Nepal

Rescue efforts in Nepal have been hindered by the incredible damage last week’s flood inflicted on area roads and bridges, so rescue teams have turned to cable cars and ziplines as the best way to reach people stranded by the disaster.

A growing number of critics in Asia are accusing the Chinese Communist Party this week of irresponsible overdevelopment in the Himalayas.

The Chinese Communist Party confirmed on Monday that it had subjected ten people to “administration penalties” over the past week for allegedly spreading “online rumors” and “misinformation” about the ongoing mudslide and flooding disaster in Tibet.

Rescue workers in Nepal are rushing to save over 900 missing hydropower workers after last week’s devastating flash flood.

The Foreign Ministry of Nepal said on Thursday that it would not accept international rescue teams seeking to help emergency operations following a devastating series of landslides and floods in the country and neighboring Tibet.

A lake that formed along the border between China and Nepal during Wednesday’s terrifying flash floods overflowed on Thursday, prompting a temporary suspension of rescue efforts due to fears of another flood cascade.

Genocidal communist dictator Xi Jinping held a high-level Communist Party meeting on Friday to address the response to the ongoing floods and mudslides in occupied Tibet in which leaders reportedly declared that rescue operations were competent and successful so far.

Torrential rains and swollen rivers caused massive floods and dangerous landslides in Tibet and Nepal on Wednesday, sweeping away villages and destroying crucial roads and bridges.

The Trump administration succeeded in ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly every country targeted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

A missing Sherpa guide who disappeared on Mount Everest while working with a Polish climber has been found alive after nearly a week.

Canada has finally stripped an aid worker of one of the nation’s highest civilian honors years after the former charity founder was convicted in Nepal of using his international work with impoverished children to sexually exploit them.

Even Mount Everest is not immune from fraudsters as a new report has revealed that guides have been using scare tactics, including secretly lacing climbers’ food to sicken them and trigger costly helicopter rescues and hospitalization, as part of a $45 million insurance scam.

A federal court has given President Donald Trump’s administration the green light to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 60,000 migrants living in the United States with no other immigration status.

A huge blizzard swept the slopes of Mount Everest over the weekend, trapping hundreds of climbers and forcing rescue workers to conduct high-altitude evacuations.

Protests and strikes are escalating in Madagascar, where President Andry Rajoelina faces calls for his resignation over mismanagement, water shortages, and power cuts. 

The young protesters who overthrew the government of Communist Party leader K.P. Sharma Oli last week also made a point of storming the Communist Party headquarters and throwing down its infamous hammer and sickle flag.

Protests in Nepal, dubbed the “Gen Z protest” because so many of the participants are young people, continued to escalate on Tuesday with more reports of vandalism, arson, and fatal shootings by police. Nepal’s Communist government was toppled by the protesters on Tuesday with the resignation of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.

Police reportedly opened fire on demonstrators in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, after protests against a government ban on most social media platforms swelled to enormous size on Monday. The official casualty count included 19 dead and 150 injured as of Monday afternoon.

A devastating earthquake rocked a remote region of Tibet near Mt Everest on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing “many buildings.”

Monday marked the eve of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s “general debate,” a unique global event in which the world’s heads of government descend on New York City and receive a platform to discuss any topic of their choosing.

Netflix announced on Tuesday it will address outrage in India over a historical drama about the terrorist hijacking of an airplane by adding a disclaimer to the beginning of the series. This may not mollify the critics, who are incensed that the Muslim terrorists responsible for the real-life incident were replaced with Hindus.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has opened a case against human traffickers luring Indians to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

The government of Nepal is requiring everyone who climbs Mount Everest to carry a tracking chip for safety and verification.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Nepal as part of a flying four-day visit and paused Monday to issue the latest in a long string of dire climate warnings, declaring there is no future on the planet for fossil fuel.

The profound shockwave emanated by a sudden and violent attack by Hamas terrorists against Israel over the weekend is reverberating across the world, leaving a tragic tapestry of loss, abduction, and injury that has affected numerous nations from six continents, each mourning and frantically searching for its citizens targeted in the “savage” onslaught.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the extension of temporary amnesty status for more than 300,000 foreign nationals living throughout the United States who would otherwise be illegal aliens.

A veteran who was nearly killed in Afghanistan serving in the British Army, became the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Everest.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers and was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.

Fishermen on the Gulf of Morrosquillo in Colombia have rescued several groups of Bangladeshi nationals, all apparently shipwrecked after their makeshift vessel en route north collapsed, Colombian media reported Wednesday.

A 52-year-old French humanitarian worker faces charges of sexually abusing 24 boys in several developing countries during his overseas work from 2013 to 2015.

A Norwegian mountain climber stationed at Mt. Everest’s south basecamp in Nepal has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, marking the first official case of the disease on the world’s tallest mountain, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Thursday.

At least 6,500 South Asian migrant workers died in Qatar from 2011-2020, the Guardian reported Tuesday, citing government data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Qatar.

Nepal banned three Indian climbers this year from mountaineering in the country for six years after they were found to have faked their summit of Mount Everest in 2016.

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday to protest Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s decision last week to dissolve the country’s parliament.

Nepal’s government will pay farmers a cash reward for catching desert locusts in a bid to alleviate the recent damage caused to harvests by the pests, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.

Chinese telecom giant Huawei and state-owned China Mobile are building two 5G stations to cover the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday.