Video explainers · Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and beyond
Short documentaries built on public data. Every video comes with its research notes: the key numbers, our own analysis, every source and the full transcript.
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· Cricket · Nepal Premier LeagueDavid Warner Joined Nepal's League. Who's Paying for It?Warner, Russell and Miller joined the Nepal Premier League this season. So who pays? We follow the NPL's money and compare it with the IPL and PSL. Players' fees aren't published, so we don't guess them.6 key numbers22 sources7 chaptersWatch and read the research Each figure on screen has a source and a date. The full list sits on the video’s page, linked to the original.
Where public data lets us check a claim ourselves, we do, and we publish the method and the data.
If we get something wrong, we fix it on the video’s page, say what changed and when.
· Cybersecurity
On 25 October we tried to open the websites of seven central banks in South Asia. Six opened. No hack was reported; the sites that went dark were switched off on purpose, after two critical flaws were found in PHP.
· Everest
Every foreign climber pays Nepal $15,000 to climb Everest. We followed one permit through Nepal's own records, then the rest of the bill, the people who do the climbing, and the mountain's own bill.
· Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz is nowhere near South Asia, yet seven months of disruption put Sri Lankan drivers on fuel quotas, cut factory hours in Bangladesh and pushed up prices from Karachi to Kathmandu.
· Ganges
India and Bangladesh have split the dry-season Ganges at Farakka under one treaty since 1996. It was signed for 30 years, and it runs out on 12 December 2026.
· Remittances
Nepalis working abroad sent home Rs 2.36 trillion last year, more than the government spent. Where the money goes, why it matters, and what happens if it stops.
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