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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, a doctor from Stanford University trains an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal is woefully short of ambulances and trained emergency medical technicians who can man them.Now a group of doctors from Stanford University are training four dozen EMTs in the hope that they can gradually transform the Himalayan nations emergency services. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Stanford doctors train EMTs in a country with few paramedics

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Job Heintz, of the Himalayan Cataract Project, stands beside a photo of one of the organization's patients, Thursday Feb. 16, 2017, in Waterbury, Vt. The Vermont-based nonprofit group that works to cure blindness in Nepal and other countries in the developing world is one of eight semi-finalists for a $100 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

Non-profit seeking to cure blindness up for $100M grant

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

Nepalese family adjusting to life in rural Clark area

By ILENE OLSON - Associated Press

In this Nov. 22, 2016 photo, a Nepalese policeman rests in front of Changu Narayan, a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu, at Changu Village, 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) east of Kathmandu, Nepal. Less than two years after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake damaged the 5th century temple, the community is cleaning up their World Heritage site themselves and British architect John Sanday, who led the World Monuments Fund restoration of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, has taken on the recovery as his pet project. Changu Narayan is believed to be the oldest Hindu place of worship in the country, its wooden walls intricately carved with hundreds of deities, perched atop a steep hill overlooking the Kathmandu Valley. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Inspired by Nepalese, UK architect rebuilds ancient temple

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

In this Nov. 22, 2016 photo, the coffin carrying the body of Balkisun Mandal Khatwe, a migrant laborer who died in his sleep in Qatar, lies outside Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. But now medical researchers say these deaths fit a familiar pattern: Every decade or so, dozens, or even hundreds, of seemingly healthy Asian men working abroad in poor conditions start dying in their sleep. The suspected killer even has a name: Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

At rising rate, Nepalis working abroad go home in coffins

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 photo, Nepali workers stand in queues at the departure gate for migrant workers at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. About 10 percent of Nepal's 28 million residents are working abroad. They send back more than $6 billion a year, amounting to about 30 percent of the country's annual revenues. Only Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are more dependent on foreign earnings. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

At rising rate, Nepalis working abroad go home in coffins

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

UN wants $200 million to compensate Haiti cholera victims

By MICHAEL ASTOR - Associated Press

A couple from Britain hold their baby, born on Oct. 17 by a surrogate, in Anand, India. The couple came to Akanksha Clinic, one of the most organized clinics in the surrogacy business in India, after being unable to bear a child for 15 years. (Associated Press)

U.S. warms to surrogacy as ‘womb-for-rent’ scandals prompt crackdowns in Asia

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Buddhist monks perform before the Prabal Gurung Spring 2016 collection is modeled during Fashion Week Sunday Sept. 13, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

Prabal Gurung brings Buddhist monks to his fashion runway

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 3, 2014, Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua, a 21-year-old food vendor, poses with Gammy, a 9-month old baby boy who was born with a Down syndrome at a hospital in Sri Racha, Chonburi province, southeastern Thailand. The case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their son with his Thai surrogate mother after discovering the child had Down syndrome, and taking home his healthy twin, has cast unfavorable light on the largely unregulated business of commercial surrogacy. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

High price tags and ugly secrets — how the pregnancy surrogacy industry preys on poor women

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Tourist photographs a damaged building near Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 15, 2015. Nepal on Monday reopened most of the cultural heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of devastating earthquakes, hoping to lure back foreign tourists. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Quake-hit Nepal reopens damaged heritage sites for tourists

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Nepalese students wait for their school bus in front of a collapsed house as thousands of schools across the districts worst hit by two major earthquakes in Nepal reopened Sunday, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 31, 2015. With most school buildings damaged or unsafe, the Education Ministry ordered that classes be held in temporary classrooms. According to a UNICEF statement, 32,000 classrooms were destroyed and 15,352 classrooms were damaged after the two major earthquakes in Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) ** FILE **

21 dead, dozens missing as landslide buries Nepal villages

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Nepalese army men search for the missing U.S. Marine helicopter in the earthquake affected Dolakha District, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. The helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers disappeared Tuesday while delivering aid in the country's northeast, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

EDITORIAL: Dustin Lukasiewicz’s sacrifice in Nepal

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A Nepalese army soldier clears rubble from a damaged house at Lele in Lalitpur, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. On April 25, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake killed thousands of people, injured tens of thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Then, just as the country was beginning to rebuild, a magnitude-7.3 earthquake battered it again. (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)

Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed U.S. Marine chopper

By Binaj Gurubacharya and Nirmala George - Associated Press

6 Marines presumed dead in Nepal chopper crash

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A U.S. Osprey flies back to Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. A search continued Thursday for a U.S. Marine helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers. It disappeared Tuesday while delivering aid in the country's northeast. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)

Search continues for 6 missing Marines in Nepal

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A Nepalese woman carrying belongings walks past a damaged house in Chautara, Nepal, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The condition of many of the buildings damaged in the April 25 earthquake, got worse after the magnitude-7.3 quake Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)

Nepal officials tell people to evacuate damaged buildings

By Bernat Armangue - Associated Press