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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 8,848 metre mountain at about 9.00am local time, accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off a Nepal airport runway on Thursday and plunged into a river, police said. All 21 people aboard the Nepal Airlines Twin Otter aircraft were injured, five seriously, police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said. The plane’s brakes failed and it crashed into the Kali Gandaki river in the Annapurna mountain range in Nepal’s northwest, Adhikari said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ninety-one per cent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world’s most populous region. But its richest countries and wealthiest citizens likely have better water supplies and governments better prepared for natural disasters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Australia said it had offered Indonesia a formal guarantee that drug trafficker Schapelle Corby would comply with parole, in a letter supporting her release from prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepalese police arrested 18 people in Kathmandu on suspicion of “anti-China activities” yesterday, the 54th anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. All but three were released from custody within hours, police said. Nepal, home to around 20,000 Tibetans, is under intense pressure from Beijing over the exiles, and has repeatedly said it would not tolerate what it calls “anti-China activities”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepalese police arrested 11 people in Kathmandu on suspicion of “anti-China activities” on Sunday morning, the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against Beijing’s rule in Tibet. “Some of the people we arrested were Tibetan but we have not interrogated all of them yet,” police spokesman Uttam Subedi said. Nepal, home to about 20,000 Tibetans, is under intense pressure from Beijing over the exiles, and has repeatedly said it will not tolerate what it calls “anti-China activities”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The makers of a film depicting torture by Nepal’s army accused the government of censorship on Friday after they had to cancel the movie’s release because of delays in getting approvals. The film Badhshala, meaning “Slaughterhouse” in Nepalese, is based on the infamous saga of torture and disappearances carried out by a Kathmandu-based battalion during the country’s 1996-2006 civil war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepal’s quiet, barely known chief justice is on the verge of taking almost total control of the Himalayan nation, becoming the interim head of government as well as the top judge in a country that has been without a legislature for months. It seems to be the only thing the country’s furiously feuding politicians can agree on, even though one of them calls the move “flawed in every way.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ex-president arrested after ducking court MALE – Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed was arrested to face charges of abuse of power during his tenure, accusations that he claims are an attempt to keep him out of this year’s presidential election. Police said Nasheed was arrested at his home in the capital and would be produced in court today. They said Nasheed failed to appear for a hearing and evaded two arrest warrants. He is charged with illegally ordering the arrest of a senior judge, a move that led to his fall from power in February last year. AP <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By EDWARD WONG, on February 23rd, 2013 A project aimed at restoring the artwork of two sites in Lo Manthang, Nepal, has trained a team of local residents to revise historic works.
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By , on February 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepal’s prime minister has agreed to resign to make way for the chief justice to lead the politically deadlocked country into elections by June this year, the main opposition party said on Tuesday. Baburam Bhattarai will submit his resignation to the president after the nation’s four largest parties ended a protracted stalemate by agreeing to form a unity government headed by the country’s top judge, the Nepali Congress said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Tibetan man burned himself to death in protest against Chinese rule, reports and Western rights groups said on Thursday, bringing the total to have set themselves on fire to at least 101. US-based Radio Free Asia said the man, Lobsang Namgyal, who it described as a former monk from the Kirti monastery, self-immolated last week near a police station in Aba prefecture, a Tibetan area of Sichuan province in southern China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Tibetan monk doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire in a Kathmandu tourist area yesterday – the 100th self-immolation attempt in a wave of protests against Chinese rule since 2009. Police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said the exile burned himself at a restaurant near Kathmandu’s Boudhanath Stupa, one of the world’s holiest Buddhist shrines, terrifying tourists who were having breakfast. “At around 8.20am, a man in his early 20s arrived at a restaurant, went to the toilet and poured petrol over his body and set himself alight,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of wildlife experts carrying sophisticated cameras began combing the forests in Nepal’s southern plains on Tuesday in the Himalayan nation’s biggest campaign yet to count the number of endangered tigers roaming in its national parks. The survey is crucial for planning strategy to double the number of Royal Bengal tigers in Nepal by 2022, as pledged by the Nepali government. Nepal is currently home to 176 of the animals, which are threatened by poaching and habitat loss. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Party leaders said at their general convention they would step down from government to seek a popular mandate to lead a “socialist revolution”, six years after a decade-long insurgency that toppled the world’s last Hindu monarchy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The casino industry is booming across Asia, offering anyone looking for high-stakes action a wide choice of venues, from high-tech South Korea to the Himalayan nation of Nepal and communist Vietnam. Anyone, that is, except South Koreans, Nepalese or Vietnamese. For conservative Asian countries, the financial pros and social cons of casino gambling pose something of a dilemma – one that several have chosen to resolve by adopting a foreigner-only access policy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepalese police made a series of arrests on Friday after campaigners who have been staging a month-long anti-rape protest defied a ban on entering an area close to the prime minister’s residence. Police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said demonstrators had entered the restricted area in the upscale Baluwatar neighbourhood of Kathmandu, near the residence of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, after being warned not to do so. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russians reacted yesterday with amusement, disbelief and a heavy dose of irony to the news that the Kremlin has granted citizenship to French actor Gerard Depardieu to solve his tax woes. In a letter broadcast on Russian television, the actor declared his love for President Vladimir Putin and called Russia a “great democracy”. “He is impressed by our democracy – he has completely lost his marbles,” wrote Facebook user Vladimir Sokolov. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Japanese mountaineer, 80, overcomes four heart operations to scale Everest
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 8,848 metre mountain at about 9.00am local time, accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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