A climber from Bangladesh and one from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world's highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said yesterday. "Both...
- Fri
- May 24, 2013
- Updated: 9:26pm
Trending topics
14 May 2013
Tibetans don't want their exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to return to his homeland, a senior Chinese official has told visiting Nepalese and Indian journalists.
3:04PM
8 comments
31 Mar 2013
Neville Sarony is well-known in Hong Kong legal circles as a silk specialising in medical negligence, personal injuries and crime, but he is probably more convincing with facts than fiction.
5:30PM
28 Mar 2013
Playing at home and in front of thousands of their fans, Nepal were always considered a huge threat but Hong Kong brushed aside the hosts with minimum fuss to record their second successive six-...
4:16AM
18 Mar 2013
Run by Maoist revolutionaries and plagued by poverty, Nepal is not an obvious place to make big bucks. But Binod Chaudhary, its first billionaire, sees no reason why his breakthrough shouldn't...
3:58AM
14 Mar 2013
Nepal’s chief judge became head of an interim government on Thursday that is charged with holding elections in three months to replace the parliament whose term expired almost a year ago.
3:00PM
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.
5:21AM
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...
5:21AM
China's ambassador to Kathmandu was recently pictured in a traditional Nepali cap and silk scarf, digging with a spade to symbolise the laying of the foundations of a new dry port near the Tibet...
5:42AM
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.
6:25PM
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.
3:28PM
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...
5:31PM
4:16AM
11:19AM
4:18AM
4:16AM
In Case You Missed It
Login
SCMP.com Account
or
Log in using a partner site
Log in using your Facebook account. What's this?
Don't have an SCMP.com account? Subscribe Now!