China on Tuesday released its “position paper” on global security. The comprehensive paper touches on all aspects of global security (except security from debt traps). But an aspect that should please many countries of the Global South, both big...
The latest Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) taken in January, shows political disarray in the country even as it battles a severe financial crisis marked by a continuing shortage of foreign exchange and sky-high prices of essential commodities.
The...
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Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi who has been targeting the government over China's aggression on the LAC in eastern Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that it is not the Congress leader but Prime Minister...
Sri Lanka has been subject to a great lie: the IMF solution! For close to a year now, the country has been implementing the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations with complete obedience. The sudden devaluation...
In September 1961, the UN was in danger. Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold had died in a tragic plane crash, and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, was insisting the organization acquire a new form of leadership that would doom it to...
Wanted: a new president for the World Bank, a venerable global institution with a mission to eradicate poverty. The successful candidate will have a plan for tackling the crisis in human development caused by the global pandemic. Climate-change deniers and...
Blinken warns that China may supply weapons to Russia
China refuses even to call Blinken-Wang talks a formal meeting
The US and China came to Germany last weekend looking to patch up a new rift opened by the uproar...
The International Monetary Fund is considering approving Sri Lanka’s bailout even without the formal assurance of debt-restructuring support from China, the nation’s biggest bilateral creditor, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Under a rarely used policy on lending into official arrears,...
Bangladesh may overtake China to be EU's biggest apparel source
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe firmly believes that no elections should be held in the island nation before the Presidential election in 2024 on the grounds that the country cannot afford elections in the midst of an unprecedented economic...
While expressing its concern regarding the attempts by state authorities to disrupt the local authorities' elections, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) reiterated that all those responsible for interfering with the electoral process must be dealt with in...
The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) has sent letters of demand to the government agencies and the organiser embroiled in a controversial music festival in Habarana to suspend the event.
The letters have been sent to the Conservator General of...
