Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the independent New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research and fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, is the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground," which won the Bernard Schwartz Book Award.

A massive landslide struck a mountainous area in central Nepal on Aug. 26, and as of the 27th, authorities reported at least 359 people dead and 910 missing. A large flash flood occurred in a valley near the border with China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The Bhotekoshi River, which runs through the Rasuwa district in central Nepal, overflowed, and the resulting landslide swept away villages, roads, bridges and a hydropower plant. Local residents, along with many foreign tourists -- including pilgrims traveling to Tibet -- were caught in the disaster. According to Nepalese authorities, citizens of India, the U.S., Australia and other countries are among those affected.

KATHMANDU -- Nepal's government has forced a major Tibetan studies conference out of Kathmandu after China objected to the gathering, prompting accusations of state interference in academic freedom.

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KATHMANDU -- Nepal has protested against India's decision to reopen a Himalayan pass leading to a revered Hindu pilgrimage site in Tibet, reviving a territorial dispute between the two neighbors.

HO CHI MINH CITY -- From its first gurgles in the mountains of Tibet, the Mekong River winds its way for more than 4,000 kilometers through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It then splits into nine channels in a region known as Cuu Long (Nine Dragons) to the Vietnamese, and "the rice bowl of Vietnam" to outsiders.

HAMBURG, Germany - A human rights group is conducting workshops in Switzerland to help the country's Uyghur and Tibetan communities deal with attempts by agents of China to spy on, coerce or intimidate them.

Tokyo -- Carlsberg has agreed to divest from a brewing joint venture in Tibet after two decades, following years of confrontations and complications with its Chinese partner.