Nepal’s rules are modelled on other parliamentary democracies. But rules matter only when the prime ministers answer questions — and the Speakers insist that they do.

Balendra Shah’s government spent 100 days performing sovereign equality with foreign envoys. Then someone had to actually go get an invitation.

The September uprising and its electoral aftermath have opened a window for the Nepali press to transform itself. That window won’t stay open long.

China’s new political doctrine, named after its president, used to be plastered all across the country. This week, it entered its next-door neighbor.