Dear friends, colleagues, honoured guests, invitees,My good friend and colleague Dr. Pawan Kumar Sen will defend his PhD thesis Transforming Nepal’s Political System: Party Positions and Public Opinion (2004-2012) at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands on April 24th, 2025. The original defence date, November 27th, 2024, had to be cancelled to visa application and approval issues. Hopefully all of you did receive the cancellation announcement in time....

World Culture project and ‘Qian Qian’ Princess products Hello, my name is Jessee Zhang from China, part-time professor at IGI-GLOBAL (www.igi-global.com), engaged in and published articles on intellectual property for many years. I am a colleague of Caspar (www.ctdamconsultancy.com/testimonials/zhang-shi), being the Chinese studies editor (Chinese-language section) at the peer-reviewed journal Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics of which Caspar is the executive editor (www.ethnogeopolitics.org/board-orga...