Hundreds of gays, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters danced through the Nepalese capital in the country’s first international gay parade. The participants, dressed in colourful clothes, thronged the main streets of Kathmandu, led by...

Nepalese police have arrested more than 100 Tibetan exiles and Buddhist monks who were trying to storm an office of the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu. The protesters were beaten back from the fortified compound by police armed with bamboo batons. A...