Kathmandu, Sept. 20 -- For months Bikash Khatri had been telling his employer he wanted to return home. On Saturday he left Kuala Lumpur with a ticket his employer bought him. And with a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test his employer paid for.

But he is not excited he will be home soon. He is coming back empty-handed.

"There was no work nor much income, so I thought of returning home," Khatri told the Post from Kuala Lumpur International Airport before boarding his flight to Kathmandu on Saturday morning.

Khatri, who worked at a restaurant since 2014, has been sent home since business was affected in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

All he had with him was Malaysian Ringgit (RM) 100, equivalent to Rs2,850. With this he h...