KATHMANDU, Dec 12: With the UN deadline for member states to repatriate all North Korean nationals earning money in their respective countries just over a week away, Nepal has forcibly closed some North Korean businesses that ignored instructions to cease operations and leave the country by October 31.

BEIJING, June 27: Some 44 Nepali women have been tricked into underpaid overwork within the secured perimeters of a garment factory in northeastern China.