Parties unleash students to put pressure on the king.

A sharp rise in passenger demand is attracting foreign airlines.

Just arrived: prefabricated wooden houses.

Despite problems, Nepali women still throng to Hong Kong to work as domestics

On 15 January it will be 70 years since the great 1934 earthquake killed 4,500 people in Kathmandu Valley. The next big one is due any day now.

In this second installment of the testimony of veteran Gurkhas, 89-year-old Bharati Gurung (left) recalls fighting on behalf of the British in Iraq.