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IANS
Thursday, January 04, 2007 22:11 IST

Maoist cadres have gone around ordering house owners not to let out
rooms to lesbians and homosexuals

KATHMANDU: After being persecuted by King Gyanendra's regime and the
new multi-party government, Nepal's homosexual community is now at the
receiving end of a society clean up drive launched by Maoist

PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT GAINS NEW HEIGHT

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DEFY CURFEW ACROSS THE COUNTRY

The pro-democratic republic movement has gained new height during these days in Nepal. People from everywhere joined the huge protesmarch after stopping their personal and official duty. Civil servants including doctors, teachers and employers of public banks, companies and authorities, the personalities of civil society, human right organisation, and lawyers, journalists, writers joined the demonstration with peasants–workers and students youths against autocratic feudalistic monarchy to establish democratic republic in Nepal. Thousands of people defying 5 consecutive days (April 11) curfew and other restrictions across the country. Women participation is significant in the demonstration. Despite the excessive use of force by royal security personnel to crackdown on protests, people have intensified their demonstrations across the country.

By NEELESH MISRA (Associated Press) , 04.09.2006, 05:09 PM

The crisis in this Himalayan nation deepened Sunday as angry crowds demanding the restoration of democracy took to the streets across Nepal in defiance of a daytime curfew, throwing stones at security forces and burning government offices.

With King Gyanendra and his swelling opposition both refusing to back down, the situation appeared to be reaching its most volatile point since he seized absolute power more than a year ago. The well-armed communist insurgency has allied itself with the political opposition, which vowed Sunday to continue demonstrations indefinitely. The government warned of harsher measures in response.

Korean farmers take lemming-like plunge into Hong Kong harbour

Jonathan Watts in Hong Kong
Wednesday December 14, 2005
Guardian

In a bizarre waterborne protest yesterday, hundreds of South Korea's notoriously militant farmers stripped off to their boxer shorts, donned orange lifejackets and leapt into Hong Kong harbour in a back-door attempt to sink the world trade talks.

The lemming-like assault came amid an opening day demonstration that, contrary to the organisers' worst fears, saw only minor scuffles with ranks of riot police blocking the road to the conference centre.

Divisions among Nepal's Maoists
By Akhilesh Upadhyay

KATHMANDU - In the past nine years, Nepal's Maoist movement has grown so fast that it is now a proud citation for revolutionaries around the world. To them, the Maoists from this impoverished Himalayan kingdom give intellectual sustenance at a time when the days of communists toppling the state have long gone.

Maoism on the March?

Meanwhile, in Nepal...

By GARY LEUPP

While the U.S. is absorbed in building an empire in the "Greater Middle
East," which will strengthen its position vis-a-vis other imperialist
powers through the "New American Century," a revived specter of communism
emerges throughout South Asia. And there's not much the U.S. can do about it.