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Kathmandu - Nepal's government Wednesday accused the Maoist former rebels of breaching the peace agreement that ended the decade-long insurgency in the Himalayan nation. It also expressed displeasure over the role of the United Nations Mission in Nep...
By Jennifer Erickson Laguna Beach resident Rosalind Russell was honored in Banepa, Nepal, last week for her charity work helping impoverished women in rural mountain villages there by giving them goats and setting up microbanking operations for them. read more
Nepal's former king is to be made to pay tax for the first time, the government said Wednesday, a year and a half after the world's last Hindu monarch stepped down from the throne.
Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks.
Lynn Martin took two German shorthair pointers to search and rescue squad
There is no diplomatic way to say it: trials right now in Nepal are a sham, the police are corrupt and a mere accusation means languishing in jail for at least 25 days before appearing in a courtroom.
The Nepal government must immediately pursue the arrest of an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old Nepalese girl to death, Amnesty International said today. The major was expelled last week from a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad when the allegations emerged
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Maoists interrupted strikes that are choking the Himalayan nation ’s economy after the party’s leader met with the prime minister in an effort to end a political standoff delaying the writing of a new constitution.
Jeremy Bernstein The Khumbu glacier, at the base of Mount Everest, has shrunk by several miles since Edmund Hillary’s 1953 ascent; photograph by Mark Power, December 1988 (Magnum Photos) In the fall of 1967 with two French friends I trekked from Kathmandu to the base of Mount Everest. At that time, climbing was forbidden in Nepal and the trekking business was in its infancy . During the thirty ...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Maoists interrupted strikes that are choking industrial output in the Himalayan nation after the party’s leader met with the prime minister in an effort to end a standoff over the integration of former rebels into the army.
Amnesty International urged Nepal's government to arrest an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old girl to death during the country's civil war.
Wildlife officials are frantically hunting for a wild elephant which they believe is responsible for the deaths of 11 people in Nepal, Sky News reported.
For two years, Ratna and Machendra Shrestha have enticed diners with savory blends of eastern cuisine--an amalgam of Nepali, Indian, and Tibetan food--in this hidden South Boulder eatery, sandwiched between Table Mesa and the Tantra housing development, next to the new Vic's coffee shop.
Wildlife officials were combing the jungles of southern Nepal on Wednesday in search of a wild elephant that has killed 11 people in the past two weeks.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Nepal's government must arrest an army major expelled from a U.N. peacekeeping force and accused of torturing a girl to death, Amnesty International said.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- India said it will resume military cooperation with Nepal and train Nepalese security personnel after cutting security ties when former King Gyanendra took power and dissolved the multi-party government in February 2005.
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