In this Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014 photo, Kumar Budathoki, who sold one of his kidneys to organ traffickers, cries as he narrates his story in Hokse, a village of tiny farms and mud huts that has been the ...

Langtang, Nepal – On the morning of April 25, 2015, Nima Chhiring Tamang, 30, left his home in northern Nepal’s Langtang village to spend time with friends in the neighbouring village of Kyanjin Gompa ...

Sudip Thakali now plans to change the roof of his family house from mud to blended cement concrete (BCC) to avoid water ...

Residents avoided major casualties in the April 25 earthquake by attending the priestly ordination Mass of Jesuit Father Tek Raj Paudel, the village’s only Christian. Jesuit Father Tek Raj Paudel ...

Since its founding in 2007, Kopila Valley Children's Home has worked to ensure that children in Surkhet are safe, educated, and loved. Supported by BlinkNow Foundation and developed in close ...

(Reuters) - It was three foreign trekkers who used their satellite telephone to call the rescue helicopter that landed in Nepal's Langtang Valley around midday on Tuesday, April 28. Three days earlier ...

HOKSHE, Nepal - Under crushing financial strain, Kumar Budathoki sold one of his kidneys to organ traffickers for $5,000, a sum he hoped would help set him up for a lifetime free of money problems.

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NEW YORK — Indra Tamang was a teenage farmer in a Nepalese village without running water or electricity. He barely learned how to write and lived in a straw, mud and stone house with his parents ...

Reporting from Syadul, Nepal — In many ways, Sanjay Silwal is a fortunate man. The 300 people of his mountaintop village — including his parents, wife, infant son and 6-year-old daughter — escaped ...

Thinley Lhondup Lama, a village elder and sometime actor from Nepal who visited Hartford this year to thank students for bringing electricity to remote Himalayan areas, reportedly died Sunday while ...

Two years after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 people and causing extensive damages to property, residents are still reeling from the tragedy — especially in remote ...