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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.
Photos and story by Lars Howlett Hunkered down at 16,000 feet above sea level, in the modest village of Lobuche, trekkers on the KarmaQuest expedition to Nepal were quick to bed but slow to sleep. By 7 p.m., almost all were zipped up in their sleeping bags, with only one or two remaining members still huddling in the common room around the faint warmth of a stove burning yak dung.
Kathmandu - Nepal's cabinet held a meeting at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday to highlight the effects of climate change on the Himalayas ahead of the upcoming global climate summit in Copenhagen. Twenty-four ministers, including Prime Minister...
The United States is deeply concerned about the stalled peace process in Nepal, three years after the end of a decade-long civil war, a US embassy statement said Saturday.
Kathmandu - Nepalese ministers met at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday ahead of the schedule cabinet meeting to highlight impact of global warming on the Himalayan Mountains, news reports said. Government-owned Nepal television said 24 ministers...
Hundreds of protesters torched vehicles and vandalized shops in western Nepal on Saturday after three people died in clashes between police and illegal forest settlers, a human rights group said, amid heightened political tensions in the Himalayan nation.
Nepal's cabinet met at the base of Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas and adopted a 10-point Everest Declaration.
Editor's note: Robynne Locke, a Seabrook native, is on a three-month odyssey of personal discovery and unselfish giving in India and Nepal. Her chronicles of this journey taken to work with victims of the area's sex trade, appears each Tuesday in the...
(RTTNews) - The UN-sponsored Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen heard voices of concern and complaint on the second day, as delegates of Bangladesh and Nepal said they were disappointed that a draft of potential treaty on climate framed by the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) group does not address the main concerns of the poor and the least developed countries.
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.
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 U.N. climate-change talks.
A Nepalese Buddhist monk performs religious rituals to pray for the protection of earth from climate change and negative impact of global warming on Himalayas, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Scientists say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, creating lakes with walls that could burst and flood villages below.
Editor's note: For the past three months, Seabrook native Robynne Locke has been traveling through India and Nepal working with victims of the area's sex trafficking trade. She has been sharing her stories with Hampton Union readers back home each week,...
SYANGBOCHE, Nepal — Nepal’s top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers.
Tensions erupted when the police tried to remove thousands of squatters in a forest in Kailali District, about 400 miles west of the capital, Katmandu.
Allison Brown decided to create a business dedicated to preserving and restoring traditional Lao buildings.
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