Philippine ferry fire kills five, 87 missing: coast guard
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Landslides in eastern China kill 13
9 September 2026
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N Korea calls Russia bridge a sign of tighter ties
9 September 2026
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Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight
5 September 2026
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Nepal flood losses estimated at $2.56 billion
4 September 2026
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Two trapped tunnel workers rescued 9 days after floods hit Nepal
4 September 2026
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Last-minute flood warning saved over 900 Nepal students, school head says
1 September 2026
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Nepal PM demands climate action after Himalayan disaster
1 September 2026
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Nepal-China floods: Rescuers race to reach 933 believed trapped in tunnels
1 September 2026
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Nepal teams seek hundreds trapped in hydropower tunnels after deadly floods
31 August 2026
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Mass arrests as activists defy emergency
Maldivian authorities arrested more than 140 activists who defied a ban on rallies and demonstrated against a state
17 March 2018
Xi gets second term
China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term yesterday and elevated his
17 March 2018
US-Bangla plane crash: List of bodies identified
A total of 25 victims, including 14 Bangladeshis, who died in the US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash in Kathmandu of Nepal are identified.
17 March 2018
Experts from Bangladesh, Nepal, Canada to decide where black box will be decoded
A joint-team of experts will decide the place where the black box of the crashed US-Bangla aircraft will be decoded, the chief of Nepalese investigation team says.
17 March 2018
US-Bangla plane crash: Nepal endorses condolence motion
Four days after the US-Bangla aircraft crash, the House of Representatives in Nepal endorses a condolence motion in remembrance of the deceased.
17 March 2018
With Rohingya gone, Myanmar's ethnic Rakhine seek Muslim-free 'buffer zone'
Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a "model" village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Rohingya Muslims.
16 March 2018
US-Bangla plane crash: 3 survivors return, 3 more might return Sunday
Three Bangladeshi survivors of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash have returned home, leaving behind the languished land of Nepal that snapped their life with pain of loss and trauma. And, one of them does not even know that her child and husband have left the land of the living.
16 March 2018
US-Bangla plane crash: Families may miss out on fair compensation
Families of the victims of US-Bangla Airline Flight 211, which crashed while trying to land at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday, are unlikely to receive a reasonable amount of compensation due to delays by Nepal and Bangladesh in signing the Montreal Convention 1999.
16 March 2018
'Once hard ice melts'
China's President Xi Jinping offered encouragement for South Korea's initiative to nurture peaceful engagement with North Korea, and
15 March 2018
Australia eyes visas for SA white farmers
Australia's conservative government is considering fast-tracking visas for white South African farmers so they can flee their "horrific
15 March 2018
Suicide bombing kills 9 in Pakistan's Lahore: Officials
At least nine people are killed and 20 wounded late Wednesday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a police check-post in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, officials say.
15 March 2018
Doctors to conduct toxicology tests on crew members
Doctors are conducting toxicology tests on crew members of US-Bangla Airlines aircraft that crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday.
15 March 2018
Govt declares mourning day tomorrow
The government declares to observe mourning day on Thursday following the casualties in the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal.
14 March 2018
US-Bangla plane crash: What caused it?
Fifty-one people die when a US-Bangla Airlines plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on “abnormal” landing at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). Does faulty communication or technical malfunction cause the crash of Flight Bangla Star 211 at Kathmandu’s TIA?
14 March 2018
US-Bangla aircraft crash: 4 injured victims ‘out of danger’, another released
Four injured persons, who were rescued and later admitted to the Dhapasi-based Grande International Hospital following the US-Bangla aircraft crash, are said to be out of danger.
13 March 2018
US-Bangla plane crash death toll now 51
Two more injured passengers of Monday’s US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu succumb to injuries, taking the death toll to 51.
13 March 2018
Bodies of US-Bangla crash victims taken to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for autopsy
Bodies of all 49 passengers who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash are taken to the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu.
13 March 2018
Chinese media hits back at questions
Chinese state media yesterday attacked critics of ending presidential term limits, which effectively now allows President Xi Jinping to stay
12 March 2018
No response yet from North
North Korea's silence on its upcoming summits with the United States and South Korea is probably due to caution over organising its
12 March 2018
Last min conversation between ACT controllers and US-Bangla pilot
Here is the last-minute conversation between Kathmandu Airport Traffic Controllers and the Pilot of US-Bangla aircraft just few minutes before the aircraft crashes in Kathmandu of Nepal
12 March 2018