by Garvin Karunaratne We have little say about restrictions being imposed on us. Somehow we have to stand on our feet. In the far past we did have programmes that tackled poverty and enabled people to produce what we need. However today no attempt is being made to help people to become entrepreneurs, to make […]

UK GOV Sri Lankan garment sector set to benefit following reforms to simplify imports from developing countries like Sri Lanka. On 10 July, the UK government unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries like Sri Lanka. Upgrades to the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) make it easier for businesses to trade […]

Source: Xinhua Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 12, 2025. (Xinhua/Cheng Yiheng) KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 (Xinhua) — China is willing to work with Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the conduct of negotiations for the reduction of reciprocal  tariffs, the U.S. authorities have proposed some restrictive measures  on trading with China, but Sri Lanka has declined to do so in  principle in conformity with its neutral foreign policy, the Daily  Mirror learns.    Sri Lanka is among the countries […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the IMF focuses heavily on external debt restructuring to restore debt sustainability. However, external debt restructuring alone is insufficient because a large portion of debt service obligations arise from currency depreciation of external debt thereby inflating domestic debt, including treasury bills and bonds. […]

ලංකාවෙබ් කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය විසින් රචිතයි ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ පොරොන්දු: යථාර්ථය හා ඉටුකළ හැකිභාවය පිළිබඳ සම්පූර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක් ආරම්භය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලන පද්ධතිය තුළ මැතිවරණ කාලය එන විට, ජනතාවට විවිධ ආකාරයේ ආකර්ෂණීය පොරොන්දු ලබාදීම සාමාන්‍ය වටපිටාවක් වී තිබේ. මෙවන් පොරොන්දු බහුතරයක් අතිශයින් ජනප්‍රිය වුවත්, ඒවා ප්‍රායෝගික වශයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වීම පිළිබඳව විශේෂ සැලකිල්ලක් දැක්විය යුතුය. මේ ලිපියේ අරමුණ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror This is nothing but the contradiction between theory and practice. When the NPP was in the Opposition it was the strongest critic of the government regardless of which party was in power, putting the ruling party always on the defensive. Criticising is always easy Director CID Shani Abeysekera So long as […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that, as a result of recent discussions with the United States, the previously imposed reciprocal tariff rate on Sri Lanka was successfully reduced from 44% to 30%.  He further emphasised that ongoing dialogue will continue in order to secure additional concessions. The President stated that the objective of […]

Shenali D Waduge The LGBTQIA+ ideology is not a natural or moral evolution — it is a Western-exported trend, heavily promoted by corporate agendas & hired media, foreign-funded activist networks, and Big Pharma & used by governments as a new geopolitical tool to collapse & weaken an enemy nation’s society. The objective is to confuse society and undermine national […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge and Lt Colonel Ivan Welch, PhD, US Army Combat trauma has affected soldiers throughout history, from ancient times to the modern day. The psychophysical effects of combat have been recorded since the early days of human civilization. From the time of Homer’s ancient story of the battle between the Trojans and the Greeks (1200 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka experienced its worst economic crisis in 2022. This crisis stemmed from poor economic management, including excessive fiscal deficits, and the loss of access to international financial markets. As a part of its recovery efforts, the government sought a USD 3 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme from the International […]

Courtesy Fiji Times EXPANSION plans in Fiji by Sri Lankan conglomerate Aitken Spence PLC through its subsidiary company Elpitiya Plantations has finally made progress since initially exploring opportunities in the country last year. Aitken Spence PLC, a prominent Sri Lankan conglomerate specialising in the agricultural sector, was exploring initial plans to introduce cutting-edge agricultural technologies […]

Courtesy fibre2fashion Insights US President Donald Trump has expanded his aggressive trade policy by adding Sri Lanka to a growing list of nations subject to sweeping new tariffs. In a letter, Trump recently announced that beginning August 1, 2025, all goods imported into the United States from Sri Lanka will be subjected to a 30 […]

by Arundathie Abeysingh Courtesy PIME Asia News The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is warning that debt is the main factor of vulnerability in the population. The causes include the 2022 economic crisis, rising inflation, unemployment, and unsustainable interest rates. Some people are forced to sell their furniture to pay higher prices for food and […]

By Uditha Jayasinghe Courtesy uk.finance.yahoo.com COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s garments sector is pinning its hopes on further discussions with the U.S. government after Donald Trump’s administration’s 30% tariff on the nation has placed it at a disadvantage to some of its biggest rivals. The United States has accounted for about 40% of Sri Lanka’s apparel […]

අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) නීතීඥ, සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදය සිංහල භාෂා පාඨයට ගැලපෙන ලෙස නිවැරදිව එහි ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා පරිවර්තන පාඨය නොපවතින බව වරලත් ඉංජිනේරුවරයෙකු වන හර්ෂ කුමාර් සූරියආරච්චි මහතා විසින් පෙන්වා දී තිබූ අතර මේ දක්වා එකී පරිවර්තන දෝෂය නිවැරදි කිරීමට විධායකය විසින් ක්‍රියාකර නොතිබීම හේතුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම […]

Mehedi Hasan In late May 2025, Tokyo announced that it would welcome one lakh (100,000) skilled workers from Bangladesh over the next five years. This initiative will be formalized through memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower, Employment, and Training (BMET) and Japanese partners. By 2040, Japan’s labour shortage is expected to […]

CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA   Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 10 (Daily Mirror) – Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara today accused the government of mishandling tariff negotiations with the United States, claiming Sri Lanka had failed to secure meaningful benefits from the recent tariff reductions announced by U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking at a media briefing in Colombo, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 10 (Daily Mirror) – The United States yesterday”s announcement of a 30% tariff on Sri Lankan imports marks a significant blow to the country’s export sector, with estimated losses projected between USD 1.2 to 1.5 billion over the next 12 months. However, former Ambassador Kananathan has emphasized that this […]

ලංකාවෙබ් කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය විසින් රචිතයි කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය පක්ෂ්ග්රාහික නොවනනිසා “ලබන වසර පහ තුළ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය නැවත යථා තත්ත්වයට පත් කළ හැකිද?” යනුවෙන් අපි කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධියෙන් විමසා බැලුවෙමු: කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය දෙන ලද පිළිතුර මෙහි දැක්වේ ඔව්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය ලබන අවුරුදු පහකදී නැවත ආරෝග්‍යමත් කළ හැකිය. එය එතරම් සම්භාව්‍ය නොවේ — ඒ සඳහා සවිමත් ව්‍යාපාරික […]

ලංකාවෙබ් කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය විසින් රචිතයි වෛද්‍ය පහසුකම් භාවිතයෙන් අයුතු ආකාරයට ලාභ ලබාගැනීම – ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අතිචාරයකි ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වෛද්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රය බහුතරයක් විශ්වාසයට හා කරුණාවට පදනම්ව ක්‍රියාත්මක වුවද, නවීන යුගයේදී විශේෂයෙන්ම පෞද්ගලික සන්සුන් රෝහල් සහ වෛද්‍යවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු විසින් අයුතු ආකාරයට ලාභ සෙවීමේ ප්‍රවණතාවක් දක්නට ලැබේ. රෝගීන්ට අත්‍යවශ්‍ය නොවන පරීක්ෂණ, විශේෂඥයන්ට යොමුකිරීම් සහ අධික ඖෂධ සෙට් […]

Asoka Bandarage I returned to the U.S. from Cuba just a few hours before Donald Trump signed a memorandum on June 30, 2025, tightening the long-standing U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. The memorandum includes a statutory ban on U.S. tourism to the neighboring island. Despite a long fascination for the island nation, I did not […]

Prof. Hudson McLean One with rich arable agricultural land, tea, rubber, coconut, round the Island fisheries, and the other a muddy newly independent nation, grappling with poverty, high unemployment, and a lack of natural resources. Independence Gained: 4th Feb 1948  the population of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was approximately 7.1 million 9th Aug 1965  the population ofSingapore in 1965 […]

Anuradha Chenoy — July 7, 2025 China may see a regional vacuum with a non-functional #SAARC, but it is unlikely to succeed in filling the gap with another regional entity. China and Pakistan are reportedly trying to create a new regional bloc that can be an alternative to the increasingly dysfunctional South Asian Association for […]

Courtesy Fibre2Fashion Insights US President Donald Trump has issued a new round of tariff letters to seven more countries, escalating the administration’s sweeping trade overhaul. In letters shared via screenshots on Truth Social, tariffs were announced for Sri Lanka, Philippines, Brunei, Moldova, Algeria, Iraq and Libya, with duties ranging from 20 to 30 per cent […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror U.S. President Donald Trump has added Sri Lanka to his growing list of trade targets, issuing a letter on Wednesday announcing a new 30% tariff on all imported goods from Sri Lanka.  The move comes as part of a broader tariff push aimed at multiple countries, with levies set to take […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Colombo, July 09 (Daily Mirror)- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake should have known that the network of those who launched Easter Sunday attacks function under the present government as well, Opposition MP Mujibur Rahman said today. The President recently said the government will have to subject […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana, Courtesy Daily mirror Colombo, July 9 (Daily Mirror) – Opposition Parliamentarian D. V. Chanaka told Parliament yesterday that the investigation into the Easter Sunday’s attack is being handled by two officers who had allegedly ignored over 90 prior warnings on the attack. Investigations on Easter Sunday attacks are handled […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, විශේෂ විමර්ශන ඒකකය විසින් ”ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය වෙත ආනයනය කරන ලද බහාලූම් 323 ක් නිසි පරීක්ෂාවකින් තොරව ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුව මඟින් නිදහස් කිරීම” සම්බන්ධව ලැබී ඇති පැමිණිල්ලකට අදාළව ප්‍රකාශයක් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, හිටපු අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතාව අද දින එම ඒකකයට  කැඳවා තිබිණි. ඒ […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Sri Lanka has to navigate its foreign policy within turbulent waters considering its pivotal location in the Indian ocean. Being the neighbor to India, a regional power which some consider an emerging superpower, and which shows a kind of political bi polarity, with shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels, often resulting […]