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Bribe-proof pants to curb graft

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KATHMANDU - NEPAL'S anti-corruption authority has come up with a novel solution to rampant bribe-taking at the country's only international airport - the pocketless trouser.

The authority said it was issuing the new, bribe-proof garment to all airport officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.

'We sent a team to observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers and we discovered that the reports were true,' said Mr Ishwori Prasad Paudyal, spokesman for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

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Good and simple idea.

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