''The Kathmandu Post'' is a major daily

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published in

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. Founded in February 1993 by

Shyam Goenka Shyam Goenka (born 7 March 1963 in Janakpur) is the founder of Nepal's first broadsheets in the Non-Government sector, christened ''Kantipur'' and ''The Kathmandu Post''. He is a champion and an ardent believer in the sanctity of the free press and ...

, it is one of the largest English-language newspapers in the country. The newspaper is independently owned and published by

Kantipur Publications Kantipur Publications Pvt. Ltd. ( ne, कान्तिपुर पब्लिकेशन्स प्रा. लि.) is a media firm based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The company operates five widely circulated print publications. It is the first ...

, the owners of Nepal's largest selling newspaper, the Nepali-language ''

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''. ''Post'' is a member of the

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, an alliance of nineteen Asian newspapers. The ''Kathmandu Post'' is Nepal's first privately owned English broadsheet daily, and is Nepal's largest selling English language newspaper, with a daily circulation of 95,000 copies. The Post's first five pages are primarily dedicated to national news and each day, the last page offers a variety of features, including explainers, interviews, auto reviews, and restaurant reviews and destinations. During the weekdays, the newspaper also features culture & arts pages, which cover national and international news on society, life & style, fashion and technology. On the weekends, the Post focuses on long-form journalism, satire and creative non-fiction articles. Since 2018, under the editorship of

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, the Post has started focusing on longer investigative pieces, analyses and explainers, making those the core of its daily reporting.

Controversy

In October 2007, the offices of ''The Kathmandu Post'' were attacked by the All Nepal Printing and Publication Workers' Union, a group connected to the former Maoist rebels of the

Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), abbreviated UCPN (Maoist), (Nepali: एकीकृत नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी)), was a political party in Nepal. It was founded ...

. The printing press was vandalized, stopping the paper from being published. Two hundred journalists and legal professionals marched in Kathmandu in protest at the attacks.

Chinese Embassy controversy

On 18 February 2020, The Kathmandu Post republished an article by

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, a former US ambassador to NATO, which was originally published in The Korea Herald, a member of the

, with an accompanying

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that showed

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wearing a mask. The Chinese Embassy in Nepal took serious exception to the article and the illustration, issuing a press statement that said the article had been published with "malicious intention" and had "deliberately smeared the efforts of the Chinese government and people fighting against the new

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pneumonia and even viciously attacked the political system of China". The press statement was widely condemned by journalists and diplomats for breaching "diplomatic decorum" and was seen as an attempt by the Chinese government to stifle press freedom in a neighboring country.

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