Nepal
Country Profile: Nepal
Background
Nepal is among the world’s least-developed countries. It has endured extreme political instability in recent years because of its transition from absolute monarchy to democracy and because of its years of struggle between the state and militant Maoist insurgents, who control large...
ONI Blog: ONI Releases Reports on Filtering in Asia, China
New research from the OpenNet Initiative reveals accelerating restrictions on Internet content as Asian governments shift to next generation controls. These new techniques go beyond blocking access to websites and are more informal and fluid, implemented at edges of the network, and...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Burma, China, India, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Japan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Asia, Non-filtering content restrictions, Surveillance, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Back Online in Nepal?
The Media Drop interviews the blogger from Radio Free Nepal, who claims that Nepal's Internet is back up and running. Filtering of some Web sites, such as those of the Maoist rebels, evidently remains in place....
ONI Blog: Nepal: Internet Down, Media Censorship Imposed
Following reports that Nepal's Internet had been shutdown after King Gyanendra seized power, I tested 578 .np (Nepal) domains, retrieved from Google (site:.np) to determine if they were accessible. The results show that 278 .np domains, presumably hosted...
ONI Blog: Nepal clamps down on Internet sites
After dismissing the government in a coup, King Gyanendra of Nepal has suspended many of the country's constitutional guarantees, including freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This apparently extends to the country's Web sites as well....
