At least 165 people have died and thousands have fled their homes as monsoon floods swept across Nepal, India and Bangladesh, officials said Monday, warning the toll could rise as the extent of the damage becomes clear. Three days of relentless downpours sparked flash floods ...
When stay-at-home mom Mika Sato found herself in Nepal meeting girls rescued from the country's sex trade, she couldn't escape seeing her young daughter's face in theirs, and she knew she had to do something to help. Just months later, Sato opened a cafe in ...
An Indian climber went missing while descending the "death zone" after scaling Mount Everest, officials said Sunday, following the death of two climbers over the past month. Ravi Kumar, 26, was climbing down from the 8,850-meter-high (29,035 feet) summit and got separated from his guide ...
Technology has a critical role to play in helping Nepal to overcome past tragedy and to leapfrog from its current state of development.
A Taiwanese trekker who went missing over six weeks ago in the Himalayas of Nepal was rescued on Wednesday, but his Taiwanese girlfriend who was with him died earlier this week, a Nepalese mountaineering official said. The 21-year-old man, identified as Liang Sheng-yue, told rescuers ...
A 29-year-old Nepalese student in Tokyo has found herself stuck in limbo with her dreams derailed, and the state of Japan’s language schools is to blame.
Dr. Govinda KC spent 22 days lying on a gurney in a hospital in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, but he was not a patient. The orthopedic surgeon was on hunger strike. Dr. KC has gone on hunger strike 10 times over the past four years in ...
The Nepalese Army said Tuesday it has drained a dangerous glacial lake in the Mount Everest region, successfully completing a pilot project aimed at averting glacial lake outburst floods in the country. Lt. Col. Bharat Lal Shrestha said it took a team of 40 soldiers ...
A search is underway for a man believed to be Hirotaka Onodera, 23, who slipped and fell near the summit of Nepal’s Mt. Manaslu on Oct. 7.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 14 Nepalese security guards in an attack Monday on their minibus in the Afghan capital, the Interior Ministry and an Afghan security official said. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a bomb rigged to a motorbike killed 10 Afghan civilians during morning rush ...
Police in Nepal have arrested 36 people who were working as doctors with fake credentials and education certificates in a sweeping operation across the Himalayan nation. Central Investigation Bureau official Dibesh Lohani said Monday that those arrested were working in reputed hospitals, health clinics and ...
Everest is speckled with corpses. Nearly 300 people have died on the mountain in the century since climbers began trying to reach its summit. At least 100 are still on its slopes — perhaps 200. Most of the bodies are hidden in deep crevasses or ...
