A Hindu pilgrim stood anxiously next to a bus stand in Mustang, Nepal. “I’m going to burn my passport,” he told me. “I’m going to destroy all my documents and cross the border. I came ...

As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...

Scientists have for the first time in 185 years confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal, thrilling ...

Bhutan’s king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, is in India this week. He went to the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj on Tuesday and ...

Nepal’s government faced major challenges conserving the fertile flood plains of the country’s south. The region is the ...

Members of Nepal’s indigenous Tamang community gathered in Kathmandu on Thursday to celebrate Sonam Lhosar, their traditional ...

“Bamboo is a misunderstood plant in our culture because it is used for funeral rites and has a negative connotation,” says ...

Britain's rapid deployment troops are "ready" to board and seize Russian ships off the coast if there is evidence they are damaging undersea pipelines and cables. The prospect, described as a ...

LONDON—For around a decade, the Russian spy ship Yantar has crossed the globe and loitered over undersea cables in what Western officials suspect is an attempt by the Kremlin to map vital ...

It was believed Yantar was loitering over undersea cables. For the second time in just weeks, an alleged Russian spy ship has entered UK waters, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials ...