Nepalese authorities have intensified a crackdown against illegal cross-border matchmaking following revelations that brokers ...

Nepalese authorities are cracking down on illegal cross-border matchmaking that markets Nepali women as brides for Chinese nationals. Several arrests and deportations have occurred, while the Chinese ...

Officials say online brokers are promoting Nepali women to Chinese men, prompting detentions and official warnings.

Nepal has launched a major crackdown on what authorities describe as a "bride buying" racket involving Chinese brokers and ...

Kathmandu [Nepal], Aug 31 (ANI): The Anti-Human Trafficking Bureau of Nepal Police on Saturday arrested 10 people including four Chinese nationals for allegedly running a bride trafficking racket. The ...

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Home to 28 million people, Nepal masks a centuries old practice. The country registers one of the highest child marriages in the world with 37% of girls married under the legal age of 20 years.

Early marriages are common in many parts of Nepal. But, as each month brings reports of murders and brides being thrown onto the streets, child rights activists say the lives of young girls are being ...

In Nepal, 37 percent of girls are married before the age of 18, despite the legal age of marriage being 20 for both girls and boys. Poverty, peer and family pressure, as well as gender inequality, all ...

Narendra Chamar, who is now in his early 30s, laughs these days when he speaks about his marriage. But during the actual ceremony he cried so much they had to stop so he could be taken to his mother ...