U.S. tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price as thousands of CCTV cameras from China monitor their every move.

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in ...

Security cameras blanket Nepal, where Tibetan refugees feel under threat. (AP video Serginho Roosblad) ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kumari, a young girl who is revered by both Hindus and Buddhists in Nepal as a living goddess, left her temple palace and was driven around the center of the capital in a ...

India announced recently that it was ‘close to victory in its fight against poverty’, with only 2.2% of its population living below the World Bank-defined extreme poverty line. Ten years ago, it was ...

Deepa Devkota from Sindhuli District has become the first Nepali woman living with a disability to complete a wheelchair ...

UNHCR and its partners are laying the groundwork for the large-scale resettlement of refugees from Bhutan living in Nepal's camps by kicking off a mass information campaign to help them make an ...

Figures tell one story, the reality is something different. Nepal’s macroeconomic indicators are rosy: foreign exchange reserves can sustain 1 year and 3 months of imports, remittances are up, and ...

A 2-year-old child has been appointed Nepal’s next living Goddess Kumari, following an ancient selection process. The little girl, Aaryatara Shakya, had to sit through an age-old ritual where she ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A 2-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country's longest and ...

PATAN, Nepal (Reuters Life!) - Even a "living goddess" is sometimes faced with tough decisions. Chanira Bajracharya, 15, has been the Kumari or "living goddess" of Patan, an ancient town south of ...