Category Archive: Region | India and South Asia

What can tourists do to help, not hinder, Nepal’s quake recovery?

Wednesday 10th June 2015

Every year 800,000 international visitors travel to Nepal to experience its unique attractions. These include Sagarmatha National Park (Mt Everest),…

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Earthquake orphans: what Nepal can learn from Haiti

Wednesday 6th May 2015

Following the earthquake in 2010, Westerners flocked to Haiti to “rescue” orphaned and lost children. The “rescue” included the evacuation…

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Rajapaksa defeat signals the end of a dynasty in Sri Lanka

Saturday 10th January 2015

On Friday morning, with fewer than half the votes counted in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, incumbent president Mahinda Rajapaksa unobtrusively…

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