Tycoons
The families and founders who own Nepali business.
Ang Tshering Sherpa built the Yeti group from a trekking kitchen. His heirs inherited its hardest tests
Seven years after the Yeti founder died in a helicopter crash, the group he built has lost control of its airline to an insurer, is preparing a share offering and faces a court case over state land in Kathmandu.
Binod Chaudhary, Nepal's only billionaire, a year after the fire
The uprising burned his home and the election that followed took his seat, yet Forbes still values Nepal's only billionaire at $2.1bn and the new prime minister has invited him to talk investment.
Upendra Mahato's road from Siraha to Moscow and back
He turned $600 into a business spanning Russian electronics, Belarusian machinery and Nepal's first private mobile network, then founded the diaspora association whose split and reunion he has watched from its edge.
How Chandra Dhakal built a bank on the money Nepalis send home
In 2001 most of Nepal's remittances moved through informal hundi brokers. The IME founder bet that migrant workers would trust a licensed company instead, and turned that bet into the country's largest bank.