e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 20-26 July 2025 ‘If the country were turned into a giant hotel,turned into a huge plantation,turned into a large garment factory:we would not need schools or universities,for they require few modern skills…– SBD de Silva The media is full of the most […]

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Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake There are remarkable patterns of history, organized violence, and Disinformation between events leading to the pogrom and forced population displacements in Sri Lanka in 1983, and British occupied Palestine, 35 years earlier when the Nakba unfolded amid Cold War escalating in Europe. Both, Ceylon and Palestine were British occupied in 1948, and both […]

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By Jayantha Herath Visuals created with the assistance of Microsoft Copilot On Thursday, Parliament disclosed that 20,755 students dropped out of school in 2024, citing the need to close certain schools. However, it overlooked a more critical issue: the denial of university admission to 151,700 qualified students. This alarming figure highlights the urgent need to expand higher education […]

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Senaka Weeraratna Answer To get compensation from the ICC for the use of the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket, Sri Lanka needs to demonstrate that the system is a Sri Lankan invention and that they have the intellectual property rights to it. This would likely involve legal and diplomatic efforts, potentially including a formal […]

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Arun Siddharth

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Courtesy The South China Morning Post After a five-year import ban, BYD shrewdly adapted its models to circumvent sky-high taxes, making electric vehicles affordable again Dimuthu Attanayake Published: 5:00pm, 26 Jul 2025 Updated: 5:00pm, 26 Jul 2025 A BYD Seal electric vehicle on display in a showroom in Pakistan. BYD accounted for roughly 90 per cent of […]

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