Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): In three separate cases, the US government has charged 13 individuals, including members of China’s security and intelligence apparatus and their agents, for alleged efforts to unlawfully exert influence in the United States for the benefit of their government. “As these cases demonstrate, the government of China sought to interfere […]

Monday 31st October, 2022 Some dissident SLPP MPs have warned that the government will fail to secure the passage of the upcoming budget and collapse as a result if the latter seeks to bulldoze its way through without heeding the views of the Opposition and the interests of the public. The SLPP-UNP administration has only […]

Sri Lanka’s worst post-war economic crisis represents a major blow to the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts that were already hobbled by the COVID pandemic. However, the situation is also providing impetus to the work of academics that are using their knowledge to tackle the immediate fallout from […]

Faithful urged to refrain from making Christmas a ‘mere occasion for external celebrations’ Catholic bishops have urged devotees to provide medicines and dry rations for the needy at a time when Sri Lankan is mired in crises.The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL), in a statement released on Oct. 28, urged people to be […]

When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev went to Peking on an official visit in July-August 1958, chairman Mao Zedong chose an unusual venue for one of their meetings―his private swimming pool. “You look after Europe, and leave Asia to us,” Mao told Khrushchev. The Soviet leader, however, was not impressed. “No one has authorised us to […]

BY Ruchir Sharma As he embarks on a third term, Xi Jinping’s goal is to make China a mid-level developed country in the next decade, which implies that the economy will need to expand at a rate of around 5 per cent. But underlying trends — bad demographics, heavy debt and declining productivity growth — […]

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed (October 21) Pakistan from its “grey list” after more than four years. The multilateral watchdog said Islamabad would continue its work to further improve systems to combat terror financing and money laundering. At the conclusion of FATF’s two-day plenary meeting in Paris, the body’s president, T. Raja Kumar […]

The annual Asma Jahangir Conference in Pakistan, which took place in Lahore on October 22-23, saw some of the politicians and lawyers criticising the Army, alleging that the generals had taken billions of dollars to spread terrorism around the world. On the closing day of the conference on October 23, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) chairman […]

With the economic situation looking gloomy in Pakistan and the country being downgraded by Fitch and Moody, the International Monetary Fund has called on the nation to impose additional taxes worth PKR 600 billion, reported Express Tribune on Tuesday. The IMF has estimated that Pakistan may have to take additional revenue measures equal to 0.75% […]

The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLBFE) has issued a special statement regarding the Sri Lankan national who is among more than 150 people killed in a stampede at a Halloween event in central Seoul, South Korea.

Rupee average rose to as much as 1676.93 rupees a kilo in the first week of October.

A Sri Lankan male is among those who died in a crush as huge Halloween crowds surged into a narrow street in South Korea s capital, Seoul yesterday (Oct 29), according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Sabri.

Catholics in Bahrain hail mainly from the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka. (UCAN) Pope Francis is set to make a four-day visit to Bahrain, a journey that will make him the first pope to visit the Arab kingdom just off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf.The visit on Nov. 3-6 has two […]

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena states that the direct contribution of governors and provincial council officers and former public representatives is essential for the success of the rural economic revival and food security programme.

By Sadiq Amini In 1947, Pakistan emerged as an independent country in the wake of the Partition from India. That year, Afghanistan was the only country that voted against Pakistan’s admission to the United Nations. Since that time, the relationship between the two countries has remained strained as deep disputes remain. The undeclared war between […]

Investors wait for direction from 2023 budget presented to parliament on Nov. 14

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By Uditha Devapriya In my essay on H. D. Premaratne, I pointed out that Premaratne and Vasantha Obeyesekere were responsible for much of the changes that swept through the Sinhala cinema in the 1970s. Basically, they helped shatter the distinction that had prevailed until then between an artistic and a commercial cinema. Both directors focused […]