By NESHELLA PERERA Millions of less affluent Sri Lankans works in the Middle East are sending money home to keep the economy afloat while the more educated who hold higher post in developed countries keep money stashed elsewhere, Labour Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said. “The most amount of foreign exchange generated for Sri Lanka comes from the […]

by Sushant Sareen The good news is that there is some new evidence that despite all the adventurism and brinkmanship, the top echelons of the Pakistan Army have, by and large, remained rational and not radicalised players. The bad news is that the Pakistan Army’s bluster and grandstanding have injected exaggerated notions of its military […]

Friday 28th April, 2023 Ruling party MPs and their Opposition counterparts never see eye to eye on anything other than ways and means of feathering their nests. The national interest does not figure, at all, in their scheme of things. So, it is only natural that they are clashing over the IMF bailout, which is […]

By Sanath Nanayakkare Leaving aside the battle for grabbing political power, a crucial time has come for Sri Lanka’s parliament to work together to arrive at a consensus on the IMF’s Extended Fund facility approved for Sri Lanka as well as collaborating on a common framework for restructuring the sovereign’s debt with bilateral creditors and […]

Draconian Patriot Act exposed By Daya Gamage Foreign Service National Political Specialist (ret) U.S. Department of State Six weeks after the September 11 attacks on American soil, the U.S. Congress passed the “USA/Patriot Act,” nation’s hurried surveillance laws that expanded the government’s authority to check on its own citizens, while simultaneously reducing checks and ...

As war rages intensified in Sudan, France on Monday evacuated 388 people from 28 countries, including Indian nationals. Evacuation from the capital, Khartoum, has proved intensely dangerous since conflict erupted over the weekend between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, New York Times reported. But after days hunkered inside their […]

China has been the world’s factory for over four decades – but that could be changing soon, as even Chinese firms are moving supply chains out of the country. While Western countries have already been doing this since 2018 after then-president Donald Trump launched a trade war against China, home-grown companies from the manufacturing giant […]

Wednesday 26th April, 2023 Former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris, MP, has faulted the IMF for paying scant attention to the high incidence of corruption in Sri Lanka. He has struck a responsive chord with the public. When the current dispensation stopped dilly-dallying and asked for IMF assistance, many Sri […]

Sri Lanka is caught up in the China-Quad battle. The Indian participation in the ‘Quad’ project has further complicated matters for Sri Lanka. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ouster, last July, following a US-backed protest campaign that overwhelmed the seemingly invincible administration, underlines the urgent need for a thorough examination of external interventions. By Shamindra Ferdinando The [...

By Jehan Perera Slowly but surely the ruling party is beginning to reassert itself.  An indication is the removal of Prof G L Peiris from the chairmanship of the ruling party.  In the aftermath of the economic collapse last year he has been one of the few members from the SLPP to have adopted a […]

More than three years after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, the source of the virus appears to be emerging. The laboratory leak theory, which was initially considered a conspiracy theory, is gaining more and more traction among the scientific community worldwide as the natural source clues that have finally emerged recently, deliberately withheld […]

By Jamil Anderlini BRUSSELS — Just when you thought Europe’s China policy could not be more disunited, the two most powerful countries of the European Union are now also at odds over whether to revive a moribund investment agreement with the authoritarian superpower. For France, resuscitating the so-called EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) is […]

Karl Marx had said that the society is divided on the basis of income into the rich and the poor and that the latter will get together and get rid of the rich. That did not happen, for Marx had not reckoned the influence of the middle class which stood as a buffer between the […]

Maputo [Mozambique], April 15 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday reiterated that India and Mozambique have a lot in common, including a shared vision for progress and prosperity at the 5th Joint Commission Meeting between the two countries. “Our bilateral cooperation spans across a wide spectrum of areas, including trade and investment, agriculture, […]

By Yucel Tanay In Turkey, which is accepted as the unshakable stronghold of Turkishness by the Turks of the world, activities related to the ancient Turkish homeland of East Turkestan were banned in certain periods. During this period, the head of the Anasol-D Coalition and the man of the system, ANAP leader Mesut Yılmaz was […]