Last week marked the annual student elections for some of the major university and college campuses in Nepal. These elections, unlike most of the student elections I have seen, are incredibly heated and tumultuous events. They are political statements of youth who through their voting align themselves with national political parties. That’s right, you heard [...]
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It has been a pretty quiet month for news in Nepal actually – no major headlines but lots of great small ones that are interesting to me, so I will share. The Maoist government is having their annual convention this week, full of many many closed-door meetings. The political party system here is incredibly complex, with [...] In efforts to help a smidgen of news to trickle through from Nepal I will be starting a bi-monthly post highlighting some of what is making news in Nepal. I am guessing guess that your media coverage over the past month has mostly Obamania, the economic crisis, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict…am I correct? Making headlines in [...] |
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