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Nepal’s young protesters find an unlikely partner: the army
New York Times, Published on 11/09/2025
» KATHMANDU — When protesters in Nepal torched parliament, the Supreme Court and the homes of five former prime ministers on Tuesday, no one seemed to be in charge of a country in anarchy. Then, that night, Gen Ashok Raj Sigdel, the chief of the Nepali army, appeared in a short video, urging calm in the streets.
More than 60 are missing in Nepal after landslide sweeps buses into river
New York Times, Published on 13/07/2024
» KATHMANDU — More than 60 people are missing after a landslide swept two moving passenger buses into a river swollen by monsoon rains in central Nepal in the early hours of Friday, officials said.
South Korea needs foreign workers, but often fails to protect them
New York Times, Published on 02/03/2024
» POCHEON, South Korea — Samsung phones. Hyundai cars. LG televisions. South Korean exports are available in virtually every corner of the world. But the nation is more dependent than ever before on an import to keep its factories and farms humming: foreign labour.
Earthquake in western Nepal kills more than 120
New York Times, Published on 04/11/2023
» KATHMANDU — At least 128 people were killed and hundreds injured when a magnitude-6.4 earthquake shook northwestern Nepal late Friday, government officials said.
Dangerous virus mutes China’s ‘happiest day’
New York Times, Published on 25/01/2020
» WUHAN, China: The Lunar New Year festivities were just hours away, but instead of helping to prepare a joyous family banquet, Chen Yanming stood anxiously outside a hospital where her father was being tested for a dangerous new virus.
Art dealer charged in $145m antiquities smuggling case
New York Times, Published on 11/07/2019
» NEW YORK: In a sweeping new criminal case, a former New York art dealer authorities describe as one of the world’s largest smugglers of antiquities has been charged with running a multinational ring that trafficked in thousands of stolen objects, valued at more than US$145 million, over 30 years.