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Man, we worked SO hard to make today go. We woke up bound and determined to get at least two of the four interviews that didn’t happen Saturday due to the strikes. The transportation strike is still on, and that meant that there were no taxis or private cars moving through the city (and of [...]

So, as reported in the article copied below, Kathmandu is in a condition of general road strikes. There is a great deal of hubbub about petroleum prices–basically the government can’t afford to subsidize the stuff, and it costs the same here as it does in the states.
Only, most people here earn no more than a [...]