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[…] The post The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Militancy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: Defence Expenditure & The Tamils Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Militancy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: Defence Expenditure & The Tamils Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict (Category: Breaking News)
- For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict (Category: Breaking News)
- Changing Dimensions In ‘Power’; The Role Of India & China & Sri Lanka’s Predicament (Category: Breaking News)
- India Is Over The Moon, Ranil Wants Sri Lankan Children Taught Hindi & Chinese (Category: Breaking News)
24th August 2012 Dr. P. B. Jayasundera, Secretary to the Treasury, Ministry of Finance & Planning The Secretariat, Colombo 1. Dear Dr. Jayasundera, Establishment of a Financial Services Authority and a Banking and Finance Commission I suggest for your consideration that you duly evaluate the long-term national economic benefits of enhancing effective fiscal management capability ...
- Promoting productive social protection (Category: Business)
- MBSL seminar on ‘Implications of the new Finance Business Act’ on 19 September (Category: Business)
- The loud voice of economists: Reform or perish (Category: Business)
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s over US$ ($) 500 million leasing industry plans to raise between $ 150-250 million from international capital markets to circumvent high borrowing costs locally, an official told this newspaper. Kamal Yatawara, Chairman Finance Houses Association of Sri Lanka (FHA) and director/CEO The Finance Company plc said that an international donor agency whose name ...
- Finance Houses Association elects Kamal as Chairman (Category: Business)
- People’s Leasing Group marks significant results for 2012 FY (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Central Bank provide credit guarantees for companies (Category: Breaking News)
- BoC Leasing goes online with OpenArc ‘SkyLease’ Software (Category: Business)
The Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Rating Services assigned a score of 8 (very high risk) to the Sri Lankan economy and banking industry last week. The role of ratings agencies in the lead-up to the global financial crisis (2008) was certainly highly questionable. There are also issues related
- Way out to fix the sick external sector: Getting back to IMF’s fold a must now (Category: Business)
- Commendable start; now for the finish (Category: Business)
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
- Limits of statist development or state capitalism (Category: Business)
Mr. Thilak Karunarathne Chairman, Securities Exchange Commission,Colombo. Dear Sir, Re: SEC inquiry connected with the stock exchange transaction where the National Savings Bank acquired shares of The Finance Company I wish to hail your expressed commitments to initiate with urgency a comprehensive inquiry connected with the stock exchange transaction where the National Savings Bank acquired ...
- Economic management and the way forward (Category: Business)
- Govt. to consider tightening laws on white collar crimes (Category: Business)
- NSB-TFC deal’s stench spreads! (Category: Business)
- Wijetilleke backs calls for tough action on NSB-TFC deal (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis Even if the status of the world economy seems to have found a rather fragile equilibrium with Europe over the past six weeks, the world is no closer to being immune from the risks that have cropped up as a result of the European and USA led recession and changes in world ...
- S&P says Asia will pull through hard times (Category: Business)
- Emerging Asia’s 2012 growth cut to 6.8% from 7.4% (Category: Business)
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
- World economy fragile, faces “uneasy calm” – IMF (Category: Business)
My column today is an attempt to focus our attention on a few less spoken or untold developments that may have a profound influence on how we carve our way through in creating a desirable social, economic and political future for mankind on this only planet of ours. While I will not specifically touch on ...
- Development-led globalisation (Category: Business)
- The ‘Doha Mandate’ (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Global trends in investment (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)
Regulatory pressure mounted further over the course of 2011 – bad news for financial services firms, but good news for the consultancies to which they turned for help. Ernst and Young topped the Operational Risk and Regulation consultancy rankings again in 2011 (http://www.risk.net/operational-risk-and-regulation/feature/2135016/orr-consultancy-rankings-2011), and the New York-based head of ...
Rajapaksa Family already planning more land grabbing Kleptocrat: A ruler who uses power to steal the country’s resources. Oxford Dictionary By Tisaranee Gunasekara Mindless-extravagance; land-grabbing; media-muzzling: the three Rajapaksa preoccupations are intimately interconnected. The Ruling Siblings need money to strengthen their power and to sustain their voracious appetite for exhibitionism, ...
- Kleptocrats Strike Again (Category: Breaking News)
- Land acquisition seminar in Canada: TNA MPs to present (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal reveals alleged land grab plot (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal reveals alleged land grab plot (Category: Breaking News)
Following is the address delivered by Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama at the fourth South Asia Economic Summit (SAES IV) Plenary Session: In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, there has been a noticeable shift in economic clout, moving from the USA and the debt-plagued countries of the Eurozone, to ...
- Asia Pacific trade and investment (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
- Challenging times for Asia Pacific (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
In the midst of the turmoil in international financial markets and national economies, Sovereign Wealth Funds are coming into closer focus. For the first time since the breakout of the financial crisis, the financial mandarins of China intervened to shore up confidence in the country’
- Gas gusto! (Category: Business)
- Government in the dark on extent and volume of Mannar Basin gas deposits (Category: Business)
- India’s ONGC To Also Explore Oil In SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Another Indian firm to explore oil in Mannar Basin (Category: Business)
Professionals are shy to raise critical issues in public!It is believed that the single focus advocacy proposal of the Joint Chambers of Commerce and Industry for the Budget 2012 to address is the continuing high priority of enhancing the ‘ease of doing business in Sri Lanka’. A president of a chamber holds a publicly articulated ...
- Economic management and the way forward (Category: Business)
- Time for reflection, reality check, risk mitigation and lessons learnt action (Category: Business)
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Investing in the Northern Province: Constraints and countering them (Category: Business)
by Jayantha Dhanapala (Text of Keynote Address titled Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power- Sustainable Smart Power at the Opening Plenary of the South and Central Asia Fulbright Regional Workshop, Hilton Hotel, Colombo, 26 January, 2011.) I think it is necessary...
- For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict (Category: Breaking News)
- For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict (Category: Breaking News)
- For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict (Category: Breaking News)
- Science Diplomacy as a powerful tool for national unity and friendship among nations – I (Category: Breaking News)
By Abdul H. Azeez Hedging deals are double edged, and even though they reduce risk, they do not completely eliminate it. If hedging deals are entered into without proper foresight, they can cut down and amputate like a sweeping butcher’s knife. Sri Lanka, in its rush to rid itself of the burden of high fuel ...
- CBSL Ties Itself In Knots (Category: Breaking News)
- $ 200 m axe hangs on CPC (Category: Business)
- CPC Loses Appeal In London: Must Pay US$ 162 Million + (Category: Breaking News)
- CPC synonymous with corruption (Category: Business)
World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said that the Mahinda Chinthana is behind the success story of Sri Lanka’s economy. It was the World Bank Managing Director who delivered the commemorative lecture today to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The flexibility of the Monetary Sector and the Mahinda ...
- More aid from World Bank for Sri Lanka as a middle-income country (Category: Breaking News)
- Accelerating inclusive growth in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank praises Sri Lanka’s emergence as a growing economy. (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank praises Sri Lanka’s growing economy (Category: Breaking News)
A Budget analysis by Eran Wickramaratne The 2010 Budget is a departure from the Budgets that have been presented by the Mahinda Rajapakse regime in the past. Its neither Keynesian or Marxian, but explicitly committed to limiting itself to fiscal...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Rupee depreciation: A powerful tool to drive growth and employment? (Category: Business)
- Accelerating inclusive growth: The role of the external sector (Category: Business)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr.Laksiri Fernando (Text of DA Rajapaksa Memorial Address) National development is not merely about the economy but the economy is central. It entails economic, social, political, cultural and even moral aspects. The contribution of the North and the East during the last three decades or so was hampered in all these spheres by the separatist and the terrorist war. It is nece...
- American Premium – Market Leader In Bottled Water (Category: Breaking News)
- KP speaks out ~ 2 – An interview with the former LTTE chief (Category: Breaking News)
- âWindow to Chinaâ launched (Category: Breaking News)
- No Tsunami danger due to earthquake off Maldives â (Category: Breaking News)
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the combined second, third and fourth periodic report of Sri Lanka on how that country is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights....
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women meets with non-governmental organiz... (Category: Breaking News)
- Briefing note on the Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka - by Sri Lanka Advocacy Group (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘We have evolved a mechanism to look into accountability issues raised in the LLRC report’ – Sam... (Category: Breaking News)
- Government says committed to probe (Category: Breaking News)
WARS can still be won, even against formidable terrorist organisations. And Sri Lanka shows how. That is the core message of the country's security supremo, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a rare interview with The Australian: by Rowan Callick His...
- A one-eyed view of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Gothabaya Rajapaksa in China with military top brass (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa in China with military top brass (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankans commemorate War Heroes Day, Tamil Genocide Day on same day (Category: Breaking News)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara “If people are frightened that their security is threatened, they will gravitate towards strong leaders”. Noam Chomski (Imperial Ambitions) The war is over. But defence expenditure keeps on increasing. According to media reports, the defence allocation for...
- Sarath Fonseka is the victim of act of political persecution and personal vengeance (Category: Breaking News)
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa project of establishing familial control over the State Army and the SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
- Power grab and dictatorial ambitions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa exposed (Category: Breaking News)
By K. Ratnayake Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s trip to New York and speech at the UN General Assembly last week had two main purposes: to cover up for war crimes committed during the country’s civil war and to appeal...
- Sri Lanka calls for anti-UN report rally (Category: Breaking News)
- Probe Pressure (Category: Business)
- Parallel world’s short circuit in Oxford (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil Aussie community criticises govt. decision (Category: Breaking News)
By Srilal Miththapala Just over a year ago, I penned an article entitled “Sri Lanka Tourism — Quo Vadis” where I raised the issues and challenges Sri Lanka was facing in developing its tourism industry. Of course, that was during the latter stages of the war, and now after the ending of the war, there ...
- How tourism yield can be suitably incorporated into the sustainability paradigm (Category: Business)
- Warm welcome for record-breaking 800,000th tourist arrival in 2011 (Category: Business)
- Tourism: Fast growth or slow burn? (Category: Business)
As the Sri Lankan stock market dipped dramatically, the government has begun regulating the market more restrictively while making a public show of tightening its own belt. The government is trying to improve its financial management, but the question is whether it can adapt in time to stabilize an already shaky economy. The Colombo Stock ...
- Colombo Plans Northern Highway (Category: Breaking News)
- Economy Grows By 7.1% In First Quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- External Affairs Roundup – Blake, Moon and Karunanidhi (Category: Breaking News)
- Surpassing neoliberal fictions towards mission-oriented state (Category: Breaking News)
Next, a British clothing retailer, has stopped sourcing its garments from Sri Lanka because of the uncertainty of the continuance of the g.s.p.+ duty free concession. “It has moved over to Bangladesh,” an industry source told The Sunday Leader. The g.s.p.+ facility helps Sri Lanka to export garments and several other products to the E.U. ...
- G.S.P. + Loss Will Set S.L. Back (Category: Breaking News)
- Utopia Vs. Reality (Category: Breaking News)
- Trade Trends (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka has a chance of enjoying GSP Plus (Category: Breaking News)
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