{"id":1450,"date":"2016-03-01T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2016-03-26T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:10:27","slug":"shuttle-time-nepal-project-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle Time Nepal project launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1451\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Launch of Shuttle Time Nepal\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mar 1, 2016- Youth and Sports minister Satya Narayan Mandal and Australian Ambassador to Nepal Glenn White on Monday jointly launched the Shuttle Time Nepal project.<br \/>\nThe project in funded by the Australia\u2019s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade under its Asian Sports Partnership Program<br \/>\n2015-2016. Shuttle Time Nepal will reach over 500 primary school teachers across the countryand, through those teachers, deliver a 12 week Shuttle Time programme that will benefit over 20,000 primary school children. It will provide school with badminton kits, teaching resources and training for 20 tutors across the five regions.<br \/>\nMinister Mandal said the project would help foster relations between Nepal and Australia and such initiatives, which targets grass roots level, help promote people\u2019s health and sports culture. Ambassador White said Australia and Nepal share a love of sport which has the ability to define nations\u2019 identity, values and culture.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia has led the way in supporting successful sport for development programs in the Pacific since 2009. In Nepal, Australia has been a partner in the areas of cricket, LGBTI Regional Sporting event, netball and Special Olympics. I\u2019m pleased to announce a new relationship between the Australian Government, Badminton Australia, the World Badminton Federation and the Nepal Badminton Association,\u201d said White.<br \/>\nSource: Kathmundupost\/ The Himalayan<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 1, 2016- Youth and Sports minister Satya Narayan Mandal and Australian Ambassador to Nepal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[11,9,30,6,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",800,533,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",800,533,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",800,533,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",800,533,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",713,475,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Shuttle-Time-Nepal.jpg",473,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}