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Minister of Foreign Affairs, M.U.M. Ali Sabry is scheduled to travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to take part in the forthcoming 29th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting from 4 to 5 August, 2022.
Sri Lanka has lost many FDIs due to political disagreement at parliament level.
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
Investors bought the risky assets despite high interest rates.
- Sri Lanka shares edge up from 1-mo lows amid foreign outflows (Category: Breaking News)
- Development as the key to stability (Category: Breaking News)
- Toll Rate (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka bourse performs Asia's best in 2010 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil Wickremesinghe In Presidential Avatar appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Politics Of Protests (Category: Breaking News)
- President RW’s Priority In 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Sri Lanka Becoming A Police State? Government Efforts To Delegitimise Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards The Myanmar Model Of Governance? (Category: Breaking News)
- 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)
- Political engagement with Aragayala necessary (Category: Breaking News)
The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has gained 172.62 points to close at 88,080.14 points today.
Sri Lanka will restart bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August, its new president said on Wednesday, while calling on lawmakers to form an all-party government to resolve a crippling economic crisis.The post Sri Lanka to restart IMF bailout talks, president calls for unity Government appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri L...
- IMF bailout package has unlocked new path to create better future for youth and uplift the count... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to start next round of talks with creditors in April (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says it’s not right time for Rajapaksa to return after fleeing country, WSJ ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka has made good progress in negotiations with IMF – CBSL chief (Category: Breaking News)
"We also have to limit selected imports in order to balance the payments for fuel."
- Gas muzzlers (Category: Technology)
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- 'Miracle material' (Category: Technology)
- Gas Only (Category: Business)
Sri Lankan Foreign Employment Bureau this month said that a record number of more than 150,000 Sri Lankans have left for other countries in search of jobs from January to the first week of July.
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
Calls for unity in a country torn apart by nationalism and monetary instability
- Selected imports to be restricted to balance payments for fuel (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president, PM, opposition leader support proposed UN-monitored reforms: Victor Ivan (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- PM warns Sri Lanka facing threat of hitting rock bottom (Category: Breaking News)
We have communicated this to our membership and is willing to support the CBSL
- Sri Lanka relaxes dollar conversion requirement for service exporters (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL relaxes mandatory conversion requirement on service export proceeds (Category: Breaking News)
- Mandatory requirement to convert service export receipts withdrawn (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL urged to extend mandatory conversion period of advance payments related to exports (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka to negotiate with state creditors first
- ICJ chastises Sri Lanka over LTTE detentions (Category: Breaking News)
- Diplomats warn economic sanction against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka reviews international undertakings (Category: Breaking News)
- Talking Tea (Category: Business)
Selected imports will be restricted to balance payments for fuel, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. The President told Parliament that the immediate requirement before the country is fuel. “While appreciating the international assistance in addressing the fuel shortage, it in timely that we now initiate a system for such importation from our own export income […]
- Sri Lanka President Wickremesinghe parliament address – full text (Category: Breaking News)
- NMSJ concerned about arrests (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka Becoming A Police State? Government Efforts To Delegitimise Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
A Chinese military survey ship will visit a strategic port in crisis-hit Sri Lanka later this month only to refuel, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday, after neighbouring India raised concerns over the vessel's journey to the Indian Ocean island.The post Sri Lanka says Chinese military survey ship will port only to refuel appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest ...
- Sri Lanka says China survey ship can dock in its port (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka asks China to defer arrival of ship after India objects (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘We have no military agreements with China’ – Sri Lanka President (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese Survey Vessel Yuan Wang 5 reaches Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
assport of a British national, Kayleigh Fraser, who had posted about the protests on social media, seized
- Rights group accuses Sri Lanka of cracking down on dissent (Category: Breaking News)
- Rights group says Sri Lanka harassed, intimidated protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe needs to end crackdown – Human Rights Watch (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president rejects claims of protester crackdown amid continuous arrest (Category: Breaking News)
A leading human rights group has accused the new Sri Lanka Government of cracking down on dissent. The Sri Lankan Government is using emergency regulations to harass and arbitrarily detain activists seeking political reform and accountability for the country’s economic crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. Since Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as President on July […]
- Ranil urged to adopt measures to protect basic rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil urged to end use of counter terror laws on protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW accuses Sri Lanka of ignoring EU GSP+ requirements (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW says economic crisis puts rights in Sri Lanka in peril (Category: Breaking News)
Minister of Foreign Affairs, M.U.M. Ali Sabry will travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to take part in the forthcoming 29th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting from 4 to 5 August, 2022.
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Cabinet of Ministers had approved a proposal to seek the services of two international companies to identify who held the country’s International Sovereign Bonds (ISB) and to apprise them of the government’s restructuring plans, Cabinet Spokesman, Minister Bandula Gunawardane told the media on Tuesday. Gunawardena said that Sri Lanka was facing […]
- Sri Lanka to issue one billion dollar sovereign bonds (Category: Breaking News)
- SL has to meet USD 2.6 bn in foreign debt repayments and interest this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. says selling state assets only way to build reserves and prevent crippling shortages (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka to lend US$2.5bn to US and top-rated borrowers in 2023 under IMF deal: analysis (Category: Breaking News)
The secret vote on the new President as well as the Emergency sharply divided the SLFP. In spite of talks among members of its parliamentary group, the party, led by one-time President Maithripala Sirisena, has not been able to reach a consensus on a strategy to deal with the new President. Of the 14 SLFPers, […]
- Gevindu faults Prez, PM over deferred 22 A (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez makes headway amidst deepening turmoil (Category: Breaking News)
- Rebels to launch new alliance, initiate talks with GL-Dallas group (Category: Breaking News)
- Absence of dialogue among MPs unfortunate – Gevindu (Category: Breaking News)
by Jayampathy Molligoda Inflation is too high in Sri Lanka; people are finding it unbearable. How can we control the inflation from further slipping? Singapore experience and structure of our CBSL: Singapore has the Monetary Authority Singapore (‘MAS’) as their Central Bank, where in Sri Lanka, we have the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (which […]
- ‘SL’s inflation reduced to single digit levels in 2023 along with restoration of price stability’ (Category: Breaking News)
- High interest rates have prevented contraction of economy – CBSL Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Inflation – Public Enemy Number One (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL to maintain ‘dovish monetary policy in view of economic stabilization’ (Category: Breaking News)
By Kalinga Tudor Silva One of the important ways, the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka has directly impacted our lives is having to go through long and seeming unending queues, to access petrol, diesel, kerosene and even our dear passports. Queues have multiplied, sprung up on either side of the road and across the […]
- Fuel rationing suspended from Sept. 1 says Kanchana (Category: Breaking News)
- Exclusive fuel arrangements for healthcare workers to be deferred (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to fully implement QR code system in fuel rationing from Aug. 1 (Category: Breaking News)
- Economy improving, VAT can be reduced – RW (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, has briefed the Colombo-based diplomatic community on what the Foreign Ministry called a broad-based, consultative approach adopted by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in addressing the current challenges. Foreign Minister Sabry has explained the ongoing discussions on forming an all-party Government. Reference was also made to progressive legislative reforms being co...
- ‘War crimes’: Not only individuals but also entire fighting divisions ‘blacklisted’ – Foreign Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sabry questions insistence of interested parties to cremate bodies of Covid-19 victims (Category: Breaking News)
- Tiran explains police action to foreign diplomats (Category: Breaking News)
- 2024, the year to revitalize country s economy - Sabry tells Colombo-based diplomatic corps (Category: Breaking News)
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