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A professional healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry an oxygen tank inside a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible Covid-19 patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP)

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen…

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The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it?

A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 81 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and spread around the world. Here are the places that…

‘Kung Fu’ nuns cycling for the environment

After facing the consequences of climate change first-hand in their own villages, the nuns decided to start marching with two strong messages

The queue to the top. (Image via Twitter: Nirmal Purja/@nimsdai)

Everest ‘traffic jam’ survivor calls for tougher rules

Mountaineering has become big business since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Everest in 1953

Many Himalayan mountains — including Everest — are at peak climbing season, with the window of good weather between late April and the end of May.

Sherpa climbs Everest twice in a week for record 24th

Nepali mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa has set a new world record by climbing Mount Everest for a 24th time

Only 30 people have ever reached the summit of Mount Gurja with the last successful ascent recorded in 1996, according to the Himalayan Database. (Strait Times/EPA)

Rescuers retrieve bodies of nine climbers on Nepal’s Mount Gurja

The accident is believed to have happened either late Thursday or Friday, but there are no surviving witnesses

Nepal still has four years to increase its tiger population under the WWF plan (Petr David Josek/AP Photo)

Nepal set to double tiger population under WWF global plan

Nepal’s efforts to increase its tigers are part of a 13-country plan to double the number of tigers worldwide

‘We all had to sit there in the streets. After such a big earthquake

Slice of Life: ‘I fought to get out that tiny door’

‘It was almost like a stampede; people were falling on the floor.’

Journalists in the Himalayan nation do still face intimidation and arrest

Nepal newspaper due in court for case slammed as press freedom attack

The newspaper was subpoenaed on contempt of court charges for articles which implied that the chief justice wanted to hold office for longer

Foreign spaza shop owners told the press last week they blamed recent violent looting in Soweto on allegations of fake food in the township. (David Harrison).

Now she’s a runner not a fighter

Former child soldier Mira Rai has become a star athlete who is blazing a trail for women in Nepal.

Seemingly unwanted in Mahikeng

Nepalis flee capital as aftershocks spread fear

Nepalis were fleeing Kathmandu as aftershocks rocked the area following an earthquake. The death toll in Nepal has risen to 4 310.

Rubble is cleared in Kathmandu’s Durbar Square on Saturday. A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of people as it ripped through large parts of Nepal.

Nepalese dig for quake survivors

The death toll continued to rise in Nepal on Sunday after an earthquake devastated the heavily populated Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal gives in to some Sherpa demands to avoid Everest boycott

Nepal has agreed to set up a relief fund for Sherpas who are killed or injured in climbing accidents after Mount Everest’s deadliest disaster to date.

Daughter of Mount Everest avalanche victim Ang Kazi Sherpa lights oil lamps at Sherpa Monastery in Kathmandu on April 20 2014.

Everest guides, climbers cancel expeditions after avalanche tragedy

After 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, Nepalese guides and climbers have cancelled Everest expeditions, with anger growing over sherpas’ poor pay.

Three more mountain guides are still missing following a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest.

Death toll from Mount Everest avalanche increases

At least 13 people have been killed in the deadliest accident on the world’s highest mountain.

Tiger population on the rise in Nepal

Tigers are more numerous in Nepal than at any time since the 1970s, a census has shown, giving conservationists hope that the big cats can be saved.

Dalai Lama high court bid a ‘slam dunk’ case

India, China clash over Dalai Lama speech

A row over a speech by the Dalai Lama has scuttled key talks between India and China as the two nations vie for power and influence in the region.

Nepal scientists scoop poop for tiger database

Scientists in Nepal are to build a DNA database of the endangered Bengal tiger by recording a unique genetic fingerprint from each adult’s faeces.

Everest tour plane crash

Everest tour plane crash, 19 dead

An aircraft taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest has crashed into a hillside near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.

Eight dead in powerful Indian quake

Eight dead in powerful Indian quake

A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked north eastern India on Sunday, killing as many as eight people including five who died in tremors in Nepal.