Three Malaysians among 261 foreigners unaccounted for in Xizang mudslide

On a Tuesday in late August, the earth gave way at Gyirong Port — a crossing where China meets Nepal and the world passes through — swallowing into uncertainty 261 souls from 23 nations. Four days later, governments on multiple continents were still calling names into the silence, among them three Malaysians. The disaster reminds us that the places where borders dissolve into commerce and movement are also places of shared vulnerability, where a single rupture in the ground becomes a rupture in the lives of families spread across the globe.