India-China feud keeps international planes out of Nepal airport
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Nepal has spent millions constructing a new airport in hopes of boosting tourism - but no-one is coming.

The bright orange hotel sticks out as far as the eye can see - but unfortunately for its owner Bishnu Sharma, there is hardly anyone there to see it.

His hotel offers breath-taking mountain views from the town of Lumbini in Nepal - Buddha's birthplace.

But a hoped-for surge in tourist numbers...

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