To the outside world, China is a monolith, a dictatorship brooking new opposition whether in word or deed. It is acknowledged as an economic power and a technological giant which has also successfully eradicated mass poverty in a short...
Colombo, August 20: As usual, the resolution on Sri Lanka at the September session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is expected to list the many shortcomings in the island nation’s approach to the question of human rights...
Colombo, August 15:
In 1991, the Indian economy was in dire straits, in some ways like what Sri Lanka has been going through in the past year. Unlike Sri Lanka, India did not default on external loans but was on...
According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), one billion people across the world send and receive remittances. Every year, 200 million migrant workers send money home, and 800 million people (in households of four, on an average)...
Colombo, August 10:
The current disturbance in India-Sri Lanka relations caused by the proposed docking of the sophisticated Chinese military survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port is but the latest in a long series of hiccups in Indo-Lankan...
In his address to the Advocata Institute in Colombo last week, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said: “I think we need to seriously consider getting a report on using nuclear energy in Sri Lanka. The more energy you have,...
Colombo
The proposed docking of the Chinese survey and tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port from August 11 to 17, has touched off a low-intensity conflict between India and China putting Sri Lanka in a cleft stick.
Sri Lanka...
In his paper entitled Maritime Strategy for National Development: Sri Lankan perspective published in 2015 in the Proceedings of the 8 th., International Research Conference held at the Kotelawala Defense Academy, Com. Rohan Joseph of the Sri Lanka Navy strongly urged the Sri...
The US-China standoff over House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan can be compared with the conflict between the US and Russia over Ukraine. There are similarities as well as differences between the two episodes.
Both conflicts...
In May 2021, Bangladesh extended a US$ 200 million currency swap facility to Sri Lanka to help the latter face a severe foreign exchange shortage. But a year down the line, Bangladesh itself is seeking an IMF bailout package...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo July 24: July has been a significant month in the recent history of Sri Lanka. Some of the major events which determined the trajectory of the island in recent times took place in July. The dramatic and...
The United States has been a functioning democracy since 1787, improving its quality from time to time with the evolution of its society and culture. In the modern post-colonial era, the US has taken upon itself the task of...
