The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as One Belt One Road (OBOR), is an initiative of China to build a wide network of land and sea routes to global connectivity. It is a Chinese dream envisioning the revival of the historic Silk Road that laid the way for Chinese prosperity, enriching international trade and political relations. It is now being reinvented with a plan to develop the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt that links China with the rest of Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia and East Asia, according to modern parameters.

BEIJING, April 25: China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers' meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice-breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Nepal-China Chamber of Commerce & Industry organized a daylong seminar on 'Strengthening cooperation to promote the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative between Nepal and China' in Kathmandu on Monday.

In October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative during his visit to Central and Southeast Asian countries.

Despite geopolitical complexities riveting the Asian region, Nepal, as an immediate neighbor, has formally joined the China-led belt and road initiative (BRI), with an anticipation to promote mutual beneficial cooperation in various fields including infrastructural up-gradation, economic development, and enhancement of the capacity in the service sector, technology transfer, cultural collaboration and above all growth of tourism sector. Because of the connectivity, millions of people visit or go through Nepal.

China to scale up support for Belt and Road Initiative

BEIJING, May 10: Nepali ambassador to China Leela Mani Paudyal said that Nepal's participation in China's ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative is going to add new momentum to Nepal-China relations.

TERATHUM,, April 30: A woman died this morning after getting ensnarled in a threshing machine belt in a mill at Musangkhel of Laliguransh Municipality – 3 here.

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: Nepal Council for Silk Road Chamber of Commerce (NCSRCC) has been formed to promote One Belt, One Road concept.