Nepal announced free visas for SAARC journalists at the national conference on 'Freedom of Press and Media Laws' organised by South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) Nepal Chapter, which began in Kathmandu on Friday. Over 100 journalists from five South-Asian countries attended the conference where new acts and legal provisions on existing laws, and new forms of the media were discussed. Nepal became the first country in the SAARC region to make this concession.