Nepal begins 2010 with nationwide strike

Nepal has stepped into New Year 2010 not with a celebratory bang but with a nationwide bandh. A conglomerate of various indigenous and ethnic community associations has called a general strike throughout the nation, Friday, demanding the implementation of Convention 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Nepalnews.com, (www.nepalnews.com) is a leading Internet destination dedicated to bring you news, events, polls, discussions, forums about and from Nepal. Our primary objective is to bring "news as it happens"; quality news which is impartial, timely and independent. Our equally important other objective is to make this a web community for all people around the globe who have any interest, or need any information about Nepal.

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