Newspaper clipping covering global events in Russia, the United States, Egypt, Japan, the United Kingdom, China, and Turkey, as well as regional news from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Mr. Koncho Tshering describes how his son helped build the Jarungkhashor stupa located outside Kathmandu, Nepal. Also known as Bouddha, Boudhanath, or Khasti Chaitya, it is one of the oldest stupas in the world. He says that construction and later renovations were funded by selling religious instruments and blessed earth collected from Nepal, India, and Bhutan in the Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.