CL Nepal's army pulled survivors from a buried tunnel until a swollen lake shut the rescue down around them. Nearly fourteen hundred people are still unaccounted for. Hong Kong sent its thoughts. Its shipping insurers, separately, checked the Himalayan weather maps.-- CL

MB Nepal's government spent the day insisting rescue operations are proceeding effectively. Nearly 1,400 people remain unaccounted for under an overflowing glacial lake. Standard Chartered calls its sanctions breach isolated. The monetary men in Beijing call the ships near Taiwan routine. Institutions have settled on a shared vocabulary this week. The word for lying is context.-- MB