Nepal's National Health Insurance Program (NHIP), started in 2016, set out to improve access to health care and protect ...

Nepal’s capital Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in the world. But it’s also one of the fastest growing markets ...

CIVICUS discusses the challenges facing Nepal’s Dalit community with Rup Sunar, chairperson of the Dignity Initiative, a Kathmandu-based research and advocacy organisation working to dismantle ...

Nepal is rapidly progressing towards urbanization. In the last 10 years, the population living in cities has increased at a rate of 10 percent. Experts say that urbanization is happening rapidly ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

As Nepal shifts to decentralised governance it is struggling to implement to fair fiscal management, leading to calls for the ...

For years, people across Nepal have complained of monkeys stealing food from their properties. Now, the government is holding its first-ever monkey census to understand exactly how bad the problem is.

Gurka Hell' unfolds.In the 3rd episode of MBC's representative entertainment show 'Taegye Ilju 4'('Taegye Ilju 4'), the world ...

In 2022, one in every eight people around the world was living with obesity? Obesity has become a growing global health concern, with adult rates more than doubling since 1990 and adolescent rates ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Obesity, especially severe obesity, is linked to increased risk for 16 common health conditions, including obstructive sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, and liver ...

America is struggling with an obesity problem, as nearly 42% of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Whether this is due to lack of healthy food ...

Fast forward three decades, and the country is starting to grapple with obesity. At the pace with which the proportion of overweight people is growing, half of Nepal’s adult population will be obese ...