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  • Steven Craig is new UNHCR representative for Nepal

    Steven Craig is new UNHCR representative for Nepal The newly-appointed UNHCR Representative in Nepal Steven Craig Sanders, presented his Letter of Credence to Minister for Foreign Affairs Madhav Prasad Ghimire on Wednesday. Sanders, an American national, has worked with the UN Refugee Agency since 1992 in a number of countries including Bangladesh, Sudan, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of ...

  • 2 Chinese died climbing summits in Nepal

    /enpproperty--> KATHMANDU - Thirty climbers from China, 24 male and 6 female have been registered to scale various summits this spring but two of them have already died, officials said on Wednesday. Li Xiaoshi, 58, from Taiwan, died while attempting the 8,516-meter-tall Lhotse Mountain. ...

  • Indian woman becomes first female amputee to climb Mount Everest

    Arunima Sinha, 26, from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, reached the peak on Tuesday morning after a slow climb from Everest Base ...

  • Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber

    In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo distributed by Miura Dolphins, 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, and his son, Gota, rest on their way to a camp at 6,500 meters (21,325 feet) from a camp at 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest. According to his management office, Miura plans to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on ...

  • Nepal living goddess a local oddity

    "It sounds far more complicated than choosing a new Pope," says a visitor from Australia as our guide outlines elaborate, fascinating and strictly observed rituals preceding the appointment of Kathmandu's "living goddess".A sweet-natured young girl is usually selected to become a goddess, a child whose tantrums are rare and who can be counted on to smile demurely at ...

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The Invasion

The Invasion

The Invasion is the fourth cinematic incarnation of Jack Finney's 1954 novella The Body Snatchers, and its tortured production history (bad test screenings, sitting on the shelf for a year, secret reshoots by The Wachowski Brothers to punch up the action) is unfortunately muc ... ...

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  • Nepali-Canadian 1st double amputee on Everest

    A Nepali-Canadian has become the first double amputee to climb the world's highest mountain.According to Khim Lal Gautam, liaison officer at Nepal's Tourism Ministry, Sudarshan Gautam, the Nepali-Canadian, reached atop Mt Everest at 9:00 am on Monday. Gautam, 30, lost both his hands at the age of 14 in an accident. He was on a mission to spread the message that "disability is not ...

  • Construction works on Tunnel Highway to start within month

    Construction works on Tunnel Highway to start within month Construction works on the Hetauda-Kulekhani-Kathmandu tunnel highway would be started within a month, state-owned news agency RSS reports. Chairman of Federation of Contractors´ Associations of Nepal (FCAN) and manager of the tunnel highway construction, Jayram Lamichhane, said that they would start the construction process ...

  • China-trained medical doctors doing fine in Nepal

    Bhavuk Sharma Bajagain, 30, a medical doctor by profession, is often busy with his patients in the emergency ward of Kathmandu Model Hospital, one of the more reputable hospitals .In the morning, Bajagain also teaches and shares his medical experience with students in two different local medical institutions."I am very happy and satisfied when I see my patients relieved of pain after ...

  • Female Saudi Everest climber happy to change views

    Raha Moharrak, the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale the world's highest peak Mount Everest, talks to the media at Yak and Yeti Hotel in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. According to mountaineering officials, Moharrak was among 64 climbers who successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain. May is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of more ...

  • Nepal slams climbers illegal call from Mount Everest- Montana hiker dies in Yosemite rock climbing accident

    May 19, 2010: Clouds hover above the world's highest peak Mount Everest, as seen from Syangboche, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Katmandu, ...

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