Nepal's main opposition party chief to visit China next week

Nepalese main opposition party chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal will be visiting China next week, an aide of Dahal has said.

Dahal, who is also the chairman of the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), will visit China at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party.

"Chairman Dahal will leave for Kunming City of Yunan Province on Monday," Dahal's aide Chudamani Khadka told Xinhua.

Dahal is also scheduled to hold meetings with Chinese communist party leaders in China, but detailed programs of the visit has not been disclosed. According to the itinerary of his visit, Dahal will return home on March 23. Endi