''The Kathmandu Post'' is a major daily
newspaper
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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 ma ...
. 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, the owners of Nepal's largest selling newspaper, the Nepali-language ''
Kantipur''.
[ ] ''Post'' is a member of the
Asia News Network, 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
Anup Kaphle, 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 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
Ivo Daalder, a former US ambassador to NATO, which was originally published in The Korea Herald, a member of the
Asia News Network, with an accompanying
stock illustration from
Shutterstock that showed
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...
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
coronavirus
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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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Daily newspapers published in Nepal
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1993 establishments in Nepal
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