The rudrakshas from Nepal are in high demand in India and China Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human ...

From left-right standing: Lakpa Tsering Sherpa (?), Ganesh Man Singh, Bal Chandra Sharma, Mahendra Narayan Nidhi Sitting: Matrika Prasad Koirala and Bishweswar Prasad Koirala Photo courtesy: CHETANA ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — In Nepal, the unseen eye has changed Tibetan life. The cameras are not just machines perched on the thick bundles of wires that twist through narrow lanes of Kathmandu in Nepal ...

As the morning sun peeked out over the horizon, the Buddhist monks in the monasteries of Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, were already chanting traditional mantras in their deep, solemn voices. These ...

While higher fees await Manaslu and Everest climbers this fall, the Nepal government is promoting the far-flung regions of western Nepal by waiving the royalty fees on 97 peaks, including several ...

This season the Nepalese government says it will require climbers and guides to get permission from its Department of Tourism before disseminating images of others on the mountain. Enforcing it won’t ...

Data gathered from camera trap surveys conducted across most of Nepal’s tiger habitats between 2017 and 2018 show that there are now 235 of the big cats who call the South Asian country home. That ...

Sonam Tashi refuses to let his son inherit the same fear. Once active in the Free Tibet movement in Kathmandu, he found himself silenced. Unable to secure identity papers for his son, he left for the ...

As India’s railway network expanded in the 1890s and 1900s, the demand for wooden railway sleepers, called ‘ties’ in America, likewise increased. The Rana regime realised that western Nepal’s dense ...