Foreign recruiters in Nepal reopened their doors on Sunday after agreeing to end their two-week dispute with the country’s Ministry of Labor and Employment over service charges to candidates.

Chinese news website Shanghai Daily reports the dispute between the Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs' Association, the umbrella body of recruitment agencies in Nepal, and the Nepalese government was over its decision to enforce free visa and air tickets to migrant workers seeking work in Malaysia and the Gulf countries of Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait.

Following this weekend’s agreement, recruiters will adopt free visa and air ticket provision on a trial basis for three months. A panel has also been set up to study the viability of this new provision.

The new provision means recruiters cannot charge more than 10,000 rupees (£62) from jobseekers excluding charges for insurance, welfare fund and medical tests.

Nepal’s government had previously set 70,000 rupees as the service charge for workers going to the Gulf region and 80,000 rupees for those going to Malaysia.