e-Con e-News 01-07 February 2025 ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ * Is Rockefeller’s Exxon Getting Singapore  to Sell Stolen Venezuelan Oil to Sri Lanka?  e-Con e-News 01-07 February 2025 * At a recent collective bargaining negotiation, workers asked for a copy of the collective agreement in Sinhala. The company agreed to translate […]

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Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara It was a Saturday morning. Seated in the verandah of the Warakapola Rest House I was waiting for the arrival of the Hon Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dudley Senanayake. It was my task every Saturday and Sunday to meet him and be with him the entire day, for two […]

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සංගදාස අකුරුගොඩ 2009 මැයි මාසයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නිල වශයෙන් එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානය හමුදාමය වශයෙන් පරාජය කළද, ගෝලීය එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊය හා සම්බන්ධිත පිරිස්, හමුදාමය නොවන ක්‍රමවලින් ස්වාධීන ‘දෙමළ ඊලමක්’ නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ බෙදුම්වාදී අරමුණු ක්‍රියාත්මක කරමින් සිටී. ඒ සමග, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ 2015, 2022 සහ 2024 දි සිදුවූ ආණ්ඩු පෙරලිවලින් පසු, උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල  හමුදා ඉවත් කිරීම්, බුද්ධි අංශ පහත […]

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Dilrook Kannangara Generation Z (persons born between 1997 and 2012) are very special compared to other generations. They are highly influential around the world and have a few political, religious and business victims under their belt already. As most of them grew up with high tech, they are globally aware and better behaved compared to […]

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Courtesy Daily Mirror  Bloomberg report notes that wage disparities persist, with foreign workers often earning less than Russian nationals for similar roles By Nishel Fernando ​Russia is turning to South Asia, including Sri Lanka, to address a widening labour shortage that has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and long-term demographic shifts.  A report by […]

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Courtesy Hiru News The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has decided to launch an inquiry into a complaint filed by the suspended Deputy Secretary General of Parliament, Chaminda Kularatne. Kularatne was recently suspended from his post following a decision made by the Parliamentary Staff Advisory Council. The suspension reportedly stems from […]

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