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[…]The post Human Rights Compliant Recovery Measures Critical To Stop Spiraling Hunger & Poverty In Sri Lanka: Amnesty International appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Human rights compliant recovery measures critical to stop spiraling hunger, poverty in Sri Lanka... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka urged to ensure adequate nutrition for all pregnant, breastfeeding women (Category: Breaking News)
- AI: Lanka at brink of humanitarian crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis Deepens Without Rescue Plan (Category: Breaking News)
the way for a knowledge-driven economy. Gamage said that Sri Lanka, […]
- SLIM delegates shine at Philippines National Marketing Conference (Category: Breaking News)
- SLIM-Nielsen Peoples Awards gives voice to the people (Category: Breaking News)
- Tilan becomes youngest SLIM President (Category: Business)
- SLIM steps in to assist new inventors (Category: Business)
Series of crises SL has faced have dealt a heavy blow Reviving presents SL with an opportunity to address its long-running challenges by Sanath Nanayakkare Young people are not only the present but also the future; developing plans and policies without them is a futile exercise, they need to be the front and centre of […]
- Browns Hotels & Resorts celebrates World Tourism Day with an insightful forum (Category: Breaking News)
- Government and UNDP map out SDG investment for private sector to support recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP, EU assistance to equip tourism industry for sustainable future (Category: Breaking News)
- EU hosts the first ever “Team Europe BIOthlon” in Kalpitiya (Category: Breaking News)
The ‘atingi’ eAcademy is a digital learning platform, providing users with the opportunity to develop their knowledge in the tourism and hospitality sector. Introduced by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the e-learning platform caters to anyone interested in upskilling their knowledge on tourism and hospitality-related topics including line staff, management prof...
- Netherlands Embassy and IWMI to organize joint climate change dialogue (Category: Breaking News)
- Wiley Sri Lanka employees indulge in beach cleanup activity (Category: Breaking News)
- Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts signs MoU with Vocational Training Authority (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka identifies India as important source market for tourism (Category: Breaking News)
The country has lost several hundred thousand jobs to Covid-19. The impact of the agrochemical ban on agriculture, the mismanagement of the exchange rate, a highly accommodative monetary policy, and the use of foreign exchange reserves for debt repayment thwarted the country’s ability to recover from the initial shock of COVID-19, an ILO study titled, […]
- Sri Lanka will be secured if India is secured - Gopal Baglay (Category: Breaking News)
- India hoping for early solution for Sri Lankan crisis through democratic means (Category: Breaking News)
- IT professionals leaving country (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. announces additional $5.75 Mn in response to Sri Lanka s economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Japan, one of Sri Lanka's main creditors, will back the South Asian nation as it seeks to restructure about $30 billion of its foreign debt and find a way out of a crippling economic crisis, Tokyo's envoy to the country said on Friday.The post Japan to support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring negotiations appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Japan ready to support debt restructuring – Japanese Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan Grants USD 46 Million to Provide Diesel for Sri Lanka’s Hospitals (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan Grants USD 46 Million to Provide Diesel for Sri Lanka’s Hospitals (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese Ambassador assures Japan’s support for Sri Lanka’s Economic development efforts (Category: Breaking News)
Japan, one of Sri Lanka’s main creditors, will back the South Asian nation as it seeks to restructure about $30 billion of its foreign debt and find a way out of a crippling economic crisis, Tokyo’s envoy to the country said on Friday. Reaching an agreement with creditors is key to Sri Lanka securing a […]
- India writes to IMF backing Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring plan (Category: Breaking News)
- SC allows proceedings against GR, MR to proceed (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Chinese-built Lotus Tower limits visiter time to 20 minutes (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan says no pact yet with Sri Lanka on debt restructure talks (Category: Breaking News)
The ‘atingi’ eAcademy is a digital learning platform, providing users with the opportunity to develop their knowledge in the tourism and hospitality sector. Introduced by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the e-learning platform caters to anyone interested in upskilling their knowledge on tourism and hospitality-related topics including line staff, management prof...
- Introducing for the first time in Sri Lanka, the ‘atingi’ eAcademy for tourism and hospitality (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tourism finds new ways to cater to visitors from Middle East (Category: Breaking News)
- Brain drain impediment to hospitality industry – Dr.Jayasinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘2023, one of Sri Lanka’s best recovery years; tourism will support country re-building’ (Category: Breaking News)
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray In many ways, the economic collapse of Sri Lanka became a near certainty in the weeks after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected President. In hindsight, it is clear to all that his government’s number one priority was consolidating their power and punishing those it saw as its enemies. Their next priority was […]
- CBK points finger at her successors as SLFP leader (Category: Breaking News)
- Of that crab dance (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- From Crisis Prime Minister To Put Down President (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the Free Trade Agreement would be revived and upgraded into a comprehensive economic and technological partnership.The post Sri Lanka to establish International Trade Office to deal with International Trade Negotiations appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka will not allow anything harmful to India’s security – President Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka and Thailand signed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) (Category: Breaking News)
- India, Sri Lanka agree to boost ties through energy, power and port projects (Category: Breaking News)
- Infrastructure, energy and debt on agenda as Sri Lanka president arrives in India (Category: Breaking News)
Shares have been on the rise mainly on positive sentiment after the IMF comments.
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sell Rs60bn mostly in 3-month bills, yield up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka debt office raises 21 pct of required debt via T-bills (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Bairaha Farm’s profit soars over 200% on rising chicken price (Category: Breaking News)
Market sees over 600 million rupees of net foreign inflow
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
We can make the Mannar Island like entertainment location like Macau island
- 8 hoping to visit Australia arrested at Mannar (Category: Breaking News)
- Words of Wisdom (Category: Business)
- Steve Hanke on currency boards and flawed pegs amid Sri Lanka meltdown (Category: Breaking News)
- India to assist restoration of Thiruketheeswaram Temple (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Adopting A Humanist Approach To Empower Youths For National Development appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Government’s Attempt To Redefine The Political Discourse & Direction Through Suppression (Category: Breaking News)
- Privatisation Of Public Assets Under Neoliberal Corporate Capitalism: Modern Evil (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
For the first time in parliamentary history, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has issued a dire warning to Parliament and political parties therein over the responsibility on their part to ensure financial stability and discipline. Their failure to do so would trigger public protests again, they were told. There hadn’t been such a public […]
- All praise for Lanka’s saviours! (Category: Breaking News)
- Shocking claim in House: Bandula reveals how sugar importers, their henchmen trapped Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Herath: COPE dissolution must not hinder probe into economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- The fall of Pohottuwa govt. (Category: Breaking News)
Imports fall as financial account inflows dry up
- Sri Lanka investment goods, non-foods import fall overtakes oil cost in April 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Country's Reserves almost double - Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka imports fall in May as credit slows with rate hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Exports up 7.0 percent (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in New Delhi, Milinda Moragoda, has declared that the preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under which Sri Lanka could receive $2.9 billion to tackle the ongoing economic crisis, is a “first step” in the long haul of economic recovery, but would provide the country and investors “confidence” to […]
- SL must restructure debt and ease import restrictions by year end says Morgoda (Category: Breaking News)
- Milinda: Sri Lanka should stabilise economy, relax import restrictions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala translation of Quran presented to Bharain Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Moragoda and ICCR Prez review Indo-Lanka cultural relations (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka’s First Firm Steps At Economic Reforms appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka: Strategizing Economic Recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- BRI Dynamics & Politics Of Cabinet Reshuffle (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Surviving The 75th Year Of Independence (Category: Breaking News)
- Charting A New Beginning? (Category: Breaking News)
, as the country seeks to rebuild its economy sustainably, […]
- Driving sustainable investment: The crucial role of sustainable finance and private capital for ... (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP says Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka rallies corporates to ‘Forward Faster’ on SDGs (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka missed FDIs over delayed project planning by state entities – BOI (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached a preliminary agreement on an emergency loan to the crisis-hit country and a formal announcement will be made on Thursday, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.The post Crisis-hit Sri Lanka strikes staff-level pact with IMF on loan – sources appeared first on ONLANKA News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - S...
- Sri Lanka’s revenue shortfall concerns IMF team – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, IMF reach preliminary agreement on emergency loan- reports (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF delegation to arrive in Sri Lanka on Thursday (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF staff to visit Sri Lanka in September for first programme review (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) and Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) recently declared corruption as the root cause of Sri Lanka’s current political and economic crisis. The declaration was made in a statement titled, “SLID and TISL launch ‘Business Against Corruption’ Initiative” issued to the media after the two organisations […]
- Of Elections, Bond Scams & Money Politics: The Anatomy Of Default @75 (Category: Breaking News)
- Treasury bond scams: SJB drags Lotus Tower into ‘conflict’ as SLPP attacks ‘footnote’ gang (Category: Breaking News)
- Massive Corruption Scams Rock The Land Of The Mahatma (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka accelerates financial literacy drive amid scams (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post “Really Real Manner Of Managing Sri Lanka” – ‘To Paris and Back’ 1977-1990 (JRJ Years) appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ballad Of A Sad Trumpet (Category: Breaking News)
- A Story Of Shadows (Category: Breaking News)
- Cockiness; What Price? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's president is set to slash expenditure when he presents an interim budget on Tuesday to see the crisis-ridden country through the rest of the year, amid discussions with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout package.The post Sri Lanka’s president to cut spending in interim budget appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- President not informed about appointment of Interim Committee for Sri Lanka Cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says Presidential, Parliamentary Elections will be held in 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Interim Budget 2022 passed in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- 2023 Budget aimed at long-term, stable economic growth to be presented to Parliament tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards The Myanmar Model Of Governance? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government’s Attempt To Redefine The Political Discourse & Direction Through Suppression (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Adopting A Humanist Approach To Empower Youths For National Development (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr. Gotabhaya Ranasinghe Sri Lanka is blessed with natural resources and scenic beauty. Famed for the hospitality of the friendly people, the country has a lot more to offer than just delicious food, comfortable lodgings, adventurous nature trails, and the green-blue seas.Sri Lanka is facing a grave financial crisis, of which the repercussions are […]
- Private Hospitals Association’s case for employing foreign medical specialists (Category: Business)
- Vida Medical Clinic Redefines Healthcare Experience (Category: Breaking News)
- Arogya 2012 to promote local health sector (Category: Business)
- FSP warns brain drain will cripple healthcare even in urban centres (Category: Breaking News)
He said inflation may peak around September below 70 percent before showing a downward trend.
- Sri Lanka’s headline inflation may rise to 70% in coming months – Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka inflation bigger threat to business than interest rates: CB Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Curtailing inflation critical to avert Zimbabwe-like scenario – CBSL Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- CB Governor sees light at the end of the tunnel (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank said it was holding its policy rates at 15.50 percent, while data showed market interest rates are close to twice the rate and private credit and imports falling. Monetary Policy Review: No. 06 – August 2022The Central Bank of Sri Lanka maintains policy interest rates at their current levelsThe Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka...
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka maintains policy interest rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka policy rate unchanged as market rates rise, money printing warnings (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expects inflation to slow, rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank expects economy to contract in second half of 2022 as well (Category: Breaking News)
Electricity prices were last hiked in 2013 however were slashed almost by 25% in 2014
- Sri Lanka free trade zone manufacturers alarmed by electricity tariff hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Electricity tariffs to go up by 75 percent (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka utility regulator approves 75 percent electricity tariff hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka power tariff hike: ministry offers olive branch to protesting monks (Category: Breaking News)
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in Thailand on Thursday, according to three Reuters witnesses, as he seek temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests.The post Sri Lanka’s ousted president arrives in Thailand for temporary stay appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Late...
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa advised to remain indoors for security reasons at Bangkok hotel (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s ruling party asks new president to help with ex-leader Rajapaksa’s return (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa applies for U.S. Green Card, looks to settle back in United States (Category: Breaking News)
- Thailand says former Sri Lanka president seeking visit, not asylum (Category: Breaking News)
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