Nepal needs help in technical areas, not search and rescue, foreign minister says

Nepal's foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, says the country now needs foreign expertise in technical areas like identifying the dead and conducting DNA testing, rather than search and rescue. The shift suggests Nepal's immediate rescue phase, following a disaster in the Nepal-Tibet border region, has given way to recovery and identification work, Channel NewsAsia reports.

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