Sri Lanka has the lowest tax revenue collected through Value Added Tax (VAT) in South Asia while Maldives with a lower tax ...

Restaurateur Nwang “Anthony” Sherpa is opening HimalayaSoNo on Feb. 26. Photo courtesy of Nwang “Anthony” Sherpa SOUTH ...

Sushila Gautam, 77, checks her smartwatch, a gift from her son living in the United States, to see if she should leave for her reading and writing lessons. When Sushila was young, girls in her village ...

Thorsten Bruce hopes his 13,000km trip will prove life-changing not just for him but for a children's home in the Himalayas Former Hong Kong resident Thorsten Bruce fell in love with Nepal when he ...

The designer Prabal Gurung showed his fall 2025 collection at New York Fashion Week in Manhattan's Surrogate Court.

Duchess Sophie's Etro dress is a masterclass in how to wear florals in a contemporary way and she wore it on Day 2 of her ...

Before leaving, Sophie signed a visitor’s book, and souvenir booklet commemorating 125 years of Bhaktapur Hospital’s services ...

Image courtesy of Peter Ford. In some of the countries where clothing is made, biomass sources are a long existing, viable and low-impact coal replacement – the husks of rice left over from ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials ...

KATHMANDU, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time ...

Nepal has sharply increased Everest climbing permit fees and introduced a slew of measures aimed at controlling garbage pollution and preventing accidents on the planet’s tallest peak. Under the ...