Charting China’s future

Published On: October 18, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Liang Jun and Yang Mu

The CPC meeting is an opportunity for the Party to explicitly declare which policies it upholds and which path it will take in next five years.

Presidential system, no-no

Published On: October 17, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Bishal Thapa

An executive president would not only be detrimental for Nepal’s socio-economic progress, it could also undercut and even spell an end of the nascent democracy.

Against poverty

Published On: October 17, 2017 01:00 AM NPT By: Siromani Dhungana

Successive governments have been less and less accountable and more and more extractive, hampering poverty reduction.

The BRI miracle

Published On: October 17, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shang-Jin Wei

A cost-benefit analysis shows that the economic case for BRI is so strong one may ask why China didn’t undertake it sooner.

Just asking

Published On: October 16, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

What is it that we, the sovereign and proud people of Nepal want, and how do we go about achieving it?

CPC at crossroads

Published On: October 16, 2017 01:00 AM NPT By: Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Would China be more stable with a competitive multi-party system? How does the CPC as the ruling party claim legitimacy?

Connected growth

Published On: October 16, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Anna Marrs

The BRI can create a bigger network of markets and new opportunities for ASEAN and South Asia.

Thinking of Tihar

Published On: October 15, 2017 01:23 PM NPT By: Usha Pokharel

Laxmi is restless and does not stay in one place, so by lighting diyo we try to lure her into our homes.

Unnatural disasters

Published On: October 15, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Tom Robertson

In one country a 7.8 quake leaves a path of devastation, collapsing homes and twisting roads; in another, the same magnitude earthquake takes few lives and destroys almost no buildings.

Local remedies

Published On: October 15, 2017 01:00 AM NPT By: Mukti Rijal

Giving both executive and judicial rights to elected local representatives goes against democratic principles.