Spanish Climber Abandons Winter Everest Summit Attempt
A Spanish climber Wednesday abandoned his attempt to make the first winter summit of Mount Everest in over two decades, ...
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Food Sovereignty Tackles Osei-Owusu On GMOs
Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) has said it “totally rejects the false impression” that the chairman of parliament’s Appointments Committee, Joseph ...
Hindu Ritual Forces Nepali Women Into Monthly Exile
The small thatched hut in western Nepal has no walls to keep out the cold. Inside is a raised platform ...
Qatar Population Booms On Back of 2022 World Cup
Qatar's population has swollen by almost 40 percent since the emirate was chosen to the host the 2022 World Cup, ...
Couple Jailed For Killing Spouses Wed In Nepal Prison
A man and a woman each serving time for killing their first spouses have married in a prison in western ...
Nepal To Hold First Local Elections In 20 Years
Nepal will hold its first local elections in two decades in May, the government has announced, a key moment in ...
The Man Who Turned the Lights On In Energy-Starved Nepal
The continuous whirl of hair dryers is a novel sound at the Blush Beauty Point parlour in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, ...
Top 10 Trends On the New York Catwalk
New York fashion week wrapped with designers unable to agree on the season, the future of the runway in jeopardy ...
Illegal Foreigners Risk Deportation After Swoop By Mauritius Authorities
About 40 illegal foreigners have been arrested in a police operation against illegal foreigners staying on the Indian Ocean Island ...
Ex-Gurkha Bids To Reclaim ‘oldest On Everest’ Title
An 85-year-old former Gurkha is making a bid to reclaim his title as the world's oldest person to summit Mount ...
Nepal Pays Tribute To 6 Million Victims of Holocaust
Nepal marked the International Day of the Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust on Friday along with the United ...
The Myanmar Monologue To the VAG
Ashanti: Come, let us talk of what is rarely spoken of: the War in Burma - now known as Myanmar ...
The Myanmar Monologue To the VAG
Ashanti: Come, let us talk of what is rarely spoken of: the War in Burma - now known as Myanmar ...
Nepali Girl Dies Due To Banned Menstruation Practice
A 15-year-old girl has died in Nepal's western Achram district after she was banished to a shed because she was ...
UN Mission In South Sudan ‘failed To Protect Civilians’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sacked the commander of a peacekeeping force in South Sudan following a damning report that ...
GHC24m To Be Used To Restructure School Feeding Programme
An amount of GHC24 million has been saved on every payment made per term since the NDC government took over ...
Dangote Shakes Ghacem; Stabilises Cement Price
The management of Dangote Cement Plc says the company is well positioned to become the leader of the cement industry ...
Countries Still Not Ready
The countries of the United Nations approved a remarkable commitment to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 to ...
Illegal Child Marriages Flourish In Nepal, Stealing Youths’ Futures
Kopila Wosti was just 14 when her father married her off to a stranger who was five years older. A ...