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COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's cabinet approved issuing free tourist visas to visitors from 35 countries including China, India and Russia, a top official said on Thursday (Aug 22), in an effort to boost tourism and help revive its crisis-hit economy.
Tourists will be given 30-day visas under a six-month pilot programme that will start from October 1, said cabinet spokesman and Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardana.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreign citizens from Asia seeking refuge in the South American nation as a means to migrate to the United States and Canada, the justice ministry’s press office said Wednesday.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rallied in Nepal’s capital Tuesday during the annual Pride parade, the first since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation following a Supreme Court order in Nov 2023.
At the peak of the Kala Patthar landmark, 5,500 metres above sea level in eastern Nepal, Jacob Cresswell, a team leader working for the United Nations Stop TB programme, lifts several layers of clothing to place a freezing laptop against his bare stomach.
KATHMANDU — A helicopter crashed in a forest outside Nepal's capital Kathmandu shortly after takeoff on Wednesday (Aug 7), killing all five people on board, an official said, the latest of more than a dozen air crashes in the mountainous region since 2000.
A helicopter crashed in central Nepal on Wednesday, killing all five people aboard, including the pilot and four Chinese tourists.