WeChat Pay of China launched in Nepal

STORY: WeChat Pay of China launched in Nepal DATELINE: June 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: POKHARA, Nepal CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launch ceremony STORYLINE: WeChat Pay, a mobile payment service run by China's tech giant Tencent, was launched on Thursday in Pokhara, a popular tourist destination in Nepal. Tencent is joining hands with Nepal's NMB Bank Limited to bring WeChat Pay service to the South Asian country. "I firmly believe that this collaboration will set new avenues for safe, secure and convenient cross-border merchant payments for Chinese tourists in Nepal," Guru Prasad Poudel, an executive director from Nepal Rastra Bank, the country's central bank, said at the launch ceremony. Addressing the ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song said that it is the right time and "full of great significance" to launch and promote WeChat Pay in Nepal. He spoke of an increasing number of Chinese tourists going overseas year by year and "the favorable prospects of the Chine