by Narayan Sharma (kp
26/05/2017)
Bajura
pharmacies
sealed (ht 26/05/2017)
NOC
barred
from distributing bonus (kp 25/05/2017)
Plants
still
run at half their capacity (kp 25/05/2017)
NOC
making huge profit by overcharging consumers, by
Rudra Pandeni and Ashim Neupane (rep 23/05/2017)
Cement
industry
on the path to self-reliance: Cement import has come
down by 36 per cent in the first nine months of this
fiscal year (ht 23/05/2017)
‘PIA
template
draft to be finalised soon’ (kp 21/05/2017)
NOC
to
pay dividends worth Rs145m (kp 20/05/2017)
Yoshodha
Foods
opens: instant noodle factory, by Amrita Anmol (kp
20/05/2017)
Nepal,
China
to construct cross-border SEZ: A joint committee to be
formed soon to finalise operation, business modality
(ht 20/05/2017)
10
new
life insurance companies approved (kp 19/05/2017)
Action
taken
against six offending firms (kp 17/05/2017)
TIO
to
ramp up production of lens to boost export (ht
16/05/2017)
Dealers
flay
NOC plan to operate fuel stations jointly with IOC
(ht 15/05/2017)
Bara-Parsa
Industrial
corridor lacks power, by Shankar Acharya (kp
14/05/2017)
Poll
paraphernalia
ramp up small traders’ business (kp 12/05/2017)
Draft
foreign
investment bill: Govt removes provision on facilitating int’l
investors (kp 11/05/2017)
SEBI
starts
production of eco-friendly bricks (kp 10/05/2017)
Iconic
Jeevan
Jal is back in production (kp 08/05/2017), New
lease
of life (ht 09/05/2017)
Cement
manufacturers
seek govt preferential treatment (kp 06/05/2017)
Quota
system
launched in Yarsagumba collection, by Aash Gurung (kp
05/05/2017)
FNCCI
likely
to hold another election for VP: Post vacant als current VP
Shrestha files candidacy for mayor of Beni (ht 03/05/2017)
NDL
to
begin production of medicines from next week (ht
02/05/2017)
Agribusiness
Innovation
centre opened in Capital (kp 29/04/2017)
Govt
to
allow telecom firms to merge (ht 29/04/2017)
Cement
factory
likely to be delayed due to govt apathy, by Narayan Sharma
(kp 27/04/2017)
Investment
in
fixed capital assets up 41.6pc, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp
27/04/2017)
Summit
to
urge youths to start own business (kp 24/04/2017)
Joshi
holds
talks with diplomats on investment (kp 21/04/2017), Diplomats
vow
to support govt to bring FDI (ht 21/04/2017)
Submit
record:
NRB to foreign investers (kp 19/04/2017)
63
firms
apply to prepare DPR of industrial estates (ht 19/04/2017)
Promoting
women
entrepreneurs: Govt mulls interest subsidy on loans (kp
18/04/2017)
Pvt
sector
questions effective mobilisation of CSR funds (ht
18/04/2017)
Making
Nepal
special: Special Economic Zones, if properly implemented,
could provide a rapid industrial upgrade, by Kshitiz Dahal
(kp 17/04/2017)
Govt
urged
to attract investment from the US (ht 14/04/2017)
13th
IITFT
Expo 2017 from next week (ht 13/04/2017)
Property
Expo draws above 100,000 visitors (rep 12/04/2017)
Rana
to
assume leadership of FNCCI (ht 11/04/2017)
NOC
on
track to make Rs120m profit in April (kp 10/04/2017)
Cement
factories
owned by state to chip in to charity: Govt tells them to
contribute Rs1.5 to Rs2 generated from sales of every
sack of cement (kp 08/04/2017)
FNCCI
candidates
play blame games (kp 06/04/2017), FNCCI
election
race heats up, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
06/04/2017), Murarka’s
attempt
to forge consensus fails (ht 06/04/2017), Golchha,
Pradhan
step up campaign for key post (kp 11/04/2017), Golchha’s
panel
wins landslide victory, by Bibek Subedi and Keshav
Thapa (kp 12/04/2017), Shekhar
Golchha
elected senior vice-president (rep 12/04/2017)
Japanese
team
explores investment potential in country (ht
06/04/2017)
NTL
to
sell land at Teku to pay off employees (kp
05/04/2017)
Property
Expo
2017 to kick off on April 7 (kp 05/04/2017)
Telecom
equipment
import surges by 48pc (ht 05/04/2017)
Scores
of
industries confined to paper (ht 04/04/2017)
Golcha
files
for senior FNCCI VP post on Sunday (kp 03/04/2017),
High-stakes
in
FNCCI senior veep election (kp 04/04/2017), 111
candidates
to vie for 64 FNCCI posts (ht 04/04/2017)
Domestic
investment
necessary to attract FDI (ht 03/04/2017)
Gas
plant
sealed for using old cylinders (kp 01/04/2017)
Investment Potentials And Need Of FDIs, by Ratna
Prajapati (rn 01/04/2017)
Gas
stations
sealed for giving short measure (kp 31/03/2017)
SAARC
Handicraft
Design Centre to be established: Despite booming
exports, the handicraft sector lacks professional
training and a designing centre (kp 28/03/2017)
Chaudhary
Group
to invest Rs50b in three years to create 25k jobs
(kp 28/03/2017)
Why
do
startups in Nepal fail? Entrepreneurs continue to dream
big but failure should be one of the main concerns,
by Pranjal Ghimire (kp 27/03/2017)
Belt
and
Road platform to promote Nepal pashmina (kp
27/03/2017)
Locals
return
to work in lokta paper factory, by Dipak Pariyar (kp
27/03/2017)
DPR
of
industrial area in Hetauda initiated, by Pratap
Bista (kp 26/03/2017)
Domestic
mobile
phone market expands rapidly: Govt statistics reveal
country imported more than nine million handsets in less
than one year, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 25/03/2017)
House
panel
directs MoI to bring guidelines: Laws related to SEZ
Act, Industrial Enterprise Act gather dust (ht
25/03/2017)
STC
okayed
to sell piled up stock of zinc sheets (kp
22/03/2017)
Industries
yet
to be set up at Bhairahawa SEZ (ht 22/03/2017)
House
panel
directs MoF to clear dues of PEs within a month (ht
21/03/2017)
Election
season
kicks in at FNCCI: Two vie for senior vice president’s
post, announce their panels (kp 20/03/2017)
Hetauda
Cement
aims to generate Rs200m in profit, by Pratap Bista
(kp 20/03/2017)
Forced
to
pack up, street vendors struggle to make ends meet
(ht 19/03/2017)
FDI
commitment
rises 24.3 per cent (ht 17/03/2017)
Know
your
rights: Consumers can claim compensation for damages
caused by bad products or services, by Kahar Singh
Khadka (kp 15/03/2017)
The
halo
effect: Instead of discrediting rivals, our politicians
should be on the same page about attracting foreign
investment, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 14/03/2017)
Businesses
reluctant to seek facility from Economic Revival Fund
(rep 14/03/2017)
Message
of
hope: Letters of Intent signed at the event totaled US
$13.52 billion, a sign of increasing donor confidence in
Nepal’s investment climate, by Prabhakar Ghimire
(rep 11/03/2017)
'Outdated'
laws
hit market monitoring (ht 11/03/2017)
Real
estate
business cools down in Birendranagar, by Prakash
Adhikari (kp 11/03/2017)
SAWDF,
ICIMOD
sign letter of intent (kp 09/03/2017)
Youth
and Small Entrepreneurs Self Employment Fund: Women
outpace men in self-employment in 18 districts, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 09/03/2017)
Investment
Summit
2017: Nepal gets investment pledges worth $13.5b; China
leads the pack of six investors, committing $8.3 billion,
by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 04/03/3017), Investment
summit
draws $13.51bn FDI commitment: The pledged investment is
more than half of country’s GDP structure; Amount
exceeds budget ceiling for fiscal year 2017-18, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 04/03/2017), Invest
and
lose: The Bideshis only want one thing: Can this country
offer them any opportunity to make a quick buck? Yes,
foreigners will pledge billions of Rupees in
investment but we all know that not even a percent of
those pledged will amount to real investment
in the future, by Guffadi (kp 04/03/2017), Stakeholders
seek
foreign investment in agro-forestry (ht 04/03/2017),
Investors
intend to pour $ 13.52 b into Nepal, by Kuvera
Chalise and Ashim Neupane (rep 04/03/2017), Improve
investment
climate: Commitment expressed at Investment Summit was
laudable; now leaders must act (kp 07/03/2017), MoI
sets
upcommittee to facilitate foreign investors (ht
07/03/2017)
Private
investments
and our duties: Nepal needs to create an
investment-friendly environment in order to prosper,
by Ghanashyam Ojha (kp 02/03/2017), Making
Nepal
FDI friendly: We know what needs to be done to attract
investment, we just need to do it, by Shyamal K.
Shrestha (nt 03/03/2017)
IIPB
mulls
relief for scrapped industries: Around 600 industries
registered with dOi have lost their legal status with
the new act coming into effect (kp 02/03/2017)
Cars
gather
dust at customs as sales fall: Recent drop in vehicle
imports hits revenue of Birgunj Customs Office, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 28/02/2017)
Rural
entrepreneurs bemoan lack of market (rep 28/02/2017)
Investment
summit
2017: Govt expects Rs100b in FDI pledges (kp
27/02/2017), Nepal
Investment Summit from Thursday: AIIB President, Indian
Finance Minister keynote speakers (rep 27/02/2017),
Investment
Summit
from today: To be attended by around 300 foreign
delegates, including India’s finance minister and AIIB
president, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 02/03/2017), Govt
okays Rs 30b foreign investment for six joint ventures,
by Sagar Ghimire (rep 02/03/2017), Govt
gives
nod to Rs 29.83bn FDI on the eve of investment summit,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 02/03/2017), Investment
climate in Nepal improving: Government organizing
Investment Summit after a gap of 25 years, by Kuvera
Chalise (rep 02/03/2017), Making
case
for investing in Nepal: Prime Minister Dahal, ministers
and top NC, UML leaders commit to promoting a good
business environment, by Bibek Subedi (kp
03/03/2017), AIIB
committed
to investing in Nepal’s infra: Chief (kp
03/03/2017), ‘Nepal
will
receive loan assistance from Asian Infra Bank by 2018’,
interview with Jin Liqun, AiiB president (kp 03/03/2017),
Nepal
is
a fertile land for foreign investment, says private
sector (ht 03/03/2017)
GMP
to
be enforced in milk, water industries, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 27/02/2017)
Govt
initiates
process of building industrial area, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 26/02/2017)
NOC
to
amend automatic fuel pricing bylaw (kp 25/02/2017)
Data
drives
Ncell revenue growth, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
25/02/2017)
Of
local,
for local, buy local: New online business reduces carbon
footprint of urban consumers by extending the digital
footprint of farmers, by Smriti Basnet (nt
24/02/2017)
Institutions
adrift:
Cooperatives play a key role in economic development,
but they need an overhaul, by Bishwa Mohan Acharya
(kp 23/02/2017)
Business
boom:
Development speeds up after Karnali Highway, by Tula
Ram Pandey (kp 23/02/2017)
CNI
urges govt to implement outcomes of infrastructure
summit (rep 23/02/2017)
Gov’s
stringent
policy to regulate alcohol products, by Manish
Gautam (kp 22/02/2017)
Cottage
industry
goods exhibition from Thursday, by Sakchham
Karki (kp 22/02/2017)
Industry
Minister
Joshi inaugurates Bhairahawa SEZ for second time, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 19/02/2017)
Tanker
operators
oppose minimum fleet size rule (kp 18/02/2017), Tanker
operators-NOC
meeting end fruitless (kp 22/02/2017)
Domestic
firms
to invest over Rs 5bn in Bhairahawa special economic
zone (ht 17/02/2017)
MoLE
to
award returnee migrant workers who embrace
entrepreneurship (ht 17/02/2017)
Foreign
investors will get a level playing field: Industry
minister (rep 16/02/2017), Nepal
investment
summit: IBN to show 8 projects as potential ventures;
The board has selected four railway projects, a
hydropower project, a tunnel highway, an international
airport and a chemical fertilizer plant (kp
17/02/2017), More
than
100 foreign delegates to take part in investment summit
(kp 19/02/2017)
Sagoon
announces
$20m online public offering (kp 10/02/2017)
Enabling
business:
The recent spike in FDI pledges is healthy but not yet
enduring (kp 09/02/2017)
FDI
pledges
jump 28pc with China topping list, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 08/02/2017)
NOC
to
issue permits to new gas companies (kp 07/02/2017)
Industrial
hub
of Morang faces shortage of skilled workers, by Dev
Narayan Sah (kp 05/02/2017)
Germany’s
FICO
enters Nepal (kp 03/02/2017), ‘Nepal
is
a very important market for us’, interview with
Torsten Mayer, vice president of FiCO (kp 05/04/2017)
NTA
permission
mandatory for telcos to change share structure (ht
01/02/2017)
Investments
in
transportation sector in Palpa cross Rs 1b, by
Madhav Aryal (kp 31/01/2017)
Bottlers
refuse
to import LPG (kp 30/01/2017)
National
industrial
fair slated to start Feb 23: Textiles and accessories
made of natural fibres, semi-precious stones mined in
Surkhet and Jajarkot, nettle powder, herbals, bamboo
products and Mithila art will be the major attractions
(kp 30/01/2017)
MoI
seeks
endorsement of industrial-related acts before NIS
(ht 27/01/2017)
Majority
of
gas bottlers still to pay affiliation fee to govt
(ht 25/01/2017)
Bhadrakali
Oil
sealed for selling adulterated fuel (kp 24/01/2017)
Business
with a cause: Maybe time has come for Nepali
entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses with a
social cause, by Bhagirath Yogi (rep 24/01/2017)
Lalitpur
Mobile
Expo slated to open Friday (kp 24/01/2017)
Foreign
direct
investment: Investment-friendly climate, by
Bhubanesh Pant (ht 23/01/2017)
Bhairahawa
SEZ:
Lack of power puts investors in dilemma, by Madhav
Dhungana (kp 21/01/2017)
Licence
must
for tobacco business from mid-March: Tobacco outlets
have to be at least 100 m away from educational
institutions, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 21/01/2017)
Traders
now
offer .999 fine gold (kp 21/01/2017)
Debt-ridden
Sajha
tables revival plan, by Samipa Khanal (kp
19/01/2017)
Rakura
launches
8 new varieties of organic tea (kp 19/01/2017)
‘Fear
of
failure has inhibited entrepreneurship development’,
interview with Mangesh Lal Shrestha, President of
Nepalese Young Entrepreneurs' Forum (ht 16/01/2017)
NOC
set
to incur loss for first time in two years (kp
13/01/2017)
Gas
stations
ordered to upgrade (kp 10/01/2017)
Grading
process
of domestic cement delayed (ht 09/01/2017)
Complex
paperwork
makes incentives unobtainable (kp 05/01/2017)
SEZ
for
export: The SEZ law has already been enacted and foreign
firms have also shown interest in investing in SEZ after
the passage of this law (ht 05/01/2017)
Government
seeks
support from India, China to set up SEZ (ht
05/01/2017)
Mobile
expo
ends with Rs200m transaction (kp 04/01/2017)
Government
finalises
Special Economic Zone SEZ locations (ht 04/01/2017)
Dishonest
traders
may be fined up to Rs100k on the spot (kp
02/01/2017)
Stakeholders
urge
swift passage of Cooperative Bill: they have urged
lawmakers not to remove stern provisions in the
bill against those involved in misappropriation of funds
(kp 02/01/2017)
LPG
bottlers
lack incentive to step on the gas to get NBSM
accreditation: Of 53 companies operating across the
country, only one has acquired Nepal Standard
certification in over a month, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
31/12/2016)
KMC
raises
over Rs1m fine from street vendors: Vendors are barred
from selling goods from non-designated places,
by Anup Ojha (kp 27/12/2016)
Pvt
sector
against minimum capital requirement: Says such
provisions discourage drawing investment in small and
medium enterprises (ht 27/12/2016)
NFC
padlocks
Manoj Driving (kp 27/12/2016)
Sellers
unveil
discount offers for Christmas (kp 23/12/2016)
Nepal
to
host adventure, mountaineering expo (kp 22/12/2016),
GAMCE
2017
from Mar 31 to Apr 2 (ht 22/12/2016)
Infra
summit
from Feb 19 (kp 22/12/2016), Second
Nepal
Infrastructure Summit in February (ht 22/12/2016)
13th
National
Industrial Expo begins tomorrow (kp 19/12/2016), National
Industrial
Expo opens at Bhrikutimandap: locally-made party shoes,
sports shoes, sandals and casual footwear besides
textiles made of natural fibres are the major
attractions at the fair (kp 21/12/2016)
One
for
the book(store)s, by Ajit Baral (kp 17/12/2016)
Businesses
hit
hard by districtwide shutdown, by Ghanshyam Gautam
(kp 16/12/2016)
NCC,
Chinese
team sign MoU to boost trade (kp 16/12/2016)
IBM
proposes
waiving pre-negotiation charge (kp 15/12/2016)
‘Export
incentive
must to make Nepali garments competitive’ (ht
15/12/2016)
10-day
Sindhuli
Fair to kick off on Dec 22 (kp 14/12/2016)
NFC
acts
to evict tenants overstaying their lease (kp
13/12/2016)
Govt
unveils
plan to revive defunct private ventures: Units of the
real sector that have terminated operations will
be asked to submit proposals for their revitalization
(kp 13/12/2016), MoI
sets
its sight on reviving sick pvt industries (ht
13/12/2016), Private
sector
welcomes government’s move to revive defunct firms
(kp 15/12/2016)
Manufacturing
units
utilised only 48pc of capacity last fiscal (ht
13/12/2016)
Nepal
Investment
Summit slated to be held in March (kp 10/12/2016), Govt
targets
$1bn FDI commitment: Over 300 foreign investors expected
to participate in the investment summit (ht
10/12/2016)
A
month without power outage: Changes felt in daily life;
Businesses and factories report fall in operating costs,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 10/12/2016)
National
Industrial
Trade Fair kicks off in Pokhara, by Bhim Ghimire (kp
09/12/2016)
Soaltee,
NAC
join hands (kp 07/12/2016)
Crucial
investment-related
decisions put on hold: Fate of mega projects in limbo as
IBN noard meeting has not been held for many months,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 07/12/2016)
Lack
of
rural financial services affects micro entrepreneurship
(ht 06/12/2016)
Green
business: Social Enterprises refer to organizations that
enhance human and environmental wellbeing through
commercial strategies, by Sunil Sainju (rep
06/12/2016)
Mobile
phone
importers form umbrella body (ht 05/12/2016)
NT
revives
stalled move to find strategic partner (kp
03/12/2016)
FDI
commitment
for 139 projects in the first quadrimester (ht
03/12/2016)
Bhawani
Rana elected FWEAN president; Shova Gyawali is the new
general secretary (rep 03/12/2016)
MoFA
mulls
setting up biz window (kp 02/12/2016)
Yamire
locals
demand fair land compensation: Hongshi-Shivam Cement, a
nepal-China joint venture, is building a cement factory
at Sardi in Nawalparasi district, by Madhav Aryal
(kp 02/12/2016)
Plummeting
gold
price provides respite to domestic jewellers (ht
02/12/2016)
Prime
minister has no time for IBN meetings: IBN has not been
able to hold even a single board meeting in the past
four months, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 01/12/2016)
DRI starts
probe against four Biratnagar factories, by Amar
Khadka (rep 01/12/2016)
Plans
to
revive hetauda textile mill: Half of factory equipment
in working condition: Team; the government is
considering letting security forces operate the factory,
which was shut down one and half decades ago, by
Pratap Bista (kp 30/11/2016)
Industries
face
problems getting loans (ht 28/11/2016)
NE
Group
doubles size of fund (kp 26/11/2016)
Investment
friendly
regime: While it is laudable that there was vibrant
discussion on FITTA, it still has many inadequacies,
by Abaya Neopane (kp 25/11/2016)
Survey
proposes
around 20 staff for PPP Centre: the centre’s head will
be selected from among joint secretaries of the
government (kp 24/11/2016)
Bhairahawa
SEZ still doesn't have electricity supply, by Sher
Bahadur KC (rep 24/11/2016)
Wanted
good
managers: Trying to revive rotting public enterprises
would be throwing good money after bad; The government
has failed to attract fresh MBAs and other graduates
from reputed international business schools into its
regular bureaucracy, by Achyut Wagle (kp 22/11/2016)
There’s
plenty
of work, if you know where to look, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 21/11/2016)
NEEK
Electro-Tech
2016 opens at Bhrikutimandap (kp 16/11/2016)
NOC
plans
to re-enter bitumen business (kp 18/11/2016)
The
business
of entrepreneurship: With the amount spent even before
they get the visa, students planning to study in the US
can easily start a viable business at home, by
Triveni Chand And Pankaj Parajuli (nt 18/11/2016)
Chaudhary
Foundation,
LCIF announce $500k investment (kp 17/11/2016)
Automobile
business
sees substantial growth (ht 14/11/2016)
Investors’
Summit
to be held in March (ht 12/11/2016)
8th
NEEK
Electro-Tech slated to open Nov 18 (kp 11/11/2016)
NMEFN,
DLB
Bank ink agreement to enhance micro entrepreneurship at
local level (ht 10/11/2016)
Silk
art
gains popularity as home decorations (kp 07/11/2016)
14
firms selected to setting up units in Bhairahawa SEZ,
by Sher Bahadur KC (rep 07/11/2016)
Co-ops
to
be required to submit accounts online: The Ministry of
Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has been preparing
to make it mandatory for cooperatives to upload their
accounts so it can keep a close tab on them (kp
05/11/2016)
Hetauda
to
get new industrial estate, by Pratap Bista (kp
03/11/2016)
Sales
of
Dhaka items soar in Palpa district, by Madhav Aryal
(kp 31/10/2016)
Tihar
bazaar:
Traders report brisk business (kp 31/10/2016)
Sajha
Prakashan
gearing up for a rebound (ht 28/10/2016)
Govt
mulls
letting security forces revive Hetauda textile mill
(kp 28/10/2016), Hetauda
Textile
Industry to be revived (ht 28/10/2016)
With
Tihar
starting tomorrow, sales of dried fruits soar (ht
27/10/2016)
‘Every
plot
in Bhairahawa SEZ booked already’ (ht 26/10/2016), A
test case: If we can make this SEZ successful, the other
economic zones will also get a big boost by
strengthening the national economy significantly (ht
27/10/2016)
Nepal
slips
eight positions in WB’s Doing Business index (kp
26/10/2016) [see
related World
Bank
report on South Asia]
Action
taken
against 3 firms for overcharging (kp 25/10/2016)
FNCCI
amends
its statue; Rana to become next prez (kp
21/10/2016), Members
unanimously
approve amendment to FNCCI statute (ht 21/10/2016)
Better
investment
climate stressed (ht 21/10/2016)
Groundwork
starts
for merger of NTL, NOC (kp 20/10/2016)
FNCCI
special
general meeting today (ht 20/10/2016)
Illegal
mustard
oil imports put local producers on brink (kp
18/10/2016)
Jewellery
sales
during Dashain down 50pc (kp 17/10/2016)
Lack
of
required infrastructure dash EV traders’ hopes (ht
16/10/2016)
Jewellery
lament
tepid business this Dashain (ht 15/10/2016)
Meat
sales
total Rs1.32b in Valley during Dashain (kp
14/10/2016)
Brick
kilns
told to furnish registration, tax clearance documents
(ht 08/10/2016)
Mutton
takes
a bite out of chicken sales (ht 08/10/2016)
Not
working:
Many financial cooperatives in Nepal are not open for
business for vulnerable and disadvantaged youths, by
Simone Galimberti (kp 07/10/2016)
Foreign
investment
to be allowed in secondary market, by Sujan Dhungana
(ht 06/10/2016), FDI
facility:
At a time when the country is heavily dependent on
remittance it would be fitting if it succeeded in
acquiring more FDI (ht 07/10/2016)
Lower
prices
lure Dashain shoppers to Indian towns, by Madhav
Dhungana and Shankar Acharya (kp 05/10/2016)
Gas
plant
encroaches upon road dept land, by Harihar Singh
Rathour (kp 04/10/2016)
Five-star
casino
resort to open in Bhairahawa, by Sangam Prasain (kp
04/10/2016)
Traders
rushing
to ship mountain goats, sheep, by Birendra KC (kp
03/10/2016)
MoI
plans
to revive Hetauda Textile (ht 03/10/2016)
Micro,
small
and medium enterprises boom (ht 02/10/2016), Make
the
most of it: We have now realised the potential of
cottage, small and medium enterprises. They should be
encouraged to team up with big-scale enterprises (ht
03/10/2016)
Implementation
of
‘no work, no pay’ provision difficult (kp
01/10/2016)
Chinese
investors
show interest in Nepal Special Economic Zone (ht
01/10/2016)
Two-day
trilateral
investors’ meet kicks off in Capital (ht
30/09/2016), Investors
seek assurance on policy, political stability (ht
30/09/2016)
Festive
shoppers
throng Valley malls (kp 29/09/2016)
Corporate
social
responsibility: Issues for businesses, by Sunil
Sainju (ht 26/09/2016)
Monitoring
intensified
amid shopping spree (kp 26/09/2016)
Unilever
Nepal
lifts lockout at its factory (kp 23/09/2016)
‘Look
into
constraints for foreign investment’ (ht 21/09/2016)
Mobile
Expo
draws huge crowds (kp 16/09/2016)
Nepal,
India
and China trilateral investors’ meet to be held soon
(ht 16/09/2016)
Government
to
resume operation of defunct PEs (kp 12/09/2016), Government
plans
to revive sick enterprises (ht 12/09/2016), Sick
enterprises (ht 13/09/2016), Cabinet
endorses
MOI’s proposal to revive Nepal Drugs Limited
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 19/09/2016), Work
begins
to revive Nepal Drug Limited (kp 20/09/2016), Let
it die: It is not right to say that reviving NDL will
save billions and ensure quality drugs in the market,
by Akash Shrestha (rep 26/09/2016)
DoSM
preparing
to file cases against 7 firms: The department will file
the cases under the Consumer Protection Act 1998 (kp
09/09/2016)
Motipur
locals
say no to planned industrial zone, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 03/09/2016)
Ex-cantonment
sought
for estate, by Bimal Khatiwada (03/09/2016)
FDI
commitment
plunged 77.5pc in last fiscal (ht 03/09/2016)
7
companies sign MoUs to erect factories in SEZ, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 02/09/2016)
57
new
industries registered in first month of fiscal year
(kp 28/08/2016)
Arghakhanchi
launches
Rs4b expansion project (kp 26/08/2016)
Preparatory
work
to set up industrial estate starts, by Amrita Anamol
(kp 25/08/2016)
18
Valley
firms booked for irregularities: Govt (kp
23/08/2016)
Healthcare
firms,
food sellers face action (kp 22/08/2016)
Syndicates
rule roost in Pokhara, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
22/08/2016)
Firm
registrations
surge, thanks to online system (kp 20/08/2016)
Building
and
Construction Expo kicks off in Capital (kp
20/08/2016)
Ministry
intensifies
market monitoring, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 17/08/2015)
Bhairahawa
SEZ
to sign MoU with 11 selected companies (ht
15/08/2016)
Entrepreneurs
urge
govt to prioritise industrial security (kp
13/08/2016)
Everest
Big
Cardamom brand to be registered (kp 12/08/2016)
Bhairahawa
luring
business away from Birgunj: Trade through Birgunj
plunged by half duringthe last fiscal year ending
mid-July, by Shankar Acharya (kp 11/08/2016)
Foreign
direct
investment: Barriers and benefits, by Needika
Adhikari (ht 09/08/2016)
Hulas’
new
electric car model put to road test (kp 08/08/2016)
Commerce
2.0: The government has not been able to create a
favorable environment to boost e-commerce in Nepal,
by Subarna Shakya and Bimal Pratap Shah (rep 06/08/2016)
Paper
Trail:
Tracing three generations pressed into one profession,
by Smriti Basnet (nt 05/08/2016)
DoI:
Nawalparasi
attracted highest investment pledges last fiscal year:
Kathmandu registered the most number of industries with
148, followed by Lalitpur, Kaski (kp 04/08/2016)
Online
sales
of used cars on the rise, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
02/08/2016)
Limestone
mine
lies idle due to politicisation, by Birendra KC (kp
01/08/2016)
Use
of
statistical tools: How our industry can benefit, by
Rishi Raj Gautam (ht 01/08/2016)
New
firms
barred from obtaining basic telephone service licence
(ht 25/07/2016)
Bodhichitta
biz
booms amid rising demand, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
24/07/2016)
Panchkhal
SEZ
project formally recommences: The construction of
infrastructure at the planned economic zone will be
started by this fiscal year, by Nagendra Adhikari
(kp 23/07/2016)
MoI
expedites
land acquisition for industrial estates (ht
20/07/2016)
Solution
To Problems Of Micro, Cottage And Small Industries,
by Navaraj Khatri (rn 19/07/2016)
Merger
trend
spreads to cooperatives in Kaski, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 18/07/2016)
IB
hikes
accident cover for passengers to Rs 500,000, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/07/2016), Pay
Rs
1,500, get insurance coverage of over Rs 6.6 m (ht
09/07/2016)
Bhairahawa
revs
up as investors’ hub (kp 09/07/2016)
Amended
PPA
gives PEs greater freedom (kp 09/07/2016)
Hopeful
fuel
importers apply for permission (kp 08/07/2016)
Vegetable
vendors
attack inspection team, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
06/07/2016)
Strike
ban
in Sez as House panel passes new bill (kp
06/07/2016)
The
loss-makers:
A long-term strategy is required if moribund state-owned
enterprises are to be revived, by Shree Prasad
Devkota and Nitesh Kumar Shah (kp 03/07/2016)
NOC
looks
set to morph from debt-distressed to debt-free entity
(ht 01/07/2016), NOC
to
clear all debts by end of fiscal year (kp
04/07/2016), After
14
long years, NOC becomes debt-free, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 11/07/2016))
Potential
of
garment industry highlighted (ht 30/06/2016)
IB
bars
commission on foreign employment insurance policies
(ht 24/06/2016)
Quake-hit
micro
entrepreneurs see ray of hope (kp 22/06/2016)
Blockade
by
India resulted in losses totalling Rs202 billion: Impact
of the embargo was felt across the economy as
imports were stuck on the Indian side of the
border (kp 21/06/2016)
FDI
commitment plunges 83 per cent (ht 21/06/2016)
Insurance
board
directives: Stringent policies to open branch in
Kathmandu (kp 15/06/2016)
Yarsha
harvest
shrinks due to poor snowfalls, by Krishna Prasad
Gautam and Bishnu Lal Buda (kp 14/06/2016)
Insurers
settle
88% of quake-related claims, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
08/06/2016)
Chitwan
to
get industrial exhibition centre (ht 07/06/2016)
Bhairahawa
SEZ
finally receives overwhelming response (ht
07/06/2016)
Don’t
okay
Ncell’s capital plan: Panel (kp 04/06/2016)
Angry
depositors
of Oriental Cooperative picket Baluwatar, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 03/06/2016)
Plastic
bag
manufacturers urge govt to rethink ban, by Lila
Ballav Ghimire (kp 03/06/2016)
Adventure
gear
stores report mixed business, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
03/06/2016)
Four
PEs
to be merged to form new supply company (kp
01/06/2016)
Cement
industry
seeks to be self-sufficient, by Madhav Dhungana (kp
31/05/2016)
PEs
record
over Rs 33b profits: Twenty out of 37 Public Enterprises
profitable in FY 2014-15, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
27/05/2016) [?],
Profit
of
PEs expected to erode by 51.15 per cent this fiscal
(ht 27/05/2016) [?]
Private
investor
confidence down: Public investment not attracting enough
private capital spending, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
27/05/2016)
Hongshi
Shivam
begins factory construction (kp 26/05/2016)
Yarsagumba
business
slumping down, by Devendra Basnet (rep 26/05/2016)
Short-handed
factories
running below capacity, by Amrita Anmol (kp
25/05/2016)
Dog
business
booms as pet ownership expands, by Zenith KC (kp
23/05/2016)
Steel
factories
in lower gear due to power cuts, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 21/05/2016)
Gems
and
Jewellery Expo 2016 kicks off (kp 21/05/2016)
Auto
dealers
posh up pre and after sales services, by Prahlad
Rijal (kp 19/05/2016)
FDI
pledges
drop 84% in 10 months, by Sujan Dhungana (rep
19/05/2016)
Administration
rules
to stop unauthorised gold mine exploration, by
Dinesh Shrestha (ht 19/05/2016)
NOC
repays
Rs3.64b loans (kp 18/05/2016)
SEZ
in
Bhairahawa: Government keen to get facility into gear,
by Madhav Dhungana (kp 15/05/2016)
Informal
insurance
biz growing due to lack of laws (kp 14/05/2016)
Herbs
principal
source of income for Rukum locals, by Krishna Prasad
Gautam (kp 14/05/2016)
Plans
afoot
for heavy equipment leasing co (kp 13/05/2016)
Turkish
Airlines’
bank accounts frozen (ht 12/05/2016)
Himalayan
bamboo
items being replaced by plastic, by Basanta Prasad
Singh (kp 11/05/2016)
Ncell
to
spend Rs12b on infra (kp 10/05/2016), Ncell
announces
investment of $120 million (ht 10/05/2016)
Shopping
centres,
marts sprout up across Valley, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
09/05/2016)
Insurance
premium
collection crosses Rs100b for first time (kp
07/05/2016)
Few
takers
for space at GNS Industrial Estate: The industrial
estate is spread over 294 ropanis out of which 171
ropanis have been developed (kp 04/05/2016)
Vaidyakhana
to
adopt good manufacturing practices, by Prahlad Rijal
(kp 04/05/2016)
VAT-free
imports
kill domestic production, by Binod Bhandari (kp
02/05/2016)
IBN
drafts
‘marketing document’ to attract FDI, by Bibek Subedi
(kp 28/04/2016)
Bhairahawa
special
economic zone: Govt slashes rent to woo industrialists
(kp 27/04/2016)
Innovative
minds:
Govt should make local entrepreneurs aware about the
role of IP in protecting their intellectual creation,
by Pratyush Nath Upreti (kp 26/04/2016)
Sky
is
the limit for migrants setting up business here (ht
26/04/2016)
CNI:
Bring
policies to rehabilitate industries (kp 25/04/2016)
Sunsari-Morang
industrial
corridor: Industrialists facing shortage of land plots,
by Lila Ballav Ghimire (kp 25/04/2016)
Insurers
settle
92.13pc of quake-related claims (ht 24/04/2016)
A
new lease of life: Both the public and private sectors
need to make effort to put readymade garment (RMG)
policies into practice, by Jib Raj Koirala (kp
22/04/2016)
Handmade
paper
factories return after 10-year break, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 20/04/2016)
Duty-free
access
in United States: RMG industries not so excited, by
Lila Ballav Ghimire (kp 17/04/2016)
Bhat-Bhateni
announces
plan to IPO in two years, by Pralhad Rijal (kp
16/04/2016)
TeliaSonera
completes
Ncell divestment, by Bibek Subedi (kp 12/04/2016), TeliaSonera
sells
Ncell stake for Rs 109 bn, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
12/04/2016), Axiata
take
charge of Ncell from TeliaSonera: Govt unsure about
levying capital gain tax on acquisition by Malaysian
telecom giant (kp 13/04/2016), Axiata
appoints
British citizen Simon Perkins as Ncell MD (ht
13/04/2016), TeliaSonera
drops
a hint it won’t pay tax, by Bibek Subedi
(22/04/2016)
It
was
a black year, say entrepreneurs (ht 12/04/2016)
FNCCI
doubts
government’s commitment to free market (kp
11/04/2016), Private
sector
criticizes government for prioritizing ‘controlled
economy’ (rep 11/04/2016)
Challenges
abound
as FNCCI holds 50th AGM (kp 10/04/2016)
Construction
industry
expects to bounce back (kp 09/04/2016)
Bhaktapur
Industrial
and Commerce Fair kicks off (kp 09/04/2016)
Low-cost
Hulas-e
cars set for autumn launch: Environment-friendly
vehicles to cost less than Rs1.7m, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 06/04/2016)
Online
sellers
focus on service delivery apps (kp 08/04/2016)
On
the
brink: The degrading standard of cooperatives in Nepal
is largely due to lack of regulations, by Nav Raj
Simkhada (kp 05/04/2016)
Factory
infrastructure
in disarray for want of care, by Shankar Acharya (kp
02/04/2016)
Allo-based
products
selling well in Rolpa, by Kashiram Dangi (kp
22/03/2016)
The
cooperative
way: The cooperative movement in Nepal has been unable
to emulate best practices abroad and even successful
Nepali cooperatives are dispirited, by Indira Panta
(rep 22/03/2016)
Oil
licences
issued to pvt firms scrapped (kp 18/03/2016), Govt
move
puts prospective petroleum importers in a fix: Last
Thursday, the government scrapped the permits issued to
private companies to trade oil (kp 21/03/2016)
Govt
agrees
to cut rental fee in Bhairahawa SEZ (kp 17/03/2016)
Nepal
Army
permitted to run garment factory (kp 16/03/2016)
NRCL
expands
reinsurance business to SAARC nations: The company has
signed reinsurance contracts with two foreign insurance
companies, one each from Bhutan and Afghanistan, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/03/2016)
SEZ
Development
Committee proposes slashing rental charge (ht
09/03/2016)
Foreign
direct
investment in cement: Companies plan to boost capacity,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/03/2016)
Industrialists
concerned
by growing human settlements, by Shankar Acharya (kp
05/03/2016)
Sharma
named
new CNI president (kp 05/03/2016)
Paperwork
hassles
stymie tea industry, by Biplav Bhattarai (kp
05/03/2016)
Govt
to
set up GPZ within Simara SEZ (ht 01/03/2016)
Nepali
garments
get duty-free status in US: The move addresses the
demand of Nepali garment manufacturers who had been
lobbying for duty-free entry for over a decade, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 26/02/2016)
Govt
team
seals Siddhartha Gas, by Harihar Singh Rathaur and
Rajesh Khanal (kp 25/02/2016)
SEZ
plans
changes to working procedure, by Madhab Dhungana (kp
25/02/2016)
Business
ethics:
Most popular course, by Narayan Manandhar (ht
24/02/2016)
Birat
Petro
seeks permission to sell petrol for Rs 155 a litre,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 22/02/2016)
FNCCI
organising
international trade fair next month (ht 19/02/2016)
Hetauda-based
factories
reopen after six months, by Pratap Bista (kp
17/02/2016)
Getting
the
crux of Ncell buyout deal: Can Nepal afford to make a
move that could sour foreign investor sentiment?, by
Rupak D. Sharma (ht 17/02/2016)
Nepal's
only
tire factory without any production since 8 months,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 17/02/2016)
Nawalparasi
set
to become hub of cement production, by Narayan
Sharma (kp 16/02/2016)
Industries
in
Pokhara resuming operations, by Lal Prasad Sharma
(kp 15/02/2016)
Taskforce
suggests
strong legal foundation to PEB, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 13/02/2016)
796
Nepal
Telecom employees to get golden handshake (kp
12/02/2016)
Factories
struggling
to resume full-fledged ops, by Lila Ballav Ghimire
(kp 12/02/2016)
Private
sector
seeks relief from government (ht 12/02/2016)
Micro
entrepreneurs
earn decent income (kp 08/02/2016)
As
fuel
crisis grips Nepal, solar industry eyes growth (ht
01/02/2016)
Authorities
prepare
to evict Lalitpur street vendors, by Prahlad Rijal
(kp 18/01/2016)
Power
outage
severely hits industries in Birgunj-Pathlaiya corridor
(ht 18/01/2016)
United
Spirits
to exit Nepal: The Indian liquor giant will sell its
entire 82.46pc stake in United Spirits Nepal (kp
17/01/2016)
City
police
order closure of futsal arenas (ht 15/01/2016), Temporary
ban
on futsal arenas lifted: Local administration, operators
reach 18-point agreement (ht 16/01/2016), Authorities
lift
ban on futsal venues, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
16/01/2016)
Traders
unable
to import silver due to Tarai unrest (ht 14/01/2016)
Birgunj
traders
relocating business, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
13/01/2016)
Govt
to
give interest rate subsidy (ht 12/01/2016)
Chamber
Expo
opens at Bhrikutimandap (kp 08/01/2016)
Private
sector
elated over Rehab Fund (kp 07/01/2016)
Sunivera
to
sign deal to buy 20pc of Ncell stock, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 04/01/2016)
Speedy
passage
of new Cooperative Act urged: There are 33,000
cooperatives operating in Nepal. Among them, 11,000 are
savings and credit cooperatives. They hold more than
Rs150 billion in deposits of the general public (kp
02/01/2016)
Govt
set
to give leg up to footwear products (kp 31/12/2015)
Relaxations
in
tax, interest suggested, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
29/12/2015)
FNCCI
urges
govt to end Tarai turmoil (kp 28/12/2015)
Footwear
cos
hope to push sales (kp 27/12/2015)
Shoe
makers:
Cut excise duty on raw materials (kp 25/12/2015)
Cosmetic
industry
down by unrest, trade embargo, by Suman Bashyal (kp
23/12/2015)
TeliaSonera
dials
A for Axiata: Swedish company that made foray into Nepal
in ’08 agrees to sell majority stake in Ncell to
Malaysian firm, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 22/12/2015)
Nepal
ranks
118th on Forbes’ business list (kp 19/12/2015)
FNCCI
expresses
concern about burgeoning black marketing (ht
19/12/2015)
Auto
imports
plunge by more than 41 percent (kp 18/12/2015)
Made
to
measure Nepal should aim to carve a niche in the garment
sector to sustain industry (kp 15/12/2015)
Embargo
puts
spoke in industrial wheel: Industrialists say capacity
utilisation has come down nearly 20 percent, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 13/12/2015)
Prospective
oil
importers yet to bring 1st shipment, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 10/12/2015)
Biz
confidence
plunges sharply (kp 10/12/2015)
2k
factories
fall silent in industrial heartland, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 28/11/2015)
Pvt
sector
worried as Tarai crisis worsens (kp 23/11/2015), Govt
in
‘no position’ to aid private sector, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 24/11/2015)
Panchkhal
SEZ
remains on paper after 10 years: The government has
acquired 1,004 ropanis of land in Shikharpur, Khatte
Danda and Janata Community Forest, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 19/11/2015)
Industries
headed
toward bankruptcy: Muraraka, by Kuvera Chalise (rep
18/11/2015)
Quake,
blockade
cause sharp decline on the transaction of precious
metals (ht 17/11/2015)
Fuel
crisis
jeopardises crusher industries (ht 16/11/2015)
A
year on, SEZ fails to get off the ground, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 15/11/2015)
FNCCI
divided
over blockade: VP Shrestha leads protest rally in
Kathmandu against obstruction (kp 11/11/2015)
Fuel
shortage
hits pottery business in Bhaktapur, by Pratichya
Dulal (kp 10/11/2015)
4,393
street
vendors booked during last fiscal (ht 08/11/2015)
Police
start
market inspection in Bhaktapur: The Circle will be
working with the DAO in monitoring artificial price
hike, shortage of daily commodities and black
marketeering (kp 07/11/2015)
Tarai
turmoil
forces UCI to down its shutters (ht 06/11/2015)
Raw
material
shortage hits Terhathum Dhaka industry, by
Bhageshwar Limbu (rep 06/11/2015)
Vendors
‘allowed’
to operate on streets, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
05/11/2015)
Udaypur
cement
factory halts production (ht 02/11/2015)
Tarai
unrest,
blockade hit holiday shopping season (kp 30/10/2015)
Nepal
slips
to 99 in ease of doing biz (kp 29/10/2015)
Businesses
hit
hard due to fuel crisis, shortages (ht 29/10/2015),
Facing
losses,
pvt sector demands relief package (kp 31/10/2015)
Bara-Parsa
factories
suffer Rs35b losses, by Shankar Acharya (kp
26/10/2015)
Stranded
trucks
result in Rs1b detention charges, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 26/10/2015)
FNCCI
urges
PM to save economy (kp 20/10/2015)
Fund
planned
for quake-hit businesses (kp 20/10/2015)
State-owned
companies
to provide goods at discount, by Suman Bashyal (kp
16/10/2015)
Apparel
stores
moan over slow business, by Suman Bashyal (kp
15/10/2015), Fuel
shortage
keeps shoppers away, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
16/10/2015)
Dealers
roll
out offers to spur slow Dashain sales (kp
14/10/2015)
Auto
sector
knocked out by gasoline shock, by Suman Bashyal (kp
13/10/2015)
PM
election
boosts private sector hopes: The private sector has been
suffering massive losses due to the unrest in Tarai and
the unannounced blockade by India (kp 12/10/2015)
Over
200,000
visit first Kirtipur Fair (kp 11/10/2015)
Foreign
firms
take away Rs7.21 billion dividend (kp 10/10/2015)
Detention
charge
costing importers over Rs 12 crore daily, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 09/10/2015)
Footwear
plants
hit by lack of fuel, materials, by Suman Bashyal (kp
08/10/2015)
Foreign
direct
investment: An instrumental tool, by Bhubanesh Pant
(ht 08/10/2015)
Fuel
crisis
throws fair price shops into limbo (kp 06/10/2015)
FNCCI
urges
relief package to help economic recovery (kp
05/10/2015)
Industrialists
pay
upto Rs 350m to Indian side as blockade continues
(kp 04/10/2015)
Tarai
bandh
deals major blow to industries: Fuel shortage forces
many factories in Chitwan to halt operations, by
Tilak Ram Rimal (ht 04/10/2015)
Business
slow
despite nearing festive season (kp 03/10/2015)
Bicycle
sales
increase as fuel crisis rattles valley, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 01/10/2015)
Bara-Parsa
industrial
corridor: 2,000 factories remain shut due to Tarai
unrest, by Shankar Acharya (kp 30/09/2015)
Building
brick
kilns back better, by Pragati Shahi (kp 27/09/2015)
Minister:
New
statute has buoyed foreign investors (kp 25/09/2015)
Govt
to
allow restaurants to set up micro breweries (kp
24/09/2015), IPB
decides
to allow operation of microbreweries in country (kp
24/09/2015)
South
Asian
women entrepreneurs meet (kp 23/09/2015)
Tarai
unrest
hits industries in Sunsari-Morang corridor, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 23/09/2015)
‘Message
of
stability’ to investors, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
21/09/2015)
TeliaSonera
to
quit Nepal, Eurasia mkts, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
18/09/2015)
NOC
mulls
issuing gas station permits (kp 18/09/2015)
Kirtipur
fair
to promote local products, culture (kp 17/09/2015)
Bara-Parsa
industrial
corridor hit by strikes: Businesses incur losses
amounting to billions of rupees due to month-long bandh,
by Ram Sarraf (ht 16/09/2015)
Auto
dealers
hopeful of market rebound (kp 15/09/2015)
Impact
of
strikes more damaging than quake: FNCCI (kp
13/09/2015)
Imports
makelife
hard for rice mills: In the past four years, 250 out of
the 300 rice mills have closed down. Half of the
remaining mills are also in the red, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 12/09/2015)
Prolonged
Tarai
turmoil cripples industrial estates: Industries in Bara,
Parsa and Rautahat report incurring daily loss of Rs 640
million (ht 10/09/2015)
Tarai
bandh
dents earnings of exporters, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 09/09/2015)
80pc
Korea
returnees embrace entrepreneurship (ht 08/09/2015)
Domestic
investment
commitments halve: Foreign direct investment pledges
more than triple (kp 07/09/2015)
New
businesses
bring more income to Badi youths (kp 31/08/2015)
Footwear
makers
foray into women’s segment (kp 29/08/2015)
Nepal
Drugs
seeks Rs 150m to resume operation (ht 29/08/2015)
Dividend
payments
by PEs double to Rs13b (kp 29/08/2015)
Loss-ravaged
Chitwan
Milk closes down, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 28/08/2015)
The
price
of information: Dear private bankers of Nepal, please
pay for research to generate data needed to improve your
business, by Pratyoush Onta (kp 24/08/2015)
FDI
pledges
high but actual investments low, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
24/08/2015)
Preliminary
expenses
to be lumped with FDI (kp 19/08/2015)
Branded
stores
launch summer clearance sale (kp 17/08/2015)
Panel
orders
removal of contract staff at NOC (kp 14/08/2015)
Yarsagumba
collectors
unhappy as prices plunge, by Manoj Badu (kp
12/08/2015)
Special
economic
zone: Amendment to working procedure by this week (kp
09/08/2015), Govt
preparing
to amend SEZ operating guidelines (ht 09/08/2015)
Businesses
returning
to normal in Dolakha, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
09/08/2015)
25pc
of
firms inspected last FY lacked operating licences: DosCM
(kp 04/08/2015)
FDI
commitment
surged by 235pc last fiscal year (ht 01/08/2015)
Shoppers
avoiding
malls even 3 mths after quake (kp 31/07/2015)
Nepal’s
auto
imports up 29pc in last fiscal (ht 30/07/2015)
Road
expansion,
rural demand drive bus sales, by Suman Bashyal (kp
28/07/2015)
Car
dealers
launch new models to revive sales (kp 24/07/2015)
Only
11pc
of post-quake insurance claims settled, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 23/07/2015)
Unfunded
liabilities
of PEs swell to Rs27b, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
18/07/2015)
NOC
posts
Rs18b profit after 5 years of losses (kp 17/07/2015)
Dairy
industry
has 3,000 tonnes of ghee unsold, by Suman Bashyal (kp
14/07/2015)
386k
industries
registered in first eight months of FY (kp 13/07/2015)
PEs’
cumulative
losses jump (kp 13/07/2015), Majority
of
PEs to book profit this fiscal (ht 13/07/2015)
Dairy
industry
loses edge as foreign products flood market (rep
10/07/2015)
CNI
seeks
aid for new industries (kp 08/07/2015)
CNI
demands
government to allow ODI (ht 08/07/2015)
SEZ
to
scrap full occupancy proviso, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
07/07/2015)
No
fair
price shops this festive season if due not cleared: PEs,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 06/07/2015)
Auto
registrations
hit all-time high, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 03/07/2015)
Nepali
private
sector: After the disaster, by Surendra Bir Malakar
(ht 03/07/2015)
Applications
open
for business accelerator programme (kp 02/07/2015)
Non-life
insurers
settle 15.82pc of claims till date (ht 30/06/2015)
CNI:
Involve
pvt sector in reconstruction drive (kp 29/06/2015)
Domestic
candy
makers compete against imports (kp 29/06/2015)
‘Doing
ethical
business’moderate in central region (ht 29/06/2015)
FNCCI
prez
hopefuls to file nomination papers, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 27/06/2015), 3
running for FNCCI president, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
28/06/2015), FNCCI’s
presidential
race begins: Three candidates file nominations; past
presidents urge consensus, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
28/06/2015), Rajkarnikar
pulls
out of prez race, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 01/07/2015), Murarka
assured
top FNCCI post as contenders step aside: When he is sworn
in on Friday, Pashupati Murarka will be the first
president from the Marwari community in two decades ,
by Sanjeev Giri (kp 02/07/2015), Murarka
nominated
FNCCI president, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 04/07/2015),
Murarka new prez of FNCCI,Rana senior VP (ht
04/07/2015)
Businessmen
cash
in on I/NGO ‘spending spree’: Several I/NGO have leased
out many vehicles for upto 3 months as local businessmen
buy 150 new vehicles to rent them out, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 25/06/2015)
DoCSM:
Put
MRP on packaged goods; The department will give a
three-month deadline to the traders and manufacturers to
comply with the directive, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
25/06/2015)
Ice-cream
sales
slow as quake chills demand, by Suman Bashyal (kp
25/06/2015)
IB
moots
authority with greater independence (kp 24/06/2015)
Govt
not
checking foreign entrepreneurs for criminal records,
by Shreejana Shrestha (rep 24/06/2015)
IB
to
boost paid-up capital for insurers, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 23/06/2015)
Gas
bottlers
flout safety cap rule: Most companies use aluminium caps
as cheaper option, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 22/06/2015)
Growing
interest
in prefab houses, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 21/06/2015)
Slim
chances
of consensus in upcoming FNCCI election (ht
21/06/2015), Ex-FNCCI
chiefs
for unanimous prez (kp 23/06/2ß15)
FDI
commitment
post quake does not disappoint: DoI (ht 19/06/2015)
Footwear
industry
faces raw material shortage, by Suman Basyal (kp
18/06/2015)
Dangote
plans
to build cement factory in Nepal (ht 18/06/2015)
Insurance
Board
promises to rescue insurers in difficulty (kp
15/06/2015), Sagarmatha
gets
highest quake-related claims (kp 15/06/2015)
Will
NOC
distribute bonus this year? (ht 13/06/2015)
Improve
insurance
claims settlement provisions: Expert; Lack of
understanding of the process has delayed payment of
insurance coverage (kp 12/06/2015)
13
Nepse-listed
cos claim severe damage, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
11/062015)
SC
allows
pvt traders in petroleum business (ht 12/06/2015)
Hardware
stores
booked for overcharging customers (kp 10/06/2015)
Bullion
market
stirs back to life as customers rise (kp 10/06/2015)
We
must
get back to business, by Surendra Tandukar (ht
07/06/2015)
‘Private
sector
can produce enough building materials’ (kp 06/06/2015)
Markets
start
humming again as shoppers return (kp 05/06/2015)
Labour
shortage
hits businesses, by Ramesh Shrestha (ht 05/06/2015)
Insurers
have
settled only 3.6pc of claims (ht 05/06/2015)
FNCCI
estimates
private sector losses at Rs100b (kp 03/06/2015)
FDI
pledges
up 250 percent in first 10 months this FY (kp
02/06/2015)
Insurance
cos
told not to issue dividends (kp 01/06/2015), Only
1.5
pc of quake related insurance claims settled so far,
by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 01/06/2015)
Zinc
sheet
factories running below full capacity due to load-shedding,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 30/05/2015)
FNCCI
removes
Pandey from president’s post: Fresh election on July 3;
efforts underway for electing new president unanimously
(kp 28/05/2015)
Regulator
tells
insurance cos not to hike premium, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 26/05/2015)
Once
busy
marketplaces of Capital bear deserted look, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ht 24/05/2015)
Valley
shops
start to reopen (kp 22/05/2015)
IB
tells
insurers not to hike premiums, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
21/05/2015)
Quake
affects
2k entrepreneurs: Self-employment scheme (kp
17/05/2015)
Realty
sector
faces loss of at least Rs 7.5bn due to quake (ht
12/05/2015)
Most
shopping
malls in valley reopen partially, by Suman Bashyal
(kp)
Rice
producers
focus on branding, marketing, by Suman Bashyal (kp
24/04/2015)
Energy
crisis,
transport syndication cripple manufacturing sector, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 24/04/2015)
Realty
sector
rebounds from prolonged slump (kp 22/04/2015)
Foreign
investment
optimism: Sound domestic policies are required to reap the
potential benefits of foreign investment, by Ram C.
Acharya (kp 20/04/2015)
Nepal
Telecom
to launch convergent real time billing (kp 18/04/2015)
Weaving
yarns
of success: Allo textile business has economically
empowered and upgraded living standards of women of
Syaulibang village, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 15/04/2015)
Chitwan
Milk
fights for life amid foreign competition, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 15/04/2015)
5th
Real
Estate Expo to start from Friday (kp 14/04/2015), Real
Estate
Expo ’15 kicks off (kp 17/04/2015), Choose
your
home sweet home at real estate expo, by Suman Bashyal
(kp 18/04/2015), Housing
fair
sees sales, bookings of Rs3.25b (kp 21/04/2015)
Heavy
equipment
sales soar on building frenzy (kp 13/04/2015)
FNCCI
‘to
hold fresh election’ for president, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 12/04/2015), FNCCI
to
seek clarification from Pandey (kp 14/04/2015), New
cracks
start surfacing at FNCCI, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
14/04/2015)
‘Buy
Nepali’
drive to be made more effective (kp 11/04/2015)
Turning
idea
into business venture, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
11/04/2015)
OAG,
NTA
lock horns: Telecom authority refuses to transfer Rs 14bn
to state coffers citing lack of provision in law (ht
03/04/2015)
Durbarmarg
to
open 24 hours, by Anup Ojha (03/04/2015)
IB
takes
action against United Insurance, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
02/04/2015)
Nepali
smartphones
elbow into competitive market, by Suman Bashyal (kp
31/03/2015)
Into
thin
air: 25pc of co-ops untraceable, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
30/03/2015)
SC
verdict
allows PEB to resume work, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
27/03/2015)
Made
in
Nepal Expo from April 10 (kp 26/03/2015)
Government
loses
Rs 4b on failed corporations (kp 25/03/2015)
Bhairahawa
SEZ
gets cool response from private sector, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 24/03/2015), Lack
of
provision on strikes waries industrialists: Labour problem
is one of the impediments blocking investment, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 25/03/2015), Tax
breaks
promised to factories set up in SEZ, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 27/03/2015), MoI
to
table SEZ Bill for approval in next House session (ht
27/03/2015)
Summer
stirs
ice cream makers into action, by Suman Bashyal (kp
24/03/2015)
Insurers
not
making full compensation: IB (kp 23/03/2015)
Next
SC
hearing to decide Casino Royale’s fate, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 21/03/2015)
CG,
NE
acquire Summit Hotel (kp 19/03/2015)
Flora
Expo
slated to start from March 21 (kp 17/03/2015)
Govt
prepares
to amend casino regulation (ht 15/03/2015)
Nepali
pickle
makers come into their own (kp 14/03/2015)
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