May 26 Mount Everest was first scaled 70 years ago. Climbers celebrate the milestone as climate change concerns grow By Binaj Gurubacharya, Associated Press Nepal is celebrating 70 years since Mount Everest was successfully scaled for the first time. Thousands of people have set out to reach the peak, but the climbing conditions have changed. Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch 5:52 How a restaurant is helping diners think deeply about immigrant culture and food By Laura Barrón-López, Mike Fritz, Karina Cuevas A new restaurant in Boston traces the remarkable journey of immigrant food and celebrates the people who help bring it to our tables. Laura Barrón-López gives us a taste of Comfort Kitchen. Continue watching
Jan 24 1 dead, several injured after Nepal earthquake By Associated Press The 5.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Bajura district hit in the afternoon, sending people fleeing their houses. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch Human trafficking victims forced to sell their organs share harrowing stories By Zeba Warsi Each year, an estimated 35,000 Nepalis are sold into modern slavery. They are vulnerable in part because of their economic conditions, as of the 29 million people who live in Nepal, nearly half live in poverty. But the country is… Continue watching
Jan 17 In Nepal’s ‘Kidney Valley,’ poverty drives an illegal market for human organs By Zeba Warsi Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission told the NewsHour that at least 150 people sold their kidney from a single village in the Kavre District, but only three cases were officially reported. Continue reading
Jan 17 Families mourn victims of Nepal plane crash as police investigate deadly crash By Anish Bhattarai, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press Nepalese authorities are returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and are sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country's deadliest air accident in 30 years. Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch 4:32 News Wrap: Black boxes found at Nepal plane crash site In our news wrap Monday, search teams in Nepal retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the site of a plane crash that killed at least 69 people, President Biden marked this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by… Continue watching
Jan 16 Search crews in Nepal retrieve flight data from deadly plane crash By Anish Bhattarai, Krutika Pathi, Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press Investigators are looking for the cause of Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years. At least 69 of the 72 people aboard were killed, and officials believe the three missing are also dead. Continue reading
Jan 15 68 dead, 4 missing after plane crashes in gorge near Nepal resort town By Upendra Man Singh, Sheikh Saaliq, Anish Bhattarai, Associated Press A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. Continue reading
May 30 21 bodies found in Nepalese plane crash wreckage; search continues for missing person By Binaj Gurubacharya, Associated Press Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal have recovered the bodies of 21 of the 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed a day earlier. Continue reading