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Al Arabiya
5 hours ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Nepal PM welcomes ‘good news' gas discovery
Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli welcomed as 'good news' on Friday the discovery of large methane gas reserves in the Himalayan nation in a joint study with China. 'The news that there are 112 billion cubic meters of gas... is good news,' Oli said in a Facebook post. The Department of Mines and Geology said the gas was discovered in the western district of Dailekh. 'This is an initial estimate. Lab tests of the samples will give more information on the characteristics of the reserve,' Prakash Luitel, a geologist at the department, told AFP. The study was conducted with the government-run China Geological Survey. 'The final report is expected in December. We will then get better information for the next stage,' said the mines and geology department's spokesman Mukunda Bhattarai. He said drilling was done at a depth of up to 4,013 meters (13,166 feet). Petroleum products remain landlocked Nepal's top import despite Kathmandu boosting energy production in recent years through a dam-building spree. Nepal spent more than $1.5 billion on petroleum products over the past 10 months, accounting for nearly 16 percent of total imports, according to central bank data.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Race Across the World secrets revealed from axed US route to future location hints
Race Across the World (RATW) producers have been spilling the secrets from behind the scenes of the hit show. Wednesday marked the end of the RATW series with it's reunion episode. The five teams — winners Caroline and Tom, sisters Elizabeth and Letitia, brothers Melvyn and Brian, teen couple Sioned and Fin as well as ex married couple Yin and Gaz — reunited for the first time six months after the race. The journey took them from The Great Wall of China, through Nepal to the southern tip of India Kanyakumari. From sharing hints about future locations to revealing the route that was cancelled, Production Executive Kezia Walker and Producer Lucy Curtis from Studio Lambert revealed everything that happens during filming RATW on and off camera. The RATW masterclass was presented by Televisual and Sony at The Producers in a video shared on YouTube. Race Across the World nearly had an entirely different name, producers revealed. The idea was pitched as "Flightless" because the idea centres around the contestants not being able to catch planes between the destinations. It was only later in the development stage that it would get the great name "Race Across the World". A Race Across the World (RATW) route that travelled through parts of the US had to be axed because of visa issues, Studio Lambert producers have said. Series two was meant to start in bustling New York City but the contestants didn't get their visa applications back in time. The Studio Lambert team had to make last minute changes to the race route, just weeks before beginning filming. Curtis said: "We prefer it when things go wrong when we are filming because it can become the story. The frustrating thing is if it goes wrong three days before we're about to start our filming. "On series two... our route was meant to be New York to the Argentina, the southern most tip Ushuaia, and about three or four weeks before we were due to start filming, we found out we weren't going to get our US visas in time. "So we had to pivot and set up a whole new launch in Mexico City. With three weeks to go. It ended up being a brilliant launch and loved doing it there." Leg 1 - Mexico City, Mexico to Copán Ruinas, Honduras Leg 2 - Copán Ruinas, Honduras to Panama City, Panama Leg 3 - Panama City, Panama to Tatacoa Desert, Colombia (flight to Jaén Airport) Leg 4 - Jaén, Peru to Puno, Peru Leg 5 - Puno, Peru to Cafayate, Argentina Leg 6 - Cafayate, Argentina to Ilha Grande, Brazil Leg 7 - Ilha Grande, Brazil to Mendoza, Argentina Leg 8 - Mendoza, Argentina to Ushuaia, Argentina The TV producers want things to go wrong during the race. In the 2025 series, viewers were outraged when Yin and Gaz and Caroline and Tom were stranded by the typhoon in China. The producers said disasters are part of the storytelling of race. Walker said: "The things that you think are going to be a problem actually like says that's where the story often comes from." In fact, in series one a huge problem from the recce also became a disaster on the race that played out on-screen. Curtis shared: "In series one our assistant producer who's doing it had to cross the Caspian Sea between Azabaijan and Kazakhstan. And there's no passenger ferries. There's freight ferries that go kind of once every 28 days or something. And on the ferry it broke down and he was stuck there for three days. And we asked him to do video diaries and his video diaries came through and they were just gold. "And we just knew this was going to be this he was sort of going slightly stir crazy in this cabin with Kazakhstani truck drivers. And then the same thing happened on the shoot. The ferry broke down again when we were filming." Sharing the secrets, one of the producers also hinted at possible routes for the future series. They said that there hadn't been any significant changes to the format because new locations and routes made the series feel fresh. Then there's also the new set of contestants who have their stories to share. However, the producers hinted they could be looking at returning to some of the destinations they have previously visited for future series. Curtis said: "We haven't actually made really any significant changes to the format of the show itself, just because filming in brand new locations every year makes it feel fresh. We always say that every time we film it, it films feels like a first series all over again because we're filming in a brand new part of the world. "Brand new challenges, brand new excitements and also the contributors there's unlimited stories to tell. We're casting at the moment and we've had this wish list of people that we're looking for. And all these people have come through that are nothing like the people on our wish list but are completely new in different ways. "And it just makes you think it you know it's sort of unlimited really the stories we could keep on telling and we've got other ideas which I'm probably not allowed to say about about how we can go back to places we've already been but do them in a kind of different way." RATW series one: London to Singapore RATW series two: Mexico City to Ushuaia, Argentina RATW series three: Vancouver to St John's, Newfoundland in Canada Celebrity series one: Marrakech, Morocco to Tromso, Norway RATW series four: Sapporo, Japan to Lombok, Indonesia Celebrity series two: Belem, Brazil to Frutillar, Chile RATW series five: Great Wall of China to India Race Across the World: The Reunion is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Telegraph
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Race Across the World's reunion episode was a charming farewell to one of its best series
Nobody really needed Race Across the World: The Reunion (BBC One). The race finished last week in an entirely satisfactory manner. However, the BBC likes to flog a hit for all its worth, so viewers got this follow-up programme anyway. I'm glad we did. It was a suitably life-affirming farewell to a heartwarming series. Six months since the globe-trotting contest climaxed at the southernmost tip of India, our five intrepid pairs gathered to reflect on their epic 14,000km odyssey across China, Nepal and India. Meeting up with friends you made on holiday often backfires. Once the tans fade and the sundowners stop flowing, so does the conversation. Happily, this was a lot less awkward. They met as strangers but are forever bound together by their shared experience. The forgotten team, former married couple Yin and Gaz, were knocked out before the midway mark but now gained a sense of closure. Yin tearfully admitted how she'd struggled with her heritage while travelling through China. Since returning home, she had built bridges with her family and made peace with her past. Sixtysomething siblings Brian and Melvyn, who finished fourth, rebuilt their brotherly bond on the road.'Things got a bit emotional but a cold beer sorted it,' said the typically phlegmatic Melvyn. Having emerged as the race's cult hero, he stole the show again, declaring, 'Up the oldies!' Still the cheering updates kept coming. Teenage sweethearts Fin and Sioned, who claimed the bronze medal, had caught the travel bug and since been on a trip around Australia. The race runners-up, sisters Elizabeth and Letitia, were inspired to build their own homestay in Kenya. Victorious mother-and-son duo Caroline and Tom were similarly reborn. Caroline was newly carefree, while Tom's confidence had blossomed so much that he was now self-employed and excitedly planning his next adventure. Those who had become tired of the sob stories won't have been appeased by some of the navel-gazing. There was plentiful talk of 'personal growth' and 'moving forward'. Yet the show and its participants are so likeably wholesome, it was hard to be too cynical. Caroline and Tom might have clinched the £20,000 prize but money was barely mentioned. Indeed, the winnings are so incidental to the show's magical mix, it's easy to forget there's cash involved at all. When it comes to Race Across the World, it truly is the taking part that counts. We were treated to unseen clips – cue backpack-laden dashes down streets, like panicking turtles – and breathtaking scenery. Everyone paid tribute to helpful locals and praised the kindness of strangers. Behind-the-scenes footage revealed how embedded film crews captured their every move. It made for a fascinating insight into the vast logistical operation required to make the show. My main complaint was that the location for the reunion – a wood-panelled suite at London's L'Oscar hotel – bore a distracting resemblance to the Round Table showdowns from BBC stablemate The Traitors. I kept expecting a tweed-clad Claudia Winkleman to pop up and demand that somebody be banished. Please, anyone but Melvyn. The last word went to winner Tom. 'It's important to enjoy the journey, as well as the destination,' he concluded. This was a celebratory, albeit non-essential, way to sign off. Now how about applying for next year's race?
SBS Australia
3 days ago
- General
- SBS Australia
SBS Nepali Australian News Headlines: Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Nepali-speaking Australians. Stories about women of Nepali heritage in Australia who are about to become parents.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Scotland lose out to Nepal in low-scoring T20
T20 Tri-Series, GlasgowScotland 97 (19.4): Leask 46, Cross 15; Lamichhane 4-11Nepal 98-8 (19.5) : Bhurtel 30, Airee 14; Sharif 2-13Nepal win by two wicketsScorecard Scotland fell short in their fightback against Nepal, as a single from the penultimate ball gave the tourists victory a low-scoring T20 Tri-Series match being put into bat in overcast and breezy conditions at Clydesdale, hosting its third match of the week, Scotland crumbled as Nepal wreaked havoc with the Watt was removed with just the fifth delivery of the afternoon by Dipendra Singh Airee and by the end of the fifth over the Scots were five Michael Leask, who ended with 46, and captain Matthew Cross helped put up a brief resistance, Sandeep Lamichhane cleaned up the lower order by taking four wickets for just 11 runs to leave Nepal needing just 98 to despite looking like they would reach the winning line with plenty to spare, disciplined bowling from Scotland took another dramatic match right to the Sharif had Kiran Thagunna caught in the final over as Nepal went eight down while needing just a single from the final two they composed themselves to get it with the penultimate delivery as Lamichhane added to his bowling heroics by grabbing the winning next face the Netherlands on Wednesday before finishing their series against Nepal on Friday as they warm up for next month's T20 World Cup qualifiers."It was a game of two halves," Scotland captain Cross told BBC Scotland."We didn't bat very well to be honest. I think the first five or six overs being five wickets down is tough to come back from."Having said that, I think we put in a decent effort to make the game go as close to the wire as we could. So I'm proud of the performance in the second half."Losing five wickets in the powerplay, you don't win many games like that. The pitch was trickier but we expect more of ourselves to build a score when it is like that." Having defeated the Netherlands by 39 runs in their opening match of the series, the Scots ought to have been in a buoyant mood on home from the start it was Nepal, who lost to the Dutch on Monday after an unprecedented third super over, who were inspired in front of a raucous band of fans on Glasgow's sunny south Watt trudged to the pavilion before the end of the first over, he was quickly joined by George Munsey who spooned one to Airee off the bowling of Karan McCreath and Brandon McMullen were also caught playing loosely, while Liam Naylor was run out as Scotland toiled to 32-5 after the and Leask shared 39 but Scotland's respite was short-lived thanks to bowling Cross and Christopher McBride in consecutive deliveries, he later trapped Safyaan Sharif lbw before Jack Jarvis became the 24-yer-old's fourth victim as he departed for a was the final man to fall at the hand of Airee as he tried to blast his way to 50 in the final few reply Nepal hit 31 for the loss of two wickets in their powerplay, before better bowling from Scotland and a soggy pitch slowed the opener Kushal Bhurtel was removed for 30 in the 13th over, things started to slowly turn in Scotland's added to his batting resistance with two wickets, including a brilliant catch from his own delivery to dismiss Basir though Sharif looked like he could win it for Scotland after Thagunna walked, ultimately Doug Watson's side had given themselves too much to do.
