The first urban bird monitoring 2016 has recorded a total of 13,749 individual birds from rural to urban gradients of Kathmandu Valley. Bird...
Healthful food perceptions influenced by price
With 2017 just around the corner, many of us will soon be trawling grocery stores in the search for healthful foods to kick-start the New ...
China's Xi says won't let anyone make 'fuss' about its territory
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will never allow anyone to "make a great fuss" about its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights...
ISIS 'planning mass attack in Britain' and 'has "no moral barrier" to using chemical weapons'
Security minister Ben Wallace said the chemical threat was the potential realisation of "everybody's worst fear" ISIS is plann...
Can we blame delicious food for our holiday weight gain?
Access to delicious food encourages us to overeat and therefore gain weight, regardless of the food's caloric content - at least, that...
Pokhara Street Festival set to welcome New Year 2017
POKHARA - The 'Pokhara Street Festival' is being organized by the Restaurant and Bar Association of Nepal (REBAN) – Pokhara from D...
Novel Type of Immunotherapy Helps Man Fight Brain Cancer
Killer T cells surround a cancer cell. (NIH) A man with deadly brain cancer that had spread to his spine saw his tumors shrink and, ...
Myanmar farmers reap rewards from 3D printing
Social enterprise Proximity Designs's 3D printer is making high technology accessible to Myanmar's impoverished farmers Whizzing...
3D Printing Makes Better Tools for Myanmar Farmers
As Myanmar emerges from years of isolation under a military dictatorship, new technologies are entering the country that aim to improve t...
Teens Among 7 Killed in Philippines Drug House; Vigilantes Suspected
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte salutes with military officers during an anniversary celebration of the Armed Forces at a military c...
Bomb explodes at Philippines boxing match
At least 32 people were wounded when two bombs exploded at an amateur boxing competition in a central Philippine town as part of an annual R...
China completes high-speed rail links from southwest Yunnan
A high-speed railway train linking Shanghai and Kunming, of Yunnan province, is seen at a station during a partial operation, in Anshun, G...
Building from waste
Nine teenage girls create architecture out of discarded materials Dec 29, 2016- Pop-up School of Architecture, a week-long exhibi...
Replacing defunct IC notes: India to make ‘special arrangement’ for Nepal
Dec 29, 2016- With the deadline set by the Indian government to exchange old notes in the denominations of 500 and 1,000 expiring on Frid...
Kidney racket busted in Kathmandu, 3 held
Dec 29, 2016- Metropolitan Police Crime Division on Thursday arrested three individuals involved in organ-trafficking from Kathmandu Vall...
French woman pardoned after being jailed for murdering abusive husband
woman jailed for murdering the husband who abused her for 47 years has been given a rare pardon by the French president. Jacqueline S...
U.S. set to announce response to Russian election hacking: sources
Obama meets with Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration ...
Woman dies in 20-car pile-up on A40 as cold weather alert issued
A WOMAN HAS DIED FOLLOWING A PILE-UP INVOLVING AROUND 20 VEHICLES ON A MAJOR ROAD COVERED WITH FOG. The A40 has been closed in both direc...
Afghanistan: 43 percent rise in estimated opium harvest
Figures from government and UNODC show 10 percent increase in poppy cultivation and 91 percent decrease in eradication. Estimated opi...