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NEPAL'S former crown prince Paras has arrived in Singapore, a source said, as speculation swirled that he was planning to abandon his homeland for good.
Mr Paras, 36, boarded a Silk Air flight to Singapore on Tuesday, a senior airport security official in Nepal said, after initial reports said he had taken a flight to Bangkok.
'What I heard... he already landed in Singapore,' said the Singapore source on Wednesday, who asked not to be identified and could not immediately provide further details.
It was not clear where Mr Paras was staying. A check of several luxury hotels in Singapore showed nobody registered under his name.
When asked by journalists as he entered Kathmandu airport if he planned to return, he smiled and made no comment.
One Nepalese newspaper reported on Monday that he was leaving for Singapore and would call for his family to join him after two weeks.
On Tuesday another publication, The Himalayan Times, said the ex-prince was headed to Singapore to find a school and home for his three children and wife, but that he would not be living in the city-state himself.
It said Mr Paras was concerned for the safety of his family following the end of the 240-year-old monarchy in the Himalayan nation, and the withdrawal of all royal privileges.
His father, King Gyanendra, became the last of the Shah dynasty on May 28 when a Maoist-dominated assembly elected the previous month decided to declare the country a republic.
Mr Paras has been unpopular for years in Nepal where his fast-living reputation was not well viewed in the predominantly Hindu, conservative and impoverished nation. -- AFP
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