KATHMANDU -- Until the 1950s, Nepal's Kathmandu Valley was a place many had heard of but few had seen. That enigmatic image has changed radically over the decades, but many precious aspects of ...

Risking geopolitics and restraining unwise development is the first step. We lost the regal trails of circuit Annapurna and wiped the virgin trails of Mustang in the name of development Stricken by ...

Kathmandu, Dec. 13 -- Do you know that dance bars and restaurants flourished in Kathmandu during the country's most turbulent political periods? The late Panchayat years, the 1990 People's Movement, ...

In late December 2021, social and mainstream media in Nepal was abuzz with news of the discovery of a stone slab in Patan Darbar Square area that contained ancient inscriptions. Labourers working on ...

High on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, the golden-spired Swayambhu shrine has drawn Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims for at least 1400 years. Now it is drawing conservators racing to fix ominous fissures in ...