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Orthodox tea exports from India have increased by more than 22 percent during the first six months of the calendar year as its largest supplier, Sri Lanka, grapples with an economic crisis, Indian media reports say. A report published by the Business Standard has said: “According to the latest data available on the Tea Board […]
By Stella Yifan Xie HONG KONG—The sharp slowdown in China’s growth in the past year is prompting many experts to reconsider when China will surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy—or even if it ever will. Until recently, many economists assumed China’s gross domestic product measured in U.S. dollars would surpass that of the […]
By N Sathiya Moorthy While leaving for Geneva to head the government delegation at the UNHRC session beginning this week, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has reiterated the Sri Lankan State position that it would not accept an ‘international probe’ into war-crimes, as dictated in earlier resolutions of the UN human rights body. The government has […]
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka’s economic woes have not cast a shadow over its complex foreign relations. On August 16, the southern port of Hambantota welcomed the Yuan Wang 5, a research vessel from China. While Colombo had asked for a deferral of the visit, it eventually relented and allowed the ship to dock until […]
by Dayan Jayatilleka, PhD Watching Mikhail Gorbachev who died last week at the World Festival of Youth and Students in the Summer of 1985, I had a thought which I later recorded in an article in the Sri Lankan newspapers. I felt, and wrote, that “at last we have a Soviet leader we do not […]
Russia is seeking to strengthen its relations with Sri Lanka. The outgoing Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka YuryMateriy called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat. YuryMateriy, who has ended his term in Sri Lanka, said that he will continue to work to strengthen
India’s envoy to the UN Security Council, Ruchira Kamboj says the most pressing need of the hour is a truly representative Security Council. Ruchira Kamboj during her address took swipes at China and Pakistan for adopting double standards. While India and China were exchanging verbal barbs over a Chinese research ship docking in a Sri […]
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev who died last Tuesday was hardly known outside the Soviet Union when JR Jayewardene made himself Sri Lanka’s President in 1978. Seven years later, on March 11, 1985, Gorbachev would be become the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He was 54 years old and was the first leader of the […]
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Thursday 1st September, 2022 There is absolutely no need for aliens to take the trouble of undertaking intergalactic missions to destroy this planet. The so-called big powers vying for global dominance are already at it, and the signs are that they will succeed in their endeavour. The entire world is reeling from the war in […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday said that he was quite disappointed that his economic revival plan, or common minimum programme, presented in parliament on 12 August hadn’t received the anticipated response from political parties, represented in Parliament. The Colombo District lawmaker said so when The Island asked him whether political parties and President […...
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[…]The post Ranil’s Policy Train-Wreck, Opposition Own-Goals, Dullas-GL Game-Changer appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
By N Sathiya Moorthy Canvassing their support for his prime ministerial candidacy, Indian-origin Rishi Sunak told Tamil Diaspora Conservatives that he would consider ‘targeted sanctions’ on war-crimes and accountability issues in Sri Lanka as applicable now to Russia for ‘invading’ neighbouring
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Bangkok:External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that the relationship between India and China is going through an “extremely difficult phase” after what Beijing has done at the border and emphasised that the Asian Century will not happen if the two neighbours could not join hands. Jaishankar made the remarks while responding to a […]
External Affairs Minister of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar said on Thursday that the relationship between India and China was going through an “extremely difficult phase” after what Beijing had done at the border and emphasised that the Asian Century would not happen if the two neighbours could not join hands.The post India has done its best to assist Sri Lanka – Jaishankar appeared first on ONLA...
Rajapaksa resigned from the presidency after mass protests against the worst economic crisis since Independence.
” Sri Lanka cannot do without IMF’s support. Having declared its inability to service its foreign debt, Sri Lanka is struggling to reach a consensus with lenders and the IMF. Two of Sri Lanka’s major creditors, India and China, locked horns over a port visit by a Chinese ship. Sri Lanka should be wary of […]
The MPs’ political engagement “in a highly sensitive issue such as this” was “totally unnecessary”, Herath tweeted.
By Uditha Devapriya Divided from the Indian subcontinent, yet also deeply connected to it, Sri Lanka has never had an opportunity of forging and shaping a foreign policy of its own. The high point of its foreign relations, under the three Bandaranaike administrations over a period of 20 years, did signal an effort, and a […]
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