Kathmandu— In Nepal, citizens are subject to financial charges from birth until death, including a fee for cremation—a practice critics denounce as unethical and economically unsound. Despite decades of calls for reform following the Popular Movement of 1990, successive governments have continued to levy these fees, which were further entrenched after the country’s federalization in […]

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