A Chinese foundation's plans to build a $3-billion “special development zone”
to transform the town of Lumbini into a major Buddhist pilgrimage centre have been cast in further doubt after a United Nations agency thought to be backing the project stressed it had no involvement in the plan.
to transform the town of Lumbini into a major Buddhist pilgrimage centre have been cast in further doubt after a United Nations agency thought to be backing the project stressed it had no involvement in the plan.
The Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation (APECF), a China-based organisation, last month unveiled plans to build highways, hotels, tourism centres and power projects to transform Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace, into a major tourist hub,
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