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Dozens of state-owned Sri Lankan companies employing tens of thousands of people could be restructured or closed as part of an IMF bailout of the bankrupt country, with the country's airline top of the list for reform.The post Turbulence ahead: Airline on the block in Sri Lanka reforms appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- SriLankan Airlines obtains Government’s approval to recruit foreign pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s airline posts US $ 525 million annual loss (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan CEO believes ‘worst is over’, expects $50 Million profit next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka airline boss says ‘don’t be a CEO during Covid’ (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
- Downward Spiralling Economy: Increased Govt Spending & Reduced Revenue (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Need To Restrain The Power Of Shadow Finance appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- End Casino Capitalism: Sri Lanka To Join The Global Minimum Tax Agreement (Category: Breaking News)
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Debterioration Of Nations Social Security & Protection (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka: Strategizing Economic Recovery appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka: No Light Yet At The End Of The Tunnel (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Surviving The 75th Year Of Independence (Category: Breaking News)
- President RW’s Priority In 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics Of Protests (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka said it held a productive meeting with its bilateral creditors, which include India and China, on Thursday as the country looks to restructure its debt and carve a path out of its worst financial crisis in decades.The post Sri Lanka holds debt restructuring talks with bilateral creditors
- Sri Lanka’s talks with creditors ongoing, unaware of specific deals – IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s creditor nations to meet despite uncertainty on China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka postpones debt restructuring talks, hopes for IMF deal in December (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Downward Spiralling Economy: Increased Govt Spending & Reduced Revenue (Category: Breaking News)
- Taking Dictatorial Steps To Control Public Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Hundreds of people marched in Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo on Wednesday protesting against higher taxes, inflation and alleged state-led repression as the country struggles to emerge from its worst financial crisis in seven decades.The post Hundreds march in crisis-hit Sri Lanka protesting tax
- Police fire tear gas at protestors in Maradana (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could tip back to chaos if six-time Prime Minister voted President (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s government employees to protest demanding Rs. 20,000 salary hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Police secures court order to block NPP protest planned for today (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Two Men, Two Cultures appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Perilous Authoritarian Alternative (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP’s Popularity & Ranil’s IMF Prop (Category: Breaking News)
- President Should Be Responsible! (Category: Breaking News)
Tax evasion: By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday (25) said the Finance Ministry owed an explanation regarding its failure to regulate chartered accountants to increase state revenue. The former minister said so when The Island asked whether the Finance Ministry had cared to verify accusations he made in Parliament on 20 Sept., about […]
- Govt. MP slams Finance Ministry over gaping holes in tax collection system (Category: Breaking News)
- Corrupt elements use Parliament, Finance Ministry to evade taxes (Category: Breaking News)
- Head of Economic Oversight Committee to move CIABOC against revenue authorities (Category: Breaking News)
- Corrupt elements use Parliament, Finance Ministry to evade taxes (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka approved legislation on Tuesday to let companies from oil-producing nations import and sell fuel as it attempts to cope with a steep oil bill that deepened its worst financial crisis in decades.The post Sri Lanka approves law to liberalize petroleum imports appeared first on Sri Lanka
- Price of 92 Octane Petrol increased in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Fuel consumption in Sri Lanka drops 50% in December (Category: Breaking News)
- First two Sinopec fuel shipments to arrive in Sri Lanka in August (Category: Breaking News)
- National Fuel Pass to be introduced today in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post IMF Must Become More Than Just A Debt Collector For Private Creditors appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Some creditors want to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt without China (Category: Breaking News)
- The Paris Club, Dollar Debt Colonialism & Asia’s New “Donors”: Reforming The International Aid A... (Category: Breaking News)
- China holds key to Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring to ease economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
International, calls for accountability for the island nation’s leadership for its worst financial crisis [...
- Supreme Court finds Rajapaksa brothers guilty over economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil diaspora call on more countries to sanction GR, MR (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil Rajapaksa likely to step down as an MP (Category: Breaking News)
- Fears over crisis mount as GR, MR stay put (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's central bank is likely to maintain interest rates on Thursday in an effort to get a grip on inflation which has remained stubbornly high despite a sharp contraction in the crisis-hit economy.The post Sri Lanka Central Bank to hold rates as inflation worries persist appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka to hold rates as inflation slows slightly, focus on IMF bailout (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka threatens administrative measures over high market interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank holds policy interest rates at current levels (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank to hold rates as inflation stays high (Category: Breaking News)
A key measure of Sri Lanka's consumer inflation surged to an annual record 69.8% in September, official data showed on Friday, highlighting the challenge for the central bank as the island reels under its worst financial crisis in seven decades.The post Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate surges
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate rises to 1.5% in October (Category: Breaking News)
- Rising food prices drive Sri Lanka inflation up to 4.2% in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 4% in August (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 54.2% in January (Category: Breaking News)
Unlike the financial crisis of 2008, the economic levers alone were insufficient to stimulate global economic recovery in 2022 as what had led to the current crisis was the consequences of evolving geopolitics, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Thursday at the ADB’s 55th annual meeting. “
- A Sri Lankan initiative to meet global challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- RW says great power rivalries and geopolitics emerging threat to Third World (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese Ambassador outlines numerous benefits reaped by Sri Lanka from BRI (Category: Breaking News)
- Milinda blames halfhearted economic reforms over the years for current crisis (Category: Breaking News)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is ready to provide further financial support to Sri Lanka, a top official of the regional lender said on Tuesday, as the Indian Ocean nation battles its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades.The post Asian Development Bank vows more help for crisis-hit Sri Lanka appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka seeks Asian Development Bank support in digitalization, agriculture (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB approves $350 Million for Sri Lanka economic stabilization programme (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB chief commends Sri Lanka s efforts, pledges further support (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President proposes ADB to establish International University on Climate Change in Sri... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Appellants Asked To Give Affidavits To The RTI Commission As First Step To Prosecution Under RTI Act appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka’s RTI ‘Up In The Air’ In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s RTI ‘Up In The Air’ In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
- RTI Commission Directs Information Release On Massive Marine Damage Caused By The X-Press Pearl ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Ministers, Tri-Services/Police, Corporates Owe Massive Amount In Electricity ... (Category: Breaking News)
BY Consultant Family Physician, Dr. S. Kumaran, and Viduni Basnayake This article describes the experiences of a novel, evidence-based approach that involves patients, and their family members, in delivering health care, providing medical education, and conducting research, at a primary care institution, called a Family Health Care Centre. The Northern Province, in Sri Lanka, is […]
- UNFPA appeals for $9 million to meet urgent needs in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka decides to continue to actively participate in China’s BRI (Category: Breaking News)
- Global Cricket Club Junior Championship kicks off (Category: Breaking News)
- St. Sebastian’s and Sangamitta Balika clinch ‘Super A’ team titles (Category: Breaking News)
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has called for a strong resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. Issuing a statement, the GTF said that for the Tamil people who have suffered enormously during the war, and indeed for the victims of human rights violations from all communities who are […]
- OHCHR says all Sri Lankans have right of freedom of expression (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tells UN not to interfere in China’s domestic issues (Category: Breaking News)
- New resolution on Sri Lanka tabled in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan calls for meaningful reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertiliser and fuel shortages during the nation's most severe financial crisis in more than seven decades.The post Sri Lanka’s economy shrinks 8.4
- Worker remittance income up in August amid Government incentives (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka economy shrinks 8.4-pct in 2Q amid currency crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President urges unity to safeguard economic stability amid IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. presses Sri Lanka to advance human rights amid economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, September 15: Nearly half of Darjeeling’s tea estates in India’s West Bengal state, numbering around 35-40, are up for sale as planters are unable to run the operations smoothly in the absence of international buyers from Europe and Japan who used to buy good volumes of […]
- Leaf Fortunes (Category: Business)
- Guardian report harshly critical of working conditions on tea estates (Category: Breaking News)
- Bogawantalawa Tea Estates PLC presents World’s First Climate-Positive Teas at the Global Dubai T... (Category: Breaking News)
- Unveiling the True Pioneers of Tea in Sri Lanka: The Rothschild Brothers (Category: Breaking News)
Financial advisory group Lazard (LAZ.N) has started talks with India, China and Japan on restructuring Sri Lanka's debt, a spokesman for the Sri Lanka government said on Tuesday, as the crisis-hit island nation seeks an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout.The post Lazard in talks with China, India, Japan on Sri Lanka debt appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka -...
- Lazard initiates talks with India, China Japan on restructuring Sri Lanka debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to organize Sri Lanka creditors’ meeting by year-end – report (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka already started ‘low level’ talks with India, China on debt restructuring – President (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka should improve human rights and strengthen institutions to tackle the humanitarian challenges that have sprung from its worst financial crisis in seven decades, a top U.N. Human Rights official said on Monday.The post U.N. presses Sri Lanka to advance human rights amid economic crisis
- The President kicked off Visi Vara Jaya Nada (Category: Breaking News)
- ÂBuddhaloka Sadhu Nada Seela Samadhi Program held at Shangri-La green (Category: Breaking News)
- “Buddhaloka Sadhu Nada Seela Samadhi Program” held at Shangri-La green (Category: Breaking News)
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By R. R. M. Lilani The International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition of pressuring creditors to restructure their loans awarded to Sri Lanka has not yet taken effect, with China remaining silent on the issue, and the IMF bailout discussions still remains at the staff level of agreement. There is also a stalemate over the IMF […]
- China only observer in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring platform (Category: Breaking News)
- Government to unveil domestic debt restructuring strategy this week (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF ready to support Sri Lanka’s discussions with bondholders (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka’s economic woes have not cast a shadow over its complex foreign relations. On August 16, the southern port of Hambantota welcomed the Yuan Wang 5, a research vessel from China. While Colombo had asked for a deferral of the visit, it eventually relented and allowed the ship to dock until […]
- Milinda pushes for Indo-Lanka strategic-level partnership (Category: Breaking News)
- “A friend in need is a friend indeed”: Sri Lanka’s praise for India (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka may allow Indian rupee to be used in local transactions (Category: Breaking News)
- First things first (Category: Breaking News)
For the first time in parliamentary history, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has issued a dire warning to Parliament and political parties therein over the responsibility on their part to ensure financial stability and discipline. Their failure to do so would trigger public protests again, they were told. There hadn’t been such a public […]
- All praise for Lanka’s saviours! (Category: Breaking News)
- Shocking claim in House: Bandula reveals how sugar importers, their henchmen trapped Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Herath: COPE dissolution must not hinder probe into economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- The fall of Pohottuwa govt. (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Monday a constitutional amendment bill trimming presidential powers is expected to become law in a couple of weeks.The post Sri Lanka bill to trim president’s powers likely to become law within weeks – Minister appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News Updates - Sri Lanka News.
- USAID Administrator Samantha Power meets Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President leaves for Germany (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President to leave for Japan today (October 25) (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President leaves for UK to attend Queen’s funeral (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry says a constitutional amendment bill trimming presidential powers is expected to become law in a couple of weeks. “The new amendment will reduce presidential powers and bring back participatory governance,” Sabry told reporters at the foreign ministry. The bill, which will require a two-thirds majority in the house to become law, […]
- Rights group seeks arrest of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Singapore (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa expected to go to Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
- India eases Russian oil buying in July, boosts Saudi imports: Trade (Category: Breaking News)
- WTO fails to secure Sri Lanka’s support for food security deals (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post End Casino Capitalism: Sri Lanka To Join The Global Minimum Tax Agreement appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Need To Restrain The Power Of Shadow Finance (Category: Breaking News)
- Liberal Or Edible Economics: Global Disorder Worst In A Century (Category: Breaking News)
- Privatisation Of Public Assets Under Neoliberal Corporate Capitalism: Modern Evil (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) and Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) recently declared corruption as the root cause of Sri Lanka’s current political and economic crisis. The declaration was made in a statement titled, “SLID and TISL launch ‘Business Against Corruption’ Initiative” issued to the media after the two organisations […]
- Of Elections, Bond Scams & Money Politics: The Anatomy Of Default @75 (Category: Breaking News)
- Treasury bond scams: SJB drags Lotus Tower into ‘conflict’ as SLPP attacks ‘footnote’ gang (Category: Breaking News)
- Massive Corruption Scams Rock The Land Of The Mahatma (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka accelerates financial literacy drive amid scams (Category: Breaking News)
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