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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) bank has urged China and India to agree a write-down of their loans as soon as possible.The post Central Bank Governor urges China and India to reduce Sri Lanka’s debts soon appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor asks critics to provide alternatives (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF to visit Sri Lanka in late August for staff-level agreement – Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to announce debt restructuring strategy in April – Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka faces shutdown without stable Government – Central Bank Governor warns (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s central bank has urged China and India to agree a write-down of their loans as soon as possible. The crisis-hit Indian Ocean state defaulted on its debt repayments and negotiated a $2.9bn (£2.4bn) bailout. But the International Monetary Fund will not release the cash until China and India first agree to reduce Sri […]
- UN condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine ahead of anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- Air India in record order for new planes (Category: Breaking News)
- China refuses to condemn Russia’s Ukraine invasion during G20 deadlock (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s Xi to meet Putin in Moscow next week (Category: Breaking News)
The three-year-old is losing weight and complains of leg pains and weakness. The doctor's diagnosis is clear - Nitisha is underfed and malnourished.The post Sri Lanka’s children go hungry as food prices soar appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka to appoint cost of living committee chaired by president as prices soar (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist arrivals soar with record November (Category: Business)
- Asian shares soar after ECB, focus on payrolls (Category: Business)
- Where poor students soar (Category: USA, California)
Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars.The post Two Australians arrested for bribing Sri Lankan officials for lucrative contracts appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Two Australians arrested for bribing Sri Lankan officials for lucrative contracts (Category: Breaking News)
- Lucrative infrastructure projects: Australians charged for bribing Sri Lankan officials (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Rupee further depreciates against U.S. Dollar (Category: Breaking News)
- Main suspect in trafficking of Sri Lankan women in Oman arrested (Category: Breaking News)
Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars. Australian police arrested the pair last month after a decade-long investigation spanning several countries. The men, aged 67 and 71, worked for a company which has been accused of misconduct in South Asian countries. They are […]
- Three dead, six injured after US school shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- At least 60 killed after suspension bridge in Gujarat collapsed (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 120 dead in Indonesia football riot (Category: Breaking News)
- Wave of explosions hit Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya’s Unfinished Business (Category: Breaking News)
Hotels charge in US dollars, I do not see why we cannot
- Peg Defence (Category: Business)
- Regional Clearing (Category: Business)
- Billion Target (Category: Business)
- Forex Trend (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka central government debt falls to US$32.4bn from US$50.5 billion rupees
- A rosy update (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka net government debt soars in 2021 despite zero foreign deficit finance (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s EPF hit by US$6.5bn hair cut after soft-peg collapse (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank US$4.0bn in debt by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The ACF Commission: To Exorcise Ghosts Of Truth That Continued To Haunt Regardless appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Commission Of Inquiry: Testify At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- Kapila Jayasekera: Killer-In-Chief In Both ACF & Five Students Cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Looking To The Past: The Political Cultivation Of An Obliging Judiciary To Violate Rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Antics Of Rajapaksa’s Viceroy In The Volatile North (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
Pure floating exchange rates and a fixed exchange rate with a currency boards are free-market mechanisms
- Steve Hanke on currency boards and flawed pegs amid Sri Lanka meltdown (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka needs quick fiscal reforms, political stability: Central Bank union (Category: Breaking News)
- Thailand currency crisis’ central bank policy error explained to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka gets “good response” from envoys, may take 3 months to finalize: PM (Category: Breaking News)
assport of a British national, Kayleigh Fraser, who had posted about the protests on social media, seized
- Rights group accuses Sri Lanka of cracking down on dissent (Category: Breaking News)
- Rights group says Sri Lanka harassed, intimidated protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe needs to end crackdown – Human Rights Watch (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president rejects claims of protester crackdown amid continuous arrest (Category: Breaking News)
A leading human rights group has accused the new Sri Lanka Government of cracking down on dissent. The Sri Lankan Government is using emergency regulations to harass and arbitrarily detain activists seeking political reform and accountability for the country’s economic crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. Since Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as President on July […]
- Ranil urged to adopt measures to protect basic rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil urged to end use of counter terror laws on protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW says economic crisis puts rights in Sri Lanka in peril (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka accused of misusing Official Secrets Act (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post An Open Letter & Appeal To The IMF appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Open Letter To Mr. President Ranil Wickremesinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- Open Letter To The President: Mr. President, It’s Not Too Late! (Category: Breaking News)
- An Open Letter To All Parliamentarians (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President (Category: Breaking News)
But it is a tool and a means only, not the ultimate goal. It is simply compulsion and coercion; it is the police power.
- Sri Lanka police on lookout for suspects who damaged president’s office (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President asked by protestors to seek reasons for agitation, not make arrests (Category: Breaking News)
- Protestors march to Sri Lanka prime minister’s office facing police tear gas (Category: Breaking News)
- Protestors storm Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s Office despite police resistance (Category: Breaking News)
Overnight clean money volumes down to zero, sporadic repo activity
- Sri Lanka, world suffers terribly from Fed’s accidental discovery: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is wrong scapegoat expat workers over Undiyal: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka economic recovery, a common minimum program (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka banks cut foreign borrowings, see more deposit dollarization (Category: Breaking News)
By Michael Rowand As Sri Lankan protesters stormed the presidential residence in Colombo, the Chinese Embassy released no statements and did not tweet. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered no comment until Monday afternoon, well behind others such as India, the European Union, and the United States. The French Embassy even retweeted a tweet […]
- Chinese role in the Sri Lankan crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- China a mute spectator as Sri Lanka’s political upheaval poses long-term implications for Beijing (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should prevent Chinese vessel from reaching Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
- As Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Chinese Projects, India Moves to Recover Influence (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News 1st); The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says that the progress on getting an international bailout package depends on political stability in the country. Speaking to the BBC Sinhala Service, Dr. Weerasinghe stated that it is also impossible
- Lanka enjoying fruits of peace - PM (Category: Breaking News)
- New era for Sri Lankan economy, says CIMB (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka a land of promise with enhanced opportunities for Japanese co-operation (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA EXPECTS FURTHER FOREIGN INVESTMENTS (Category: Breaking News)
The Governor of Sri Lanka’s Central Bank, Nandalal Weerasinghe, has warned that the country may shut down if no stable government is formed soon.The post Sri Lanka faces shutdown without stable Government – Central Bank Governor warns appeared first on ONLANKA News - Sri Lanka News - Sri Lanka News Live and Breaking News Today.
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor asks critics to provide alternatives (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Chief says Money printing has drastically reduced in 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka faces shutdown without stable govt- CBSL governor warns (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce new central bank law, inflation target (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Aragalaya & Morality (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Unarmed but not peaceful (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka could have avoided its current economic turmoil if it had gone to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout sooner, the country’s central bank governor says. P Nandalal Weerasinghe told BBC Newsnight that the delay in seeking outside help was a mistake. The country
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting in US (Category: Breaking News)
- China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Is Bowing Out! What About Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Playing Games With Constitutional Reforms appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Senseless Killing Of 19A By 21A! (Category: Breaking News)
- 22nd Amendment: People Are Never Fooled (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Need To Appoint An independent President & Its Process (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay Alive appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Niemöller’s Quote Resonating With Aragalaya’s Aim For Racial Unity! (Category: Breaking News)
- The Operation Successful But The Patient Died? Not If People Stand Up! (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Perilous Authoritarian Alternative (Category: Breaking News)
“After I speak to [friendly nations], there will be help coming from there. They won’t allow people to starve.”
- SL must help toward peaceful settlement in the Maldives: Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Easter Attacks: Sri Lanka to seek assistance of UK Government & intelligence over Easter Sunday ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil to cut short UK visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka leader says IMF agreement pushed back after unrest (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post What’s Next, After The Rajapaksa Clan & #GotaGoGama Are Both Gone? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Brutalities Against Protesters (Category: Breaking News)
How focused and efficacious are the current infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka, executed through a public investments programme (PIP)? Take for instance the Chinese funded Norochcholai coal fired power plant, built after obtaining a commercial loan from China, and its subsequent breakdowns resulting in power cuts that will stifle growth and earnings, on top of ...
- Investment Deals (Category: Business)
- Power Projection (Category: Business)
- India tops investments in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- BOI web site removes reference to ‘No FDI nationalisation’ (Category: Business)
A top level Sri Lanka Ports, Trade and Logistics conference and exhibition will be held from 10 to 11 July at Colombo Hilton, organised by industry specialists Seatrade. The multi-stakeholder sponsored and endorsed event will showcase commercial opportunities and development of South Asia’s new maritime hub and logistics centre – Colombo and Sri Lanka. Seatrade ...
- Top Sri Lanka Ports, Trade & Logistics conference and expo starts (Category: Business)
- Colombo conference on ‘Sri Lanka Ports Trade and Logistics’, an unqualified success (Category: Business)
- State-run SLPA wins three prestigious Seatrade awards (Category: Business)
“The demoralising, destructive character of the patriotic degeneracy….” Sebastian Haffner (Germany: Jekyll and Hyde) By Tisaranee Gunasekara It was the Oxford Debacle all over again. The events were drearily predicable. Sri Lanka, like every Commonwealth nation, received an invitation for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II. President Rajapaksa, unlike most Commonwealth leaders,...
- Protest stage in London against the arrival of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- President leaves for UK (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth parliamentary session to be held in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- President cancels speech in London over protest fears (Category: Business)
The NSB/TFC deal and the General Recent events in Sri Lanka have reconfirmed that though seemingly power may be unlimited, there are in reality constraints which limit the options those in power have. As proof of this fundamental reality, the first event is the purchase by the National Savings Bank (NSB), a State-owned entity, whose ...
- NSB conspicuous by its silence on allegations over TFC buy (Category: Business)
- Not-so-ugly truth of the NSB saga! (Category: Business)
- NSB-TFC deal’s stench spreads! (Category: Business)
- NSB Head gives quit notice (Category: Business)
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