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Cabraal has been prevented leaving the country from April 7
- President pays last respects to Central Bank Governor's mother (Category: Breaking News)
- President pays last respects to Central Bank Governor’s mother (Category: Breaking News)
- I'm not bother on Ranil's statement: Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Now is the time to invest in Sri Lanka' (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Justice For Bloody Monday appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- CC urged to halt second extension to retired IGP (Category: Breaking News)
- SC to take up fundamental rights cases against attack on anti-govt. protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka ex-minister says police chief, top govt official failed attack over unarmed protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- The National List & The House Of Duds (Category: Breaking News)
Forex shortage disrupt energy supplies to industries
- Sri Lanka exports up 10-pct up to August 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka exports rise 20-pct in June 2022 amid forex shortages (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka exports up 9-pct in May 2022, US up 25-pct, India 49-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka exports grows 11-pct up to September 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
By Nick Beake Billions of dollars of Chinese money are boosting some European economies – but some of the deals being struck have a catch. Critics say they are “debt traps”, where China gets to choose what happens if loans aren’t repaid. China insists it is a reliable investment partner – but it is also […]
- China urges EU to reach debt deal without delay (Category: Business)
- Beijing envoy warns Dutch of retaliation for chip curbs: ‘China won’t just swallow this’ (Category: Breaking News)
- China to keep investing in euro zone debt – China c.bank gov. (Category: Business)
- China signs forced labour treaties as Xinjiang scrutiny grows (Category: Breaking News)
A shortage of medicine caused by an economic crisis in Sri Lanka could soon cause deaths, doctors said, as hospitals are forced to postpone life-saving procedures for their patients because they do...Click on the headline to read the full story
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: How Colonial Ceylon Did It? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- War On China? – IV: Rules-Based International Order: Normalising Global State Terrorism (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – V: A “Carnival” Of Quads (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – III: Pivot To East (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – VI: India & The US: Forward Policy & The Brzezinskian Project (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Has Harin Fernando Lost His Credibility? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Any Dealing With President Who Lacks Legitimacy Is Political Suicide (Category: Breaking News)
- Nandasena Issues Chilling Warning To Opposition: “I Killed Prabhakaran Like A dog – I Can Become... (Category: Breaking News)
- Nandasena Issues Chilling Warning To Opposition: “I Killed Prabhakaran Like A dog – I Can Become... (Category: Breaking News)
- Nandasena Issues Chilling Warning To Opposition: “I Killed Prabhakaran Like A dog – I Can Become... (Category: Breaking News)
Delays in banks releasing dollars could spoil food
- Refugee Support (Category: Business)
- Food Deal (Category: Business)
- Food Acquisition (Category: Business)
- Food Oppression (Category: Business)
All three institutions are adopting a co-ordinated approach to sustain basic services and livelihoods
- Top Marks (Category: Business)
- Islamic Banking (Category: Business)
- Lucky Thirteen (Category: Business)
- Top Marks (Category: Business)
Several more Cabinet Ministers are expected to be sworn in this morning (23), political sources told Ada Derana.
The debt was repaid in 2021 by running down foreign reserves and putting the central bank in debt
- Sri Lanka central bank US$4.0bn in debt by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka monthly imports fall to 11-year low in July 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka to lend US$2.5bn to US and top-rated borrowers in 2023 under IMF deal: analysis (Category: Breaking News)
By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. Since the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was established in 1947, the region has made extraordinary progress, emerging as a pacesetter of global economic growth that has […]
- Persons with disabilities integral players in determining innovative solutions to fully inclusiv... (Category: Breaking News)
- The right policies can protect the workers of Asia and the Pacific (Category: Breaking News)
- EGUARDIAN and UiPath: Giving customers a competitive edge through world-class enterprise automat... (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreign Minister Peiris to visit Singapore for bilateral talks (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy Chennai 22 May 2022 At a time when the anti-Gota protests is acquiring the characteristics of a Greek tragedy, for the Canadian Parliament to remind this nation of alleged ‘war crimes’ has gone mostly unnoticed. While sections of the Tamil Diaspora is as euphoric as ever, the Foreign Ministry, by issuing […]
- Those forgotten final days (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM remembers Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s war (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM says Sri Lankans deserve peaceful and stable country (Category: Breaking News)
- Ten independent groups to support new Government (Category: Breaking News)
9,000 metric tonnes of rice, 200 metric tonnes of milk powder and 24 metric tonnes of essential medicines arrived.
- Indian shipment of rice, milk powder, medicines worth 3bn arrive in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s US$74 rice grant to reach Sri Lanka by end June (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka opposition move to express parliament’s dissatisfaction with president defeated (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankans express anger, frustration over president’s tweet after cricket win (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Churlish Churchill, A Godawful Grusha appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- From Rope Bridge To Shipwreck (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil & Political Evil (Category: Breaking News)
- Being Meticulously Scrupulous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Or What Made Us Insolvent (Category: Breaking News)
Ratnayake also urged citizens to keep the upcoming GCE Ordinary Level examinations in mind when conducting protests.
- No scheduled power cuts this weekend - PUCSL (Category: Breaking News)
- Power cuts during today as well (Category: Breaking News)
- PUCSL makes u-turn and approves further power cuts (Category: Breaking News)
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Fifty Years As A Republic: The Making Of The 1972 Constitution appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 1972: A Historic Opportunity Missed (Category: Breaking News)
- 1972: A Majoritarian Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- NM’s 117th Birthday: Abolishing The Executive Presidency Never More Necessary (Category: Breaking News)
- SC On 22A – Part II: Enhancing The Constitution’s Rigidity (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Sri Lanka style protests could break out in other countries if there is no proper Government support. Governments need to subsidise the cost of food and energy for the poorest members of society, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva told the BBC. People […]
- Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns (Category: Breaking News)
- Peter Dutton named Australia’s opposition leader (Category: Breaking News)
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel and Switzerland confirm Monkeypox cases (Category: Breaking News)
An Indian ship with urgent relief supplies like rice, medicines and milk powder for the people of crisis-hit Sri Lanka, worth more than SLR 2 billion, reached Colombo on Sunday.
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) has presented a set of recommendations that lays down the main anti-corruption reforms that are crucial immediately and in the medium ' long terms, if Sri Lanka is to rise above the present crisis and bring about a real change.
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
It has 90,000 metric tonnes of Siberian Light Crude
Money printing triggers excess outflows, forcing the currency down and triggering parallel exchange rates
- Sri Lanka official remittances down 33-pct in May (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank busts US$9.8bn since Feb 2020 to suppress rates, for stimulus (Category: Breaking News)
- Remittances through official channels up 78% in March (Category: Breaking News)
A Sri Lankan Tamil family fighting for years to return to the Queensland town of Biloela are set to be allowed to go home under the new Labor Government. The party promised during the election campaign the Murugappan family – Priya, Nades and their two girls Kopika and Tharnicaa – would be able to return […]
- World reacts to Putin critic Alexei Navalny’s death (Category: Breaking News)
- Father and son from Sri Lanka drown in Queensland waterfall tragedy (Category: Breaking News)
- Australian cricketers raise ethical concerns about touring Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Mathews leads Sri Lanka to T20 win over Afghanistan (Category: Breaking News)
A veteran Malaysian politician has said that he is ready to go to prison if found guilty of improper use of network facilities for his statement warning Malaysia not to become like Sri Lanka. The Malaysian Police have opened an investigation over a tweet by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang that allegedly contained a statement […]
- Malaysia monitoring Sri Lankans arriving on visit visas (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB engineers suspend trade union action (Category: Breaking News)
- Philippines orders immediate repatriation of Filipinos in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- New Foreign Secretary Aruni Wijewardane assumes duties (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka In The Chalk Circle appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur (Category: Breaking News)
- A Janus Moment (Category: Breaking News)
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Coming Firestorm & How To Get Rid Of Gota appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Defeating Gota-Ranil: Re-Thinking The Aragalaya & Left Strategy (Category: Breaking News)
- Referendum 2021 To Presidency 2024: Strategy For Victory Of The New Democratic Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Referendum 2021 To Presidency 2024: Strategy For Victory Of The New Democratic Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Referendum 2021 To Presidency 2024: Strategy For Victory Of The New Democratic Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hold Elections & Avert A Dual-Power Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Vs. GR: Who Will Outwit Whom? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A SWOT Appraisal (Category: Breaking News)
- We Are On Course To A Dual Currency Regimen (Category: Breaking News)
- Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo Callay! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP & SJB Issue Ultimatums After Ranil’s Hint At Being A Full Term PM (Category: Breaking News)
- Deepening Crisis & Political Muddling (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Paradise Bankrupt On Golden Republic Anniversary appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Not My President (Category: Breaking News)
- Rally The People, One Nation, One Call Free Sri Lanka: Independence Day 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Unelected President Ranil Renounces Sri Lanka’s Status As A Republic (Category: Breaking News)
- Jeered & Sent Home: Ominous Sign Of An Impending Peril (Category: Breaking News)
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