{"id":27394,"date":"2025-07-25T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=27394"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:32:46","slug":"morimla-border-checkpoint-in-upper-dolpa-to-remain-open-for-20-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/morimla-border-checkpoint-in-upper-dolpa-to-remain-open-for-20-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Morimla border checkpoint in Upper Dolpa to remain open for 20 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kakrebihar (Surkhet), July 25: The Morimla border checkpoint between Nepal and China will be opened for trade and business in Upper Dolpa from coming August 10.<\/p>\n<p>Pemma Wangchen Gurung, vice-chair of Shey-Phoksundo Rural Municipality, informed that a decision has been made to open the border area from August 10-29 following discussions with officials from Dongba under China\u2019s Shigatse County.<\/p>\n<p>The Morimla border has been opened once a year for the three municipalities in Upper Dolpa. This year, 2,200 people received border entry passes to conduct trade across the border, informed Damodar Gyawali, the Assistant Chief District Officer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the municipality&#8217;s request, Armed Police and Nepal Police will be deployed up to the border during the period.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the border was opened for 15 days. Residents of Upper Dolpa have been purchasing daily consumables, clothing, and various machinery materials through the Morimla border.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the remote geography of Upper Dolpa, the transportation costs for Nepali goods are high, so locals have been buying Chinese goods here at cheaper prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakrebihar (Surkhet), July 25: The Morimla border checkpoint between Nepal and China will be opened for trade and business in Upper Dolpa from coming August 10. Pemma Wangchen Gurung, vice-chair of Shey-Phoksundo Rural Municipality, informed that a decision has been made to open the border area from August 10-29 following discussions with officials from Dongba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27407,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions\/27407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}