For the last three years, China has imposed an undeclared blockade at the transit points on the Nepal-China border citing the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused economic hardships for Nepali traders and deaths by suicide.
Sudarshan Ghimire, 42-year-old, a small business person, and owner of a clothing shop in Ranjana Complex in Kathmandu, Nepal killed himself after he couldn’t pay off the loan to the bank as goods were stranded at the Nepal-China border.
The paper says Nepali leaders conversing with China's Mr Li Zhanshu should pointedly ask what is stopping the Chinese from opening their borders. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In a bid to cultivate ties with Nepal's parliament, China's top legislator Li Zhanshu signed an agreement with Agni Prasad Sapkota, speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament, on Monday.
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