Exhaustion kills two Everest climbers, an American and a Swiss
World 14:24 13/05/2021A Swiss and an American climber have died on Mount Everest, hiking company officials said on Thursday, the first fatalities on the world’s highest peak this season
Vietnam beat Nepal 2-0 to advance to knockout stage at 2018 Asian Games
Vietnam News 11:22 17/08/2018The country is sharing Group D’s lead with Japan as both teams have earned six points with +5 goal difference after two matches
Nepali quake victim, found after 80-hour ordeal, laments his rescue
World 17:30 30/04/2015Nepali farmer Rishi Ram Khanal was looking forward to leaving Nepal for Dubai, where a $220-a-month job as a cleaner at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant promised him the chance to pull his young family out of a life of poverty
Nepalese army gets image boost from quake relief work
World 17:29 30/04/2015In the rubble-strewn Nepali hilltop town of Chautara, a round-the-clock rescue effort by the military is helping to recast the image of an institution once criticized for rights abuses in a brighter and more sympathetic light
Earthquake aftershock hits Nepal and India, magnitude 6.7
World 16:30 26/04/2015The United States Geological Survey said the tremor was 6.7 magnitude, less than the 7.9 quake that struck the region on Saturday killing at least 1,900 people.
Frantic search for Nepal quake survivors as toll tops 2,000
World 15:30 26/04/2015Terrified residents of Kathmandu were woken by fresh aftershocks in the worst disaster to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation in more than 80 years, with many forced to spend the night trying to sleep out on the streets and open ground in tents
Nepal steps up rescue efforts as quake toll jumps to 1,800
World 10:30 26/04/2015Nepal ramped up efforts on Sunday to rescue people trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings after an earthquake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing at least 1,800, and triggered a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest
Nepal seeks help, death toll seen rising after devastating quake
World 09:00 26/04/2015Thousands of people braved freezing temperatures and patchy rain to sleep on pavements, in parks or in fields in the crowded Kathmandu valley, too afraid to return to homes damaged by a 7.9 magnitude quake which struck at midday on Saturday
India, Nepal monsoon floods leave 160 dead
World 21:00 19/06/2013Thousands of pilgrims and tourists have already been evacuated after floods and landslides caused by early monsoon rains wrought devastation through India's Himalayan foothills
