Vape smuggling tarnishes Tatopani border point's image

By Chitra Mijar,Sindhupalchok, May 17: The Tatopani border point, the country’s largest northern trade gateway with China, continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. Once notorious for the trafficking of red sandalwood, gold, rare herbs and even rhino horns, the checkpoint has now earned infamy for the rampant smuggling of electronic cigarettes, commonly known as vapes, to Nepal.