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Singaporean tourist goes missing on Mount Everest

Singaporean tourist goes missing on Mount Everest

A search is ongoing after a Singaporean climber went missing after reaching the summit of Mount Everest last late week. Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya, an executive director at real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle, set out from Singapore to Nepal to climb the world’s highest peak last month and was due …

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Nepali mountaineer climbs Everest for record 27th time

Nepali mountaineer climbs Everest for record 27th time

Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the 27th time on Wednesday, reclaiming the record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain. “He successfully reached the summit this morning guiding a Vietnamese climber,” Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks, his expedition organiser, told …

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The last-placed runner who became toast of Cambodia

The last-placed runner who became toast of Cambodia

Everyone in Phnom Penh, it seems, wants a selfie with Bou Samnang. The Cambodian runner has become a star of the Southeast Asian Games since her gritty performance in the 5,000m. Although she came last, her determination to finish the race under torrential rain charmed the country and even won …

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