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Sri Lanka has become the cautionary tale when it comes to Belt and Road investment with China. Can Nepal avoid a similar fate?

The relationship between Nepal and the international development industry has long been difficult. But the work of Nepalese youth groups gives grounds for hope.

The recovery effort is now underway after a powerful earthquake hit Nepal. The challenge will be to rebuild a stronger nation.

Global coverage of the Nepal earthquake focused issues of preparedness and political instability but missed the systemic, historical inequities that made the disaster so devastating.

Nepal’s past dealing with multiple disasters, including the aftermath of its civil war and the massive earthquake of 2015 may have helped the country prepare for the current COVID-19 crisis.

Following the earthquake in 2010, people flocked to Haiti to “rescue” orphaned and lost children. The problem that has since emerged is that many of the “orphans” placed in orphanages and sent for adoption, were not orphaned at all.

Social media acted as both a magnifier and accelerator to protests, linking perceived injustice to on-the-ground activism.

The skin and bones of long-dead tigers from the days of the British Raj have helped reveal how the latest threat to the endangered species is their own DNA. Taking DNA samples from game hunters’ trophies…

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has hit Afghanistan, with the effects felt as far away as India.

A new study warns that while active smoking is rare among pregnant women in developing countries, their exposure to secondhand smoke is a major public health crisis.