Archive for January, 2022
Sunday, January 9th, 2022
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Courtesy The Morning Says SL would benefit immensely from FTA with China Says willing to discuss any concerns of SL Negotiations stalled since 2017 due to sticking points During Foreign Minister Yi’s visit, Sri Lanka and China signed four agreements; namely an agreement on Economic and Technical Co-operation, the Letter of […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
අම්රා ලියාකත් මව්බිම දැන් 2022 වසරේදී සම්පූර්ණයෙන් ම අයිති වීමට තිබූ ත්රිකුණාමල තෙල් ටැංකි 101කින් තෙල් ටැංකි 14ක් බලශක්ති අමාත්ය උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා ඉන්දියානු IOC සමාගමට අවුරුදු 50කට බදු දුන් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී තිස්ස අත්තනායක මහතා පවසයි. මෙහිදී මන්ත්රීවරයා සඳහන් කළේ, උදය ගම්මන්පිල්ල මහතාගේ ”මොළය පරීක්ෂා කළ යුතු” බව ය. එමෙන් ම මෙමගින් ත්රිකුණාමල තෙල් […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
by PROF.TISSA VITARANA Courtesy The Island With the dawn of the Year 2022 I wish you all happiness, good health, and fulfillment of your needs and targets. But I cannot wish you prosperity, because only the rich are enjoying that privilege. The maximum tax on the rich including multi billionaires still remains at 14%. The […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ රටේ ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නවලට පිළිතුර වන්නේ දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම් එකතු වී නව සංවිධාන බිහිකිරීම නොව, පාලකයින් කැපකිරීම්වලට යොමුවීම බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ සිය උතුරු පළාත් සංචාරය අතරතුර යාපනයේදී අද (09) ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමිනි. “තෙල්, බෙහෙත්, ආහාර ගෙන්වන්න ඩොලර් නැහැ. කර්මාන්තවලට අමුද්රව්ය නැහැ. නිෂ්පාදනය කඩා වැටෙනවා. ඉතා […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ ජනතා ඡන්දය ලබාගැනීම ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරය සිදුවීමට ඉඩහැරියේ දැයි සැක සහිත බව අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසයි. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරයේ විමර්ශන පිළිබඳව සූම් තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ ඊයේ පැවති සම්මන්ත්රණයකට එක්වෙමිනි. පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරයේ විමර්ශනවල වත්මන් ප්රගතිය පිළිබඳ යුරෝපයේ වෙසෙන ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ ජනමත විචාරණයක් මගින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ කාලය දිර්ඝ කරගැනීමට සුදානම් නොවන්නැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මාතර දිස්ත්රික් සමුළුවට අද (09) එක්වෙමිනි. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මාතර දිස්ත්රික් සමුළුව පක්ෂ සභාපති හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද මෙලෙස පැවැත්වුණි. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China and Member of the State Council Wang Yi, and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was held at the Presidential Secretariat, today (09) further strengthening the 65 years of diplomatic relations between China and Sri Lanka, the PMD said. Warmly welcoming the […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Following a special request by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on behalf of Sri Lankan medical students awaiting to return to China to complete their studies, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi immediately instructed the Ambassador of China in Sri Lanka to work closely with the Foreign Ministry to facilitate the return of […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Port City Marina Promenade, a 500m public walking path, has been declared open at an event marking the 65th diplomatic anniversary between China and Sri Lanka today (January 09). The opening of the Marina Promenade was announced during a ceremony graced by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chinese Foreign […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that 436 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within today (09). This figure includes 06 persons who have arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community infections. This brings Sri Lanka’s coronavirus caseload thus far to 591,667 while the number of infected […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSMEs) play a major role in the development of the economy due to their potential to promote inclusive growth by reducing inequalities of economic performance, and their capacity to develop into large organizations later on, thereby providing employment to a substantial proportion of the population and contributing […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. We don’t believe in Sinhala only power – Anura Kumara Dissanayake Excerpts of an interview given by Tamil servile Anura Kumara on 5th January 2022 to Daily Mirror staff Susitha Fernando are given below with appropriate comments. Preamble: We can appoint a Cabinet with people who are extremely qualified in […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
සංවාදය Asian Mirror පොදු ජන පෙරමුණ ආණ්ඩුවේ මන්ත්රීවරයෙකු වුවද පොදු ජන ප්රශ්න වලදී සිය ස්වාධීන මතයට මුල් තැන දෙමින් කටයුතු කරන මතභේදාත්මක චරිතයක් වන ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ , ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඒෂියන් මිරර් වෙත සිදුකළ ආන්දෝළනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්ව
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ කුලපති පදවියෙන් පිදුම් ලැබු නාරාහේන්පිට ශ්රී අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේට උපහාර පිදීමේ අනද නාහිමි කුලපති උපහාර” උළෙල අද (08) දින පෙරවරුවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්විණි. කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ කුලපති ධූරයට පත් වූ නාරාහේන්පිට ශ්රී අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති, […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 8 (newsin.asia): The visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Sri Lanka from January 8 to 9, and the Indian Foreign Minister S.Jaishankar’s recent phone call to his Lankan counterpart G.L.Peiris, have given the impression that both Asian giants are keen on helping Sri Lanka come out […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මුදල් අච්චු ගසා සහන දෙන්න යාමෙන් ඇතිවන උද්ධමනය ගැන ආණ්ඩුව සිතා බැලිය යුතු බව අමාත්ය උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. රජයේ ආදායම් වැඩි වෙන්නෙ නැතිනම් වෙනත් වියදමක් කපා හැරෙන්නේද නැතිනම් සහන දෙන්න සිදු වන්නේ මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමෙන් බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. අද වන විට මේ රටේ ජනතාව දැවැන්ත උද්ධමනය මුහුණ දෙමින් […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Courtesy The Morning Finance Min. proposes seeking financial package similar to that with India Notes 20% of Sri Lanka’s foreign debt payments are to China and Japan Proposes seeking trade concessions by doing away with trade restrictions Discussion with China likely to commence during Yi visit The Government of Sri Lanka is to look at […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
By Maneesha Dullewe Courtesy The morning Concerns over compensation mapping process Farmer trade unions have protested a decision by the Government to only provide compensation to farmers who suffered crop damage due to the use of organic fertiliser issued by the State, stressing that the conditions had been imposed retroactively. Farmers are also questioning how […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
BY Marianne David Courtesy The Morning China is not welcome in the North and East while India has a legitimate role to play, asserted TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran in an interview with The Sunday Morning. Commenting on potential Chinese projects and investment in the North and East, in the backdrop of the high-profile visit to […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Rabi Sankar Bosu Courtesy CGTN Sri Lankan Sanjeewa Alwis (1st R), a project engineer working at China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC)’s Port City Colombo project, checks the work at a construction site in Colombo’s Port City, Sri Lanka, November 30, 2021. /Xinhua Editor’s note: Rabi Sankar Bosu is an Indian contributor to Chinese media outlets. He […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Courtesy Ceylon Today China has manufactured a giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) for Sri Lanka. The TBM, made by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corp Ltd, has been rolled off the assembly line in Changsha, Hunan Province. The machine with a diameter of 7.6 meters will be used in a water diversion project in SL. […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror India topped Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals in December and the entire year, according to data published by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA). For most part of 2020 beginning April, Sri Lanka shut its borders fearing import of COVID-19 cases into the island nation, which was then making global headlines […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana China’s Foreign Minister and State Councillor, Wang Yi arrived in Sri Lanka this evening (January 08) on a two-day official visit. Accompanied by a delegation of 18 Chinese officials, Minister Wang Yi reached the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake at around 8.20 p.m. via B-8415, a flight belonging to a Chinese carrier. […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Another 580 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 08) the Ministry of Health reported. This figure includes 06 persons who recently arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases. The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far stands at 591,231 with the new […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Voice Tube ජනපතිගේ එක රටක් එක නීතියට නෝන්ඩියකුත් දමයි – සාමූහික වගකීම වගන්ති එක්කම කියයි
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Friday, January 7th, 2022
Sri Lanka Study Circle” A wild frenzy to sell-off the country’s assets to foreign parties, making dishonourable gains in the process and making plans to push off to foreign abodes to enjoy their booty, appears to be the sole aim of the members of the current government; there appears to be no difference between them and […]
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Friday, January 7th, 2022
By Rohana R. Wasala Gravitas News (wionews, World is One News) web portal reported Tuesday December 21, 2021: Riyadh holds 4-day EDM carnival”. Commenting on the electronic dance music extravaganza, unprecedented in Saudi Arabia, the young news anchor said, The defacto leader of the Islamic World, the Guardian of the two holiest sites in Islam, […]
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Friday, January 7th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS The UN started to take an interest in the Eelam war from Eelam War III onwards. Eelam War III was from `1995-2002 and Eelam War IV was 2006 -2009 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (not to be confused with UNHRC) was in Sri Lanka in 1987, invited by the Sri Lankan Government […]
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Friday, January 7th, 2022
T Navajyoti No continent is spared by the pandemic. Of the 1940 journalists dead registered by the PEC since March 1, 2020, Latin America leads with half of the victims, or 955 deaths. Asia follows with 556 dead, ahead of Europe 263, then Africa 98 and North America 68. More than 50 casualties are still […]
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Friday, January 7th, 2022
සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. ලේකම්, ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය, නිල මැඳුර, නාරාහේන්පිට. ලේකම් තුමනි, ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් දේශපාලන අතකොළු බවට පත්කරවීම සම්බන්ධයෙනි. 2021 නොවැම්බර් 25 ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද රාජකාරී ලැයිස්තු ප්රකාරව රාජකාරී පැවරීම වෙනුවට ආණ්ඩුවේ දේශපාලන අධිකාරියේ පටු වුවමනාවන් ඉටු කිරීමට ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් යොදා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙනි. 2022 අයවැය යෝජනා අනුව […]
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