Congratulations U-19 team! The U-19 national soccer team of Nepal did it for the first time ever! They are now SAFF Champions after defeating all South Asian opponents. Wow!! Left in the unforgiving trail of young Nepalese boots lie Bhutan and Bangladesh, Afghanistan – beaten in the semi-finals – and in the final match, arch-rival […]
These days our thoughts go out to Nepal’s young boys and girls who are about to face the SLC examination. Known as the “Iron Gate”, the examination is feared by thousands of youth every year – and for good reason. The odds of passing are simply poor. It’s not just that many of the students […]
Football is indeed loath with money in many countries and can be the road to prosperity for a young person. But is football a source of income and profit also in Nepal? To be sure, money is involved. As a case in point, the next winner of the National League tournament will be awarded one […]
Motorbikes and fast cars are conventionally a man thing. But not to a young woman down in Chitwan. To her, a fast-geared bike is as natural as a hair drier! Watch as she takes rounds inside an old-fashioned motordrome: on the wall of death. She is traveling with a whole crew of drivers – her […]
What’s the annual budget for public education in Nepal? Well, this year it’s 80 billion rupees – four times the budget for agriculture, almost three times the budget for health and – in fact – far above the budget for any other development sector in the country. Perhaps it’s not a big budget compared to […]
