KATHMANDU, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Ninety percent of Nepal's mobile set imports took place from China in the last fiscal year 2015-16 that concluded in mid-July, Nepal's Department of Customs (DoC) said.
Nepal imported 4,477,162 handsets from China against the total import of 5,005,499, according to DoC. This means around 90 percent of the handsets were imported from the northern neighbour of the Himalayan country.
Nepalese customs officials and mobile dealers said that as most of the mobile sets of global brands are manufactured in China and shipped globally, China has emerged as the largest supplier to Nepal.
In value, Nepal spent 169 million U.S. dollars to import the mobile sets, of which mobiles worth 129 million U.S. dollars were imported from China.
After China, Vietnam became the second largest supplier to Nepal with Nepal importing a total of 434,645 handsets from Vietnam whereas India came third with the supply of 90,030 mobile sets in the last fiscal year.
Sishir Dhungana, director general of DoC told Xinhua that as most of global mobile brands manufacture their products in China, Nepal received largest number of them from the northern neighbour.
"From Apple to Samsung and Indian brands like Karabonn and Micromax are also manufactured in China," said Dhungana.
Importers also make similar statements. Sirish Murarka, director of Pashupati Trade Link, the authorized distributor of Micromax mobile in Nepal, told Xinhua that their 80 percent of sets are imported from China despite being an Indian brand.
"We import mobile sets from both China and India, but the supply from China is bigger in quantity now," he said.
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NEW DELHI, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A local court in India's western state of Goa Friday acquitted two men accused of rape and murder of a British teenager, Scarlett Keeling, more than eight years ago, officials said.
The Goa court cleared the two men - Samson D'souza, 37, and Placido Carvalho, 48, of all charges including culpable homicide and rape of 15-year-old visiting tourist.
""I am devastated. The Indian judicial system has totally let me down,"" Keeling's mother, Fiona MacKeown told reporters after the verdict. ""My daughter was murdered. Someone should be held responsible.""
MacKeown has come to Goa, hoping her daughter would get justice. She is likely to challenge the verdict.
On morning of Feb. 19, 2008, Keeling's body was found on a Goan beach.
D'Souza and Carvalho, the two beach workers were accused of sexually assaulting Keeling after giving her a cocktail of drugs and leaving her unconscious in the shallow waters along the beach.
The teenager Keeling from Bideford in Devon, was in India on a six-month trip along with her family at the time of her death.
Her family had stated she had been at a Valentine's Day beach party while they had gone travelling.
The police in Goa initially dismissed the case as an ""accidental suicide,"" but a vigorous campaign by her family forced authorities to hand over the case to India's premier investigating agency - Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The officials carried out a second post-mortem examination in March 2008, which revealed Keeling had been drugged and raped before drowning in seawater.
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