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Courtesy The Daily News (Sri Lanka) Colombo, August 5: Following the month long violent unrest over the job quota issue in Bangladesh, and upon the intervention of the Bangladesh army chief Gen.Waker-uz Zaman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday flew out of the country, the daily Prothom Alo reported. Army Chief Gen. Zaman began a meeting […]

Rama Lakshmi Courtesy The Print This isn’t just a story about street power and regime change. It is about a new semiotics of takeover. Dhaka protests have a dotted line all the way to Colombo, Lahore, and Washington. The loot and ransacking of Sheikh Hasina’s residence Ganabhaban in Bangladesh points to a disturbing new way in which […]

By  Craig C Lewis Courtesy Buddhist Door Global Volunteers from the Buddhist humanitarian relief organization JTS Korea, founded by the revered Korean Dharma master and Buddhist activist Venerable Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님), recently conducted humanitarian relief work in Sri Lanka, reaching out to low-income students and underprivileged communities who have been the most vulnerable to the fallout […]

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 3: It has long been a common perception that none of the main candidates will be able to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote in the upcoming presidential election. For the last few days after the announcement of the Presidential election by the Election Commission, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් බංගලාදේශ අරගලය මෙන් මෙරට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවද අල්ලා ගැනීම සඳහා පහුගිය අරගල සමයේ අවස්ථාවක් තිබූ බව ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ ජාතික විධායක සභික කේ.ඩී. ලාල් කාන්ත මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ගාලු මුවදොර අරගලය විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපති ධුරයෙන් නෙරපා දැමූ පසු වහාම අරගලය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට හැරවිය යුතුව තිබූ බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටියි. තම පක්ෂය එම එම […]

Courtesy Adaderana The agreement for obtaining USD 300 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the implementation of power sector reforms and financial sustainability program has been signed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the ADB. The Government of Sri Lanka had discussions with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to mobilize three […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The IMF may have their own agendas. But they are in the country because our politicians and officials failed to manage the economy leading it to bankruptcy. Some degree of economic and financial discipline is evident today, thanks to the presence of the IMF. Any proposed re negotiations should be on the […]

Vichara Members of Parliament are considered the representatives of the people, and their decisions are guided by the wishes of the people and national interests. The exodus of SLPP members to the Ranil camp is under the delusion that RW performed a miracle in taking the country out of the economic and security debacle. It […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Prasanna Withanage’s newest movie, “Paradise,” is based on several elements. The movie discusses racial relations in a multiethnic country.  An Indian couple (Amritha and Kasav ) visits Sri Lanka during the height of the socio-economic drawbacks and encounters a nightmare. Their main aim is to see the places associated with the […]

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Media OutReach Newswire FUZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 5 August 2024 – From August 1 to 3, the Delegation of Fujian visited Saudi Arabia. The Delegation of Fujian had in-depth exchanges with officials from the Saudi Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Investment, Ministry of Media, and other relevant departments, and introduced the economic […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Despite the nationwide curfew, protesters began a ‘Long March to Dhaka’ demanding Prime Minister’s resignation, while Hasina labeled the protests as sabotage. As Bangladesh faces political turmoil due to student protests demanding the abolition of quotas in civil service jobs and with Sheikh Hasina having resigned as prime minister and fled the country, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In an effort to ensure international visitors do not face inconvenience in obtaining the relevant permits to enter Sri Lanka, in the absence of an eVisa platform, arrangements have been made to resume the issuance of tourist and business visas through the Sri Lanka missions overseas.  The tourism industry stakeholders, in […]

IMF Communications Department Sri Lanka, Colombo – August 2, 2024: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team led by Senior Mission Chief Mr. Peter Breuer visited Sri Lanka from July 25 to August 2, 2024, to discuss recent macroeconomic developments and progress in implementing economic and financial policies under the authorities’ economic reform program supported by […]

Courtesy CNA Sri Lanka must make further efforts to raise fiscal revenue if it is to maintain macroeconomic stability and restore debt sustainability, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, after wrapping up a staff visit to the country. After September’s presidential election in the Indian Ocean nation, the global lender will discuss the timing […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth Why are there no Booker Prize-winning novels about mundane multicultural families that inter-married for generations, shared religion/s, language/s, histories, and co-existed for centuries, while living in relative harmony in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka? Is the trope of ‘dark natives’ engaged in endless, chaotic […]

e-Con e-New blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 28 July – 03 August 2024 * ‘There is no part of this earth’s surface perhaps about which more has been written than about the island of Ceylon.’ – JA Ferguson, 1898 * US Warship Michael Murphy (sounds like Irish blasphemy, but is part of the […]

Rohana R. Wasala This is for the kind attention of my dear readers. When skimming through the article published in Lankaweb, I found some inadvertent errors that had survived my normal pre-emailing revision of the text. Please bear with me. I take this opportunity to amend only the following very misleading sentence that appeared towards […]

Pathfinder Foundation -Pathfinder Foundation, Australian High Commission and NatStrat hold Track 1.5 Trilateral Roundtable on Maritime Security- Pathfinder Foundation and the Australian High Commission in Colombo co-hosted a Track 1.5 Trilateral Roundtable titled “Sri Lanka-India-Australia: Maritime Neighbours and Partners”. The event at the Australian High Commission brought together key stakeholders and experts to discuss pressing maritime security issues in the region. Theprogramme commenced with a welcome address by H. E. Paul Stephens, Australian High […]

Courtesy Adaderana India is seeking customs duty concession on a number of goods including cars, commercial vehicles and machinery from Sri Lanka under a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA), talks for which are underway, an official said. India has also sought easier visa norms to further facilitate entry of professionals from here, the official said. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The leader of Mawbima Janatha Party (MJP), entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera was named as the Presidential Candidate of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance, a short while ago. Executive member of ‘Sarvajana Balaya’  MP Wimal Weerawansa announced this during the alliance’s convention currently being held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo. Several key members of […]

By Sena Thoradeniya (Continued from July 5, 2024) 1. The dress rehearsal: JVP/NPP behavior during the crisis in 2022 How JVP/NPP behaved during the crisis in 2022 is well-documented by many writers; this writer’s Galle Face Protest: Systems Change or Anarchy? Politics, Religion & Culture in a Time of Terror in Sri Lanka” (2023) gives […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Please ensure that none of these monks, not a single one, get exploited by politicians in the fast approaching election time and ever again in the future. No monks should be allowed to offer themselves as candidates or to collect funds for that purpose from donors. No monks should be allowed […]

දේශමාන්‍ය ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර  හැඳින්වීම                           2023.5. 17.  ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ජනබල පෙරමුණ රට දැය සමය බේරාගැනීමේ සහ සුරක්ෂිත කිරීමේ ජාතික දසබල පෙරමුණද වේ. එය සම්ප්‍රදායික දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් නොවේ.සඟවෙදගුරු ගොවිකම්කරු සිටු-නිළදරු, මා-වියතුන්(මා=මාධ්‍යවේදීන්), මානවමානවිකා යන ජනතා බලවේග 10 එම දස බලය වේ පෙරමුණේ ලාන්චනය:                  ධර්ම චක්‍රය. පෙරමුණේ පුවත්පත:                    ජනබලය”  පෙරමුණේ සන්යුතිය  දීපව්‍යාප්ත 30,000 ක දේශපාලන බල හමුදාවක් […]

by Ifham Nizam Courtesy The Island Dr. Ahilan Kadirgamar ‘On a research project on debt restructuring and economic recovery of Sri Lanka following the default in April 2022, I have found that the IMF program is further aggravating the crisis. The IMF’s Debt Sustainability Analysis, with targets such as, a primary budget surplus of 2.3% […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Why has the US constantly tried to overthrow Venezuela’s leftist government, backing coup attempts against Presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro? Ben Norton analyzes the role of Venezuela’s large oil reserves and natural resources; socialist system; anti-imperialist foreign policy; partnership with China, Russia, and Iran; and leadership in building a multipolar world.

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Aug 3 (AdaDerana) – The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) has won the Best International Tourism Board” accolade at the Global Tourism Awards 2024, organized by the Travel World Online (TWO). The Global Tourism Awards 2024 was held on 2nd of August 2024 in New Delhi, India. The Global Tourism Awards serve […]