By AFP and published by CNA NUWAKOT: Rescue teams rushed on Thursday (Aug. 27) to find more than 1,300 people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 165 and swept away entire villages. A terrifying clip of surveillance video from the Chinese side of the frontier shows
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Sri Lankan workers coming to replace Cambodians who have returned home
WITH hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers having returned home following the five-day clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border and ongoing tensions between the two countries, the Thai government is now bringing in Sri Lankan workers to replace them, Amarin TV said this evening (Aug. 19). Labour Minister Pongkawin Juangroongruangkit said the cabinet has
Read moreAt least 40 killed in Nepal’s worst air crash in 30 years
By Reuters and published by The Business Standard Kathmandu – At least 40 people were killed on Sunday (Jan. 15) when an aircraft of domestic carrier Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said. “Rescue operations are on,” said Jagannath Niroula, spokesman for Nepal civil aviation authority. “Weather was
Read moreSerpent’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj leaves Nepali jail
By AFP and published by CNA Kathmandu, Nepal – French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on Friday (Dec. 23) after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali jail. Sobhraj, 78, whose life was chronicled in the successful series The Serpent, was
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