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- ↑ Population by origin and generation, 1 January, The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, 2010, retrieved 3 May 2010
- ↑ "BCN organizes Dasain-Tihar programme", Bhutan News Service.com, 3 November 2011.
- ↑ "The Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP) Archived 17 October 2002 at the Wayback Machine ", Netherlands Alumni Association of Nepal (NAAN)
- ↑ "An Interview with Birendra Giri, PhD", Nepali World News, April 2010.
- ↑ "Nepalese Samaj Netherlands", NepaleseAbroad.com.
