By Sambridhi Shrestha Nepal is a landlocked country sandwiched between India and China; two of the top developing countries in the world. However, Nepal has not been able to use potential economic benefits from its neighbors. The country is highly dependent on imports...
By Dean Whittaker The Poem, “If,” by Rudyard Kipling comes to mind as I reflect on the times. Here’s a section from it as a reminder and a link to the entire poem: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If...
By Jami Gibson I came home on New Year’s Eve afternoon to a brightly-colored present waiting on my front porch. Inside was a beautiful journal and a card from a close friend with a challenge to keep daily entries for 2017. Now for just over a month, I’ve been spending...
By Sharad KC Every week our team in Michigan and Kathmandu meet online for a weekly update. While most of our conversation is about the work we do, we also spend a few minutes talking about three things we’re grateful for over the previous week. This is by far the...
By Saurav Rajbhandari Extracting oil and natural gas from shale started from The Barnett Shale located in Texas more than a decade ago. The Barnett shale in Texas and Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania are two of the largest producers of Shale oil and gas. Apart from...
