The Kathmandu Post

"The Kathmandu Post" is a major daily newspaper published in Nepal. Centred in the capital Kathmandu, it is the one of the largest English-language newspapers in the country.cite web|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=66AJ5IX4pE4C&printsec=frontcover#PPA57,M1|title=Lonely Planet Nepal|page=p.57|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2003|isbn=1740594223|work=Lonely Planet|last=Mayhew|first=Bradley|coauthors=Everist, Richard; Brown, Lindsay; Finlay, Hugh; Vivequin, Wanda] cite book|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lcbUIOTcE18C&printsec=frontcover#PPA53,M1|page=p.53|title=The Rough Guide to Nepal|last=Reed|first=David|coauthors=McConnachie, James|date=2002|accessdate=2008-08-12|isbn=1858288991|work=Rough Guides] "The Kathmandu Post" is independently-owned,cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,18101402-1702,00.html|title=Pro-royal candidates sweep Nepal poll|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2006-02-10|work=The Sunday Times] and is published by Kantipur Publications, the owners of Nepal's largest selling newspaper, the Nepali-language "Kantipur".cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/01/asia/AS-GEN-Nepal-Newspaper-Attacked.php|title=Nepal's largest newspaper office attacked by ex-communist rebels' union|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2007-10-01|work=International Herald Tribune|publisher=Associated Press] It is a member of the Asia News Network, an alliance of nineteen Asian newspapers.cite web|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/06/18/pakistan039s-039the-nation039-joins-asia-news-network.html|title=Pakistan's 'The Nation' joins Asia News Network|date=2008-06-18|accessdate=2008-08-12|work=The Jakarta Post]

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. The printing press was vandalised, stopping the paper from being published. Two-hundred journalists and legal professions marched in Kathmandu in protest at the attacks.cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/02/asia/AS-GEN-Nepal-Journalists-Protest.php|title=Nepalese protest in capital over attack on newspaper|date=2007-10-02|work=International Herald Tribune|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=2008-08-12]

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