A packed bus on its way to Nepal's capital drove off a mountain highway early Monday, killing 19 people, including a British national, and leaving another 25 wounded.
A body found at the site of a factory fire in Eumseong County, North Chungcheong, has been identified as a missing worker from Nepal, according to police on Tuesday.
Spanish police on Thursday said they had broken up a criminal network linked to smuggling 300 workers into the country, mostly from Nepal. The workers were placed illegally on farms in central and eastern Spain.
A Nepali teenager who bonded with webtoon artist Kian84 on a TV travel reality show will receive support from international relief organization World Share.
A Korean trekker has died in the Himalayas in Nepal after climbing a popular trekking peak, according to news reports.
The death toll from last week's anticorruption protests in Nepal has risen to 72, the country's health ministry said on Sunday, as search teams continued to recover bodies from shopping malls and other buildings damaged in the unrest.
Nepalese authorities lifted the curfew in the country's capital and surrounding areas on Saturday as calm returned following the appointment of the Himalayan nation's first woman prime minister in the wake of protests this week.
Nepalese soldiers guarded the streets of the country's capital on Wednesday and ordered people to stay at home as they moved to restore order after tens of thousands of protesters stormed and set fire to government buildings and attacked politicians.
At least 19 people in two cities died on Monday in Nepal's worst unrest in decades, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger.
Nepal will waive climbing fees for nearly 100 peaks in the remote northwestern Himalayas for the next two years to try and lure more mountaineers to the less developed region bordering China, an official said on Monday.
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