No jobs, no hope, Nepal's workers head to the Gulf and Malaysia


TELKOTNepal (Reuters) - Raju Prasad Lamichhane is thinking of leaving Nepal again to drive trucks inQatar even though his father died while working there.

"What else can we do? We have no other source of income," Lamichhane said, sitting with his mother and brother in the half-finished house he started building in Telkot village near Kathmandu with money earned in the Gulf.

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