{"id":730161,"date":"2026-08-07T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730161\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:54:13","slug":"nepal-in-tight-spot-as-us-seeks-special-treatment-for-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730161\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal in tight spot as US seeks special treatment for Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/3.png\" alt=\"20260731 PA Nepal Starlink img\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Nepal lags its neighbors\u00a0in internet use, largely due to its challenging\u00a0Himalayan topography. SpaceX has offered its Starlink\u00a0satellite internet service to solve this, but the company is resisting a legal requirement that it share ownership of its Nepali operations with a local partner.\u00a0(Nikkei illustration)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/policy-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Elon Musk offers SpaceX&#8217;s internet service as alternative to Chinese-run networks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nepal lags its neighbors\u00a0in internet use, largely due to its challenging\u00a0Himalayan topography. SpaceX has offered its Starlink\u00a0satellite internet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[59094,90,241372,416,7429,60061,9676,156698,15443,56,54,55,741],"class_list":["post-730161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-nepal","tag-science","tag-seeks","tag-space","tag-special","tag-spot","tag-starlink","tag-tight","tag-treatment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}