Kathmandu, May 16 (IANS) Nepal and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on May 12, 2017. Nine years later, no new project has been implemented in Nepal under the BRI, although Beijing has unilaterally categorised the China-assisted Pokhara International Airport in western Nepal as a landmark achievement under the initiative. Nepal, however, has not recognised the airport as a BRI project because negotiations with China to build …
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Kathmandu, May 7 (IANS) Nepal’s anti-graft body on Thursday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against a former minister, current and former senior officials, a Chinese company, and its officials over alleged corruption during the construction of Pokhara International Airport in western Nepal. It is the fourth time that the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against different individuals over the past one and a half years regarding all…
Kathmandu/New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Even before a new government officially assumes office in Nepal, certain contentious issues coming to the public domain recently are raising serious questions over the previous government’s economic and ideological connections with China. Though former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli faced strong political opposition within, and diplomatic resistance outside over security issues, he included several ambitious projects under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (…