3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1071+ words) Southeast Asia has long emerged as a major hub of highly organized online fraud operations, targeting people all around the world. According to the United Nations, these operations generate tens of billions of dollars annually, having long surpassed the illegal…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (285+ words) OSLO — Ukraine and Moldova on Wednesday played down claims from Norway’s prime minister that a plane carrying President Volodymyr Zelensky was almost hit by a drone as it flew to Oslo. Jonas Gahr Store told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1733+ words) KATHMANDU — Rakesh Mahato lies in a hospital bed in Kathmandu with a simple wish—to get up, take a few steps and make it home. The 25-year-old from Sarlahi district has spent the entirety of the past year in hospital…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (330+ words) KATHMANDU — The confirmed death toll from catastrophic flash floods in northern Nepal has risen to 1,355, with 4,996 people still unaccounted for, according to government data released on Monday. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said search and rescue…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1509+ words) KATHMANDU — Sixteen-year-old Samiksha Dangol was on her way home from school when she saw her father coming towards her. It was the morning of August 26 at Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot, a district north-west of Kathmandu. Samikshya, a Grade…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (208+ words) BEIJING — The death toll from a mudslide in eastern China rose to three on Sunday, after days of torrential rain brought by Typhoon Saudel. Nine others were still missing. The mudslide hit part of a village in Suichuan County in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1521+ words) KATHMANDU — Nima Dorje Tamang was in Hakubesi, a hamlet south of Syafrubesi in Rasuwa, when the flood struck. Before Tamang could prepare, he heard a thunderous roar and saw the flood gushing toward him, its waves taller than him. Tamang…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (889+ words) KATHMANDU — After days of dealing with bodies instead of patients, Bharatpur Hospital has returned to its regular medical services after authorities began temporarily burying unidentified flood victims and brought in additional forensic teams to ease the pressure on its overwhelmed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (679+ words) KATHMANDU — The Nepal government is adopting a multi-pronged strategy to engage with the international community following the deadly Bhotekoshi river flooding of August 26. On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called Prime Minister Balendra Shah and requested the Nepal government’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (657+ words) KATHMANDU — For four days, a couple in Nuwakot each believed that the other had been swept away by the flood. They were on opposite sides of the water, cut off, with no way to confirm the other was alive. A…...