Nepal's Balen Shah government is facing fresh protests from farmers, days after youth-led demonstrations, adding to growing ...

Nepal’s Sukumbasi (landless and squatters) question is commonly portrayed as a dispute over public land. In Kathmandu and a few other cities, it periodically emerges as the ille ...

The ADB report warns that rapid urbanization across the Hindu Kush Himalaya is increasing housing shortages and disaster ...

The Balen Shah government in Nepal is encountering protests against its eviction of squatters without a resettlement plan.

There is a borough in the UK where migrants appear to be leaving asylum hotels in rising numbers only to end up on the ...

Kathmandu, July 12 -- The government has proposed sweeping changes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) mobilisation by ...

Kathmandu, July 13 -- A heartbreaking video circulating on social media platforms since Saturday morning captured the agony ...

With search-and-rescue missions now concluded, Venezuela's earthquake-affected regions have entered a critical new phase of recovery.

A team lost five days to government red tape and political interference, missing a window to find earthquake survivors. | World News ...

In a meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today, lawmakers drew the government's attention to contemporary issues ...

This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE This story went to press before the earthquake struck Nepal on April 25. The kumaris in the Kathmandu Valley ...