Balendra Shah seems set to tick another box—a young Hindu leader in a Hindu-majority country, where Hinduism is free from ...

Balendra Shah, known as Balen, wins Nepal's parliamentary elections at age 35, defeating former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli in a youth-led political upheaval.

Millennial ex-rapper has brought a ‘pugnacious’ energy to Nepal’s geriatric political establishment ...

Balendra "Balen" Shah's historic leap from Kathmandu's streets to national power marks a dramatic shift in Nepali politics ...

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is dominating the count, with Shah on course to be prime minister.

From the unlikely background of Nepal’s new leader to Thai police’s deadly blind spot, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s ...

Nepal had two percent of votes left to count on Wednesday after parliamentary elections, with rapper-turned-politician ...

Rapper-turned-Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, who once blasted India, China and the US in a viral post, is now poised to ...

Votes are still being counted but rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah has taken a decisive early lead in Nepal's general election which would put him on track to become the country's next prime ...

Nepalis are voting in a consequential election that will chart the country's path after last year's youth-led anti-corruption ...

Last year, the people of New York elected a new mayor in democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, an ex-rapper who once sent Stereogum his music. Mamdani is not the only rapper to become a governmental ...