Arnold Dix, an Australian engineer and geologist who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, says finding two workers alive in Trishuli 3A ‘gives us hope’There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the...

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When a catastrophic flash flood swept through the rugged China-Nepal border on August 26, the physical devastation was immediate. In Nepal, a black torrent of mud and rock tore through communities, leaving hundreds dead and thousands more missing along the borderlands. But across the frontier in Tibet, an autonomous region of China, the physical disaster was almost instantly followed by a digital one: the rapid, high-tech erasure of the catastrophe's visual evidence.

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Two people have been rescued more than a week after more than 1,300 people were killed in flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Following devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, Access Asia takes a closer look at the fragile state of the Himalayan mountains. Dr Arun Bhakta Shrestha, an expert on the environment and risk management in the Himalayas, explains why it's so...

Nepal's emergency crews have pulled two workers out of a hydropower tunnel where they had been trapped for nine days. The rescue comes more than a week after flash flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border killed more than 1,200 people....

Chinese state media’s handling of the Tibet floods is following its usual pattern of restricted coverage, censorship, and emphasizing positive news.

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Cross-border disasters along China’s frontiers are putting Beijing’s neighbourhood diplomacy to the test as climate shocks grow and expose strategic vulnerabilities. The stakes were highlighted last week after a sudden glacial collapse in the Himalayas unleashed a torrent of...

The glacier collapse that led to devastating flash floods across the Himalayan region of Nepal and its border with the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet on August 26 was preceded by early warning signs, experts say. But monitoring and...

Officials said the workers were safely rescued from tunnels that were at a depth of 170 metresTwo people have been pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly flash floods left them trapped.The workers...

Relatives try to piece together information found online and from Nepal as Tibet advocates groups say information is suppressed in ChinaFan Hong last heard from her husband on the morning of the Nepal-Tibet disaster. More than a week later,...

Prof Richard Bassed helped identify Boxing Day tsunami and victims of Australia’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires. ‘The randomness of this massive flood,’ he says. ‘That gets to you’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe bodies...

1,000 casualties on the Nepalese side of the border, less than 20 on the Tibetan one, said the CCP. If you dispute the figure, you go to jail. The post Tibet: The Mudslide Buried Homes, the Communist Party Buried...

An insider said authorities detected danger minutes before the disaster but failed to raise the alert or order an evacuation.

South Asian correspondent Azadeh Moshiri is at the site of a tunnel where rescuers still hope to find survivors following the Nepal-Tibet floods.

As of earlier this week, 30 Canadians were still missing after devastating floods

A Hong Kong Nepalese man is searching for his cousin who is missing after the catastrophic flood struck the Himalayan border between Nepal and Tibet. Y.B. Gurung, a 64-year-old retiree, told the South China Morning Post that he last...

The flash floods, triggered by an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal, leaving a trail of destruction.

Khalte’s residents survived one disaster – but were left vulnerable to the next.

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Security guards at the Chinese Embassy in London appeared to threaten protesters outside of their premises with electroshock weapons. A video obtained by The i Paper and published last week shows security guards, standing behind a gate, waving the...