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China tightens rules on selling unfinished homes to lift sector
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Chinese officials tightened the rules for selling unfinished homes on Friday as they try to lift the country's property market out of a years-long slump that ha...
Missing soar over 2,400 after deadly Nepal, China floods
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The number of people missing in Nepal and China leaped to more than 2,400 Friday, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water...
Pilgrims seeking peace caught in deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
They came to the Himalayas seeking spiritual renewal, drawn by Tibet's sacred, snow-capped Mount Kailash.
China halts rescue at Tibet disaster epicentre over flood risk
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
China paused a rescue operation on Friday citing the high risk of renewed flooding in Tibet, where hundreds remain missing two days after a deadly mudslide, sta...
New flood risks impede Nepal, Tibet rescue
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Rescuers ploughed on with their search Friday for survivors of deadly floods and landslides that struck Nepal and Tibet, with the threat of new torrents complic...
Chinese rescuers reach main site of deadly Tibet mudslide
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Chinese rescuers faced treacherous conditions on Friday as they reached the main area wiped out by a deadly mudslide at the Tibet-Nepal border to search for hun...
Nepal-China floods disaster: Latest developments
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
More than 1,400 people are missing and at least 552 have been killed after a devastating, tsunami-like wall of water gouged a path through the border region bet...
Pilgrims seeking peace caught in deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
They came to the Himalayas seeking spiritual renewal, drawn by Tibet's sacred, snow-capped Mount Kailash.
The missing in Nepal-Tibet flash floods
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
More than 2,400 people were still missing Friday missing and 584 were confirmed dead after flash floods and landslides hit the Nepal-Tibet border.
In Zambia, a Shaolin Temple offers a softer face of China
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
From a distance, the Shaolin Temple outside Lusaka appeared almost like a mirage, a slice of central China dropped into the Zambian landscape.
'Heated exchanges' for Japan MPs on fence-mending China trip
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
A group of Japanese lawmakers seeking to patch up ties with China in Beijing looked to have made little headway this week, with one member saying there were "ma...
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activist says won't be silenced in prison
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung, an organiser of annual vigils marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, told a court on Friday she would continue speaking ...
Nepal says dam burst in Tibet, warns rescuers to head to safety: police
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Nepal issued a warning on Friday to move to higher ground after a dam upstream in Tibet was reported to have burst, two days after a glacial collapse caused dea...
Nepal seeks foreign aid but says its rescue teams coping
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Nepal appealed Friday for international financial assistance after devastating floods near its border with Tibet, but said it was coping without foreign rescue ...
Does the Nepal glacier collapse signal a new climate risk?
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Does the devastating flooding unleashed by the collapse of a section of glacier in the Nepalese Himalayas signal a new kind of risk in a world warmed by climate...
China halts rescue at Tibet disaster epicentre over flood risk
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
China paused a rescue operation on Friday citing the high risk of renewed flooding in Tibet, where hundreds remain missing two days after a deadly mudslide, sta...
Nepal-China floods disaster: Latest developments
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
More than 1,400 people are missing and at least 552 have been killed after a devastating, tsunami-like wall of water gouged a path through the border region bet...
Nepal flood death toll rises to 547: police
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border region this week have killed at least 547 people, Nepal's police said Friday.
Nepal army works to rescue 100 trapped in hydropower tunnel
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Nepali army teams searched on Friday for more than 100 people trapped inside a hydropower tunnel two days after devastating floods struck the site, as India off...
Nepal floods trauma 'enormous': Red Cross
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster has left an "enormous" level of trauma, the Red Cross said Friday, with early estimates suggesting 93,000 people may have been af...
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