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Thursday 18th August 2022 Speculation is rife that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is planning to return to Sri Lanka. The question, however, is not whether he is coming, but what he is doing overseas. The anti-government protesters who engineered his ouster called upon him to ‘go home’; they did not ask him to flee the […]
- President Rajapaksa leaves Maldives on Saudi plane - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Speaker retracts statement on President leaving country (Category: Breaking News)
- Out, then not out; Sri Lanka Speaker retracts his own statement on president’s whereabouts (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya should not act has a politician: UNP (Category: Breaking News)
Former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka on August 24, says former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga.The post Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka on August 24 – Udayanga appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya will return to Sri Lanka on Aug 24- Udayanga Weeratunga (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says it’s not right time for Rajapaksa to return after fleeing country, WSJ ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa advised to remain indoors for security reasons at Bangkok hotel (Category: Breaking News)
Former Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga arrived at the CID to provide a statement with regard to the procurement of MiG-27 fighter jets to the Sri Lanka Air Force.The post Udayanga Weeratunga at the CID over MiG Deal appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka on August 24 – Udayanga (Category: Breaking News)
- Udayanga questioned on MiG deal (Category: Breaking News)
- Udayanga Weeratunga arrives at CID (Category: Breaking News)
- Julian Bolling summoned to CID (Category: Breaking News)
” 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 […]
- Yuan Wang 5 triggers a moot point of contentious politics between India and Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should prevent Chinese vessel from reaching Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
- Sl allowing Chinese ‘Spy Ship’ to dock at Hambantota jeopardizes Indio-Lanka ties! (Category: Breaking News)
- India gifts maritime surveillance aircraft to Sri Lanka amid Chinese ‘spy ship’ row (Category: Breaking News)
“Fuel price revisions will take place again on September 01,” the ministry official said on Tuesday August 16.
- Flammable economy? (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s Litro Gas to reduce prices; fuel price revision also expected (Category: Breaking News)
- Fuel prices reduced in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- JAL to lower fuel surcharges on international tickets (Category: Business)
Yes, of course, the older folks would all remember Edward Joseph; the young ones may find the name unfamiliar as Edward now lives in Germany and does his thing in that part of the world. Better known as Eddy, he was with the leader of the group Steelers and they were big in the local […]
- Gota goes, plunging country into chaos (Category: Breaking News)
- Devotees leave thousands of kilos of plastic in Kumana (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota leaves Singapore after fleeing protesters at home (Category: Breaking News)
- Choose Ranil and you choose a cycle of carnage and catastrophe (Category: Breaking News)
Funds are to help 204 million people and communities as armed conflict and climate change threaten their livelihoods (Al Jazeera) The United Nations’ humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $48.7bn secured so far as global needs outpace pledges, according to the world body’s Office for […]
- EU provides emergency relief to families most affected by Sri Lanka s crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- UN says Northern development faces $200m shortfall (Category: Breaking News)
- UN faces funding shortfall for Sri Lanka humanitarian work (Category: Breaking News)
- UN running low of funds humanitarian work in northern province? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean (Category: Breaking News)
- A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War (Category: Breaking News)
- Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? (Category: Breaking News)
- Elon Musk To Rescue Sri Lanka From IMF Debt Bondage? (Category: Breaking News)
Washington [US], August 3 (ANI): The new federal programme passed by the US Congress provides USD 52 billion in support for the semiconductor industry, however, it restricts companies that are accepting the funding for expanding their chip production capacity in China. The Chips and Science Act is a USD 280 billion package that was passed […]
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
- Etihad gets first Boeing 747-400 freighter (Category: Business)
- IPO To Raise Rs. 400 mn (Category: Breaking News)
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 […]
- SL’s growth spurt and the current world order (Category: Breaking News)
- Crashing economies and the South’s narrowing foreign policy options (Category: Breaking News)
- For India, Sri Lanka is not indispensable, but for Sri Lanka, India is indispensable (Category: Breaking News)
- MR Tells Envoys To Maintain Good Ties (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Purchasing Power Parity appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka GDP per capita PPP (Category: Business)
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka open to BOO, BOT, or PPP projects & not loans; Rambukwella (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka open to BOO, BOT, or PPP projects & not loans; Rambukwella (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
One person has been killed after blasts rocked a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration there said. Sergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula’s western coast. Footage circulating on social media appeared to show multiple […]
- Dozens dead in Egypt church fire (Category: Breaking News)
- Kenyans to choose a new President (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- Grease star Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73 (Category: Breaking News)
Bangladesh has warned developing countries not to become like Sri Lanka by taking loans from China. Bangladesh’s Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has warned that developing countries must think twice about taking more loans through China’s Belt and Road Initiative as global (BRI) inflation and slowing growth add to the strains on indebted emerging markets, […]
- SL owes $ 15 b on foreign borrowings since 1997 (Category: Business)
- China is an economic hit man: Harsha (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka May Not Tap IMF Funds Immediately on Reserves, Amunugama Says (Category: Breaking News)
- Transport Loans (Category: Business)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s two years in office – a period of unprecedented political turmoil, uncertainty and further deterioration of Parliament – should be thoroughly examined. In fact, the UNP, with the support of the then President Maithripala Sirisena, paved the way for Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s candidature, at the 2019 presidential election, by blocking Mahinda Rajapaksa’s path […...
- Deferred China ship visit takes place amidst diplomatic row (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposed all-party govt: Prez wins support from unexpected quarters (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Delegation Due In SL (Category: Breaking News)
- The new President must learn from Gota! (Category: Breaking News)
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking donor support to reach 3.4 million people in Sri Lanka with food and nutrition assistance as nearly a quarter of Sri Lanka is facing food shortages for millions.Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence is spinning off a “serious food crisis,” says the World Food Programme Representative and […]
- Brazilian commodities for Sri Lanka from UN World Food Program (Category: Business)
- Japan to provide $1.5mln essential food grant to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan donates canned fish for school meal program in Northern Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Thousands affected by floods (Category: Breaking News)
SL too on agenda BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 6: India is maintaining a studied “loud silence” on the tensions between China and the United States and the developments in the Taiwan Straits in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taipei last week. The decision […]
- China fires missiles in ‘unprecedented’ drills around Taiwan (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan CB says hot money returning to markets (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s external relations amidst power rivalries (Category: Breaking News)
- Have China’s Pacific ambitions been thwarted? (Category: Breaking News)
After the collapse of the Sri Lankan economy, attention has turned to the state of affairs in other South Asian countries such as Pakistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh. All three countries have either curtailed imports or are planning to do so, to salvage their fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves and avoid a Lanka-like forex crisis. While the […]
- Emerging Donor (Category: Business)
- Bangladesh seeks $4.5 billion IMF loan as deficit widens (Category: Breaking News)
- Now, Bangladesh asks for USD 4.5 bn from IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President leaves for Bangladesh (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan completely justified: CTA’s Penpa Tsering (Category: Breaking News)
- China to skip meeting with US Secretary in Cambodia amid tensions over Pelosi’s visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? (Category: Breaking News)
India expects bilateral trade worth $8-9 billion with Russia and Sri Lanka in the next two months after it allowed international trade in rupees, India’s trade secretary said.The post India expects $8-$9 Billion bilateral trade with Russia, Sri Lanka in two months appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- India expects $8-$9 bn bilateral trade with Russia, Sri Lanka in two months (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka trade booms in Delhi’s favour (Category: Breaking News)
- India and Sri Lanka set eyes on clinching CEPA soon - Hindu (Category: Breaking News)
- India eclipses China to become top lender to debt-laden Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
the implications of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and Sri […]
- EU tells President to focus on GSP, IMF, human rights (Category: Breaking News)
- India holds talks with SLPP dissident MPs (Category: Breaking News)
- Sanath Jayasuriya discusses tourism with Indian envoy (Category: Breaking News)
- Samarasinghe briefs President Joe Biden (Category: Breaking News)
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s current controversial visit to Taiwan is bound to aggravate East-West tensions, besides having the effect of further straining US-China relations. Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the first in more than two decades by any top US administration official to China’s breakaway province, is bound to be viewed as a blatant affront […]
- China’s PLA may have “complete capability” to attack Taiwan by 2025: Defence Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. House Speaker Pelosi arrives in Taiwan defying China (Category: Breaking News)
- China, Taiwan play high-seas ‘cat and mouse’ as drills wrap up (Category: Breaking News)
- India more powerful today, can have relations with both Russia, West: Fareed Zakaria (Category: Breaking News)
by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca. The forex crisis had forced the government to jettison its initial set of economic managers of the Central bank who looked for home-grown solutions and opposed dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President re-instated a set of managers whose ideas were more orthodox and aligned with the neo-liberal bankers […]
- Dollars and conscience (Category: Breaking News)
- CB Governor stresses on need to stay the course (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka growth to dip below 7.5% – IMF (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)
- PM warns Sri Lanka facing threat of hitting rock bottom (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka Becoming A Police State? Government Efforts To Delegitimise Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
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)
- Sri Lanka president, PM, opposition leader support proposed UN-monitored reforms: Victor Ivan (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 […]
- Sri Lanka to fully implement QR code system in fuel rationing from Aug. 1 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president asks to crackdown black market fuel dealers (Category: Breaking News)
- Litro Chairman statement (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL accuses authorities of misleading the public on fuel (Category: Breaking News)
Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-chang expressed concern that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would have the ‘complete capability’ to attack Taiwan by 2025. The Minister expressed concern while also highlighted sanctions as the means to deter aggression during a virtual seminar titled “Taiwan: is it key to the continuing world order?” organised by The Democracy […]
- Xi Jinping’s Suppression of Hong Kong Democracy Pushes Taiwan Further From China (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan’s voice needs to be heard internationally: Canadian PM (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘One China’ principle and ‘One Country, Two Systems’ policy are ironical (Category: Breaking News)
- US defence chief slams China’s ‘destabilising’ activity near Taiwan (Category: Breaking News)
The widely acclaimed globalisation of the post-Cold-War era is now running in reverse. A protracted slowdown in global trade has been reinforced by persistent pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, ongoing pressures of the US-China trade war and efforts to align cross-border economic ties with geostrategic alliances, known as “friend-shoring”. These developments raise the pressure on China, [&...
- Sri Lanka turmoil highlights risk for Chinese firms investing overseas (Category: Breaking News)
- Elon Musk’s deal for Twitter raises concern about China’s influence over the platform (Category: Breaking News)
- Alibaba, HSBC, AIA pace rout in Hong Kong on Taiwan tensions as China promises ‘firm and strong’... (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese human rights lawyer Chang Weiping in closed-door trial as family barred from county (Category: Breaking News)
A long-running heatwave in China has pushed electricity usage to record levels in some areas and led to blackouts, with warnings that the high temperatures are expected to continue for at least another week. More than 300 cities were forecast to reach temperatures above 35C on Tuesday. China Southern Power Grid Company said Monday’s usage had surpassed […]
- Menaka and Krishni (Category: Breaking News)
- Speaker endorses Electricity (Amendment) Bill (Category: Breaking News)
- Threat of blackout as CEB unions launch strike (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s renewable energy capacity at 114 GW till June-end (Category: Breaking News)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered all civilians still living in parts of eastern Donetsk region under Ukrainian control to evacuate. Speaking during a late-night address from Kyiv, Mr Zelensky warned of an intensification of fighting. “The more people leave Donetsk
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