By Nazario Rodriguez Jr.
Horizon news staff

The Palau Island Taekwondo, a newly established company operated by a former Nepalese contract worker, is inviting interested individuals especially Palauan kids to try the sport.
Sessions are ongoing daily from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. except Sunday.
Master Purna Khadka (black belt) yesterday said that beginning today, his association is inviting parents to enroll at the Gym located in Topside.
Registration fee is $45 for a month with twice-a-week sessions and one-hour session each.
Khadka said that he has been holding Taekwondo lessons since July last year when the company is still known as Palau Taekwondo Association.
Khadka said that in the near future, he would be bringing Palauan kids to a tournament in Davao following his recent trip there.
"The Taekwondo association in Davao has assured us to extend invitations for an upcoming tournament and I am willing to bring interested kids from Palau for this," he said.
Khadka recalled that he started learning the rudiments of the sport when he was 10 years old in his hometown of Parbatipur, Nepal.
He went to the Army later but in 1991, he got his black belt then in 1996, he went to Palau as a contract worker.
In 2001, he settled to the US until 2005 but while there he dreamt of coming back to Palau and put up the Taekwondo gym and finally got his FIB certificate Jan 5 this year.
According to the flyers he provided, some of the tenets of Taekwondo that he is propagating for his students include courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit.