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  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Bangladesh
    • Hong Kong
    • Indonesia
    • Myanmar
    • Nepal
    • Thailand

    The youth are revolting as Asia's gerontocracy is showing its age

    Erika Isabel Bulan Yague , Lukas Nagel , Helen Berents
    Across the region, leaders twice the median age of their populations face sustained resistance from a new generation.
  • 23 Sep 2025
    • Bangladesh
    • Nepal
    • Sri Lanka

    The outside-in story that helps explain turmoil in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka

    Nilanthi Samaranayake
    External dynamics help explain the recent political upheaval seen across several smaller South Asian countries.
  • 18 Sep 2025
    • China
    • India
    • Nepal

    Nepal’s generational revolt catches China and India in the middle

    Saima Afzal
    Political upheaval in Kathmandu tests the limits of great power influence in South Asia.
  • 16 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Nepal
    • Philippines

    Chronicles of corruption

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The public outcry against systemic corruption in Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines exposes government greed and elite excess amid widespread poverty.
  • 10 Apr 2025
    • Nepal

    Nepal: Between India, China, Hindu nationalism and a royal return

    Barshaneel Bora
    A constitutionally enshrined republic means the only way back for the king is via elections, regardless of the preference of big neighbours.
  • 15 Feb 2024
    • Nepal
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    Dying to work abroad: Why Nepalese migrants are fighting other people’s wars

    Harris Amjad
    In Russia and beyond, those desperate for work are sacrificing their lives and livelihoods.
  • 21 Aug 2023
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • India
    • Maldives
    • Nepal
    • Sri Lanka

    India doubles down on regional connectivity to counter China

    Henry Storey
    New Delhi has big advantages in its South Asia infrastructure push – even if outspending China isn’t one of them.
  • 20 Jun 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Nepal

    Is the Gorkha’s place in India’s history about to change?

    Rishi Gupta
    A new scheme for Nepalese recruits breaks a 75-year tradition and is straining relations between the two countries.
  • 26 Sep 2022
    • India
    • Nepal

    Animal attractions: India confronts a neighbourhood dilemma

    Aarti Betigeri
    Wildlife doesn’t care for political boundaries, but nationalism can prove a stubborn obstacle to conservation efforts.
  • 20 Feb 2020
    • Sustainability
    • Nepal

    If a tree falls in Nepal, will anyone care?

    Aarti Betigeri
    A sprawling new airport is in the works. But tourism carries an ecological price that can undercut the industry, too.
  • 12 Feb 2019
    • Nepal

    Nepal’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission limps on

    Renee Jeffery
    A culture of impunity has proved stubborn and entrenched.
  • 22 Oct 2018
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Nepal

    Thawing tensions in the Himalaya

    Alexander Davis , Lauren Gawne , Gerald Roche , Ruth Gamble
    Geopolitics are transforming this influential region politically, culturally, linguistically, and environmentally.
  • 11 Sep 2018
    • China
    • India
    • Nepal

    China’s trans-Himalayan tango with Nepal

    Stuart Lau
    After Doklam, confrontation has given way to economic contest, and perhaps the real China-India rivalry is yet to start.

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