Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori wound up his four-nation South Asia after a six-hour stop in Kathmandu on Friday and went home with Nepal's support to Japan's call for reforms in the UN.

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The full moon in the holy month of Gunla is when Buddhist Newars have flocked to the bahals of the Valley to listen to priests read ancient sacred scriptures. The teachings of Lord Budda is in a book ...

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