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Key insights to state of the economy and market and future prospects from NDB Stockbrokers’ latest Sri Lanka Equities report Uncertainty in the macro environment The robust economic growth and steep rise in global crude oil prices increased Sri Lanka’s import bill by 51% in 2011. As a result the trade deficit widened, putting the ...
- ‘Rupee Volatility – In Search of Equilibrium’ (Category: Business)
- Forex crisis: CB explains and assures (Category: Business)
- Economic growth to rebound in 2013: SCB (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
Q: What is the current situation in the Human Rights Council with regard to the debate on Sri Lanka? A: The present climate at the Human Rights Council is in Sri Lanka’s favour, but a lot of work still needs to be done. I have great confidence in the value of our arguments. It is ...
- UNHRC resolution is consequence of governance failure (Category: Breaking News)
- India instrumental in toning down resolution against Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
By: Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe In the mid nineteen eighties, the Philippines was rocked by a sustained people’s resistance movement that finally deposed of the hated and corrupt dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, who had to flee the country in a US Air Force helicopter. The Catholic Church, representing the majority of the people, played a critical role ...
- SJB offers free legal assistance to anyone to be charged under OSB (Category: Breaking News)
- What does ‘strategic partnership’ with the US entail? (Category: Breaking News)
- The need of the hour is a broad civil rights movement uniting all progressive forces (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP’s message for International Workers’ Day 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand’s worst floods in 50 years have hit tourism at the start of the high season, but the country has recovered quickly in the recent past from all sorts of scourges and some tour operators are hopeful a recovery might start next month. Floodwater in some areas of the capital, Bangkok, and other ...
- Indonesia’s tourism sector to focus on emerging markets (Category: Business)
- PATA says no need to change travel plans to Thailand (Category: Business)
- Residents flee Bangkok after “massive” flood warning (Category: Business)
- Ex-Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism tells govt. not to put cart before horse (Category: Breaking News)
Global banking giant HSBC is upbeat on Sri Lanka’s external trade, predicting exponential growth above global average over the next 15 years. In its October 2011 dated HSBC Trade Connections Trade Forecast Quarterly Update, HSBC said Sri Lanka’s external trade would grow in volume terms by 105% by 2025 and value wise by 83% to ...
- Islamic markets seen leading global trade volumes (Category: Business)
- Winning the numbers game (Category: Business)
- HSBC boosts RMB trade settlement service to 59 markets (Category: Business)
- HSBC forecasts upbeat trade scenario for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
by Dr.Nihal Jayawickrama In an article published in a Sunday newspaper, and in a recycled version published on a popular website, Dr Dayan Jayatilaka continues his defence of the indefensible Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. That piece of secret legislation...
- No postponement of elections despite electoral amendments – Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs... (Category: Breaking News)
- Defending the indefensible: Rejoinder to Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anatomy of an E-mail: Response by Dr.Nihal Jayawickrama (Category: Breaking News)
- Standing up against the 18th Constitutional Amendment is our democratic duty (Category: Breaking News)
PTI, Thursday, July 1, 2010 19:09 China today backed Sri Lanka in its opposition to the setting up of a human rights panel by the UN to look into alleged rights abuses during the ethnic war, saying the government was...
- China backs Sri Lanka on UNHRC resolution (Category: Breaking News)
- China backs Lanka stance on UN panel (Category: Breaking News)
- Give time to SL- China & Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- China backs Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
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