Word: nepal
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...more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says an American who watched the scene through binoculars. "The reality is that they were taking direct aim at people trying to cross the pass." As the mountaineers looked on, the guards allegedly shot dead one Tibetan?later identified...
...provide a night of really amazing comedy for Harvard students and we can make a serious effort to raise both money and awareness.” Proceeds from the event will go to Deep Roots, a charity that offers scholarships to underprivileged youths, especially women, in Guatemala, Namibia, Nepal, and Zambia. “We at Harvard take for granted every now and then that we do have an education, a fantastic education,” said HCC Production Chair Samantha H. Fink ’07. “There are people across the world who never get basic...
...waste from its slopes, including more than 400 discarded oxygen containers. Local Nepalese villagers didn't see the point of the project at first, but eventually joined in enthusiastically, realizing that their success could provide a potent example in their polluted country. "They said, 'We want to change Nepal from Mount Everest,'" Noguchi recalls...
...planned to launch an environment-themed Tibetan-language newspaper?only to have the authorities reject his approval requests. "If I didn't have support from the government, I knew I couldn't make a difference," he says. "So I had to leave." Tsering Dorje crossed Tibet's border with Nepal and eventually made his way to Dharamsala, the first stop for many Tibetan refugees...
...spread to at least three African countries that had made great strides against polio - Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, he says, the Uttar Pradesh strain of the polio virus has leapt out of India and reinfected two polio-free neighboring countries: Bangladesh and Nepal. "This shows that the continuation of polio in one country is a threat to all the world," he says...