While conducting research, we both became aficionados of the local intoxicants chang and arak, and we were taught how to brew and distill them by Nubri resident and research collaborator Jhangchuk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Langtang, Nepal – On the morning of April 25, 2015, Nima Chhiring Tamang, 30, left his home in northern Nepal’s Langtang village ...

Residents avoided major casualties in the April 25 earthquake by attending the priestly ordination Mass of Jesuit Father Tek Raj Paudel, the village’s only Christian. Jesuit Father Tek Raj Paudel ...

China has occupied a village of Nepal and allegedly removed the boundary pillars to legitimise its annexation, top government sources said on Tuesday. It has also been learnt that China has gradually ...

Reporting from Syadul, Nepal — In many ways, Sanjay Silwal is a fortunate man. The 300 people of his mountaintop village — including his parents, wife, infant son and 6-year-old daughter — escaped ...

The village of Langtang is gone, wiped of the face of the Earth by the first of the recent devastating Nepalese earthquakes. The small village - shown in the BEFORE image - was located on a popular ...

Thinley Lhondup Lama, a village elder and sometime actor from Nepal who visited Hartford this year to thank students for bringing electricity to remote Himalayan areas, reportedly died Sunday while ...

Til, the remotest of three villages in the Limi valley on the Tibetan border, was already wrestling with a dwindling population but a series of natural disasters has led many to consider where their ...

Olga Murray of Sausalito had been volunteering for five years in Nepal, helping abandoned and disabled children get an education, when she read something in the newspaper that she couldn't believe. In ...

Two years after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 people and causing extensive damages to property, residents are still reeling from the tragedy — especially in remote ...