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[…]The post Need To Address Root Causes To Get Out Of Geneva Spotlight appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe noted that the country needs a national policy that does not change with every government that comes to power and invited everyone to commit to building the country on one national policy without party differences.The post Sri Lanka needs a National Policy – President appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News...
- President says foreign exchange not sufficient to meet Sri Lanka’s needs (Category: Breaking News)
- Let’s solve economic issues by working within one policy framework – President (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President stresses need for new foreign policies (Category: Breaking News)
- 2023 Budget aimed at long-term, stable economic growth to be presented to Parliament tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. C. S. Weeraratna csweera@sltnet.lk Sri Lanka is a land of villages. There are around 14,000 of them. According to the Dept. of Census and Statistics, around 80% of the Sri Lankan population live in villages and estates. Most of them are farmers who are supposed to be suitable to be kings if the […]
- Poverty, Aswesuma and food security (Category: Breaking News)
- Achieving food security:Integrated plan necessary (Category: Breaking News)
- Overcoming Food Insecurity (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF deal and beyond (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's central bank is likely to maintain interest rates on Thursday in an effort to get a grip on inflation which has remained stubbornly high despite a sharp contraction in the crisis-hit economy.The post Sri Lanka Central Bank to hold rates as inflation worries persist appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka to hold rates as inflation slows slightly, focus on IMF bailout (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka threatens administrative measures over high market interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank holds policy interest rates at current levels (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank to hold rates as inflation stays high (Category: Breaking News)
[…]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 post The Paris Club, Dollar Debt Colonialism & Asia’s New “Donors”: Reforming The International Aid Architecture? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Debt Restructuring As Rocket Science: The IMF, Green, Blue & Pink-Washing BlackRock? (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Make The Economy Scream’: Whither The Asian 21st Century? (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota Back In The USA & A Chilling Killing: Welcome To 2023 A (Virtual) Realty In A Post-Truth Wo... (Category: Breaking News)
- Alternatives To The IMF & The Future Of The Welfare State: Beyond The Blame Game Between Superpo... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- The Magic 2048: What Is To Be Done To Make Ranilnomics A Reality? (Category: Breaking News)
Except 2 sessions, the market has witnessed foreign inflows in last 34 straight sessions.
- Intervention, moral suasion holds up rupee (Category: Breaking News)
- 2010 Net Inflow of Foreign Investments Rs.51.8 bn (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL to intervene in foreign exchange (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to increase rice exports (Category: Breaking News)
Exporters' main challenge is meeting orders due to fuel and power shortages and policy uncertainties.
- Steady Exports (Category: Business)
- Solutions Mechanism (Category: Business)
- Smooth Trade (Category: Business)
- Air Cargo (Category: Business)
Pakistan is allowing unlimited extraction and construction in Gilgit-Baltistan by China. The delicate ecology of the region will not be able to survive this exploitation. A toxic ‘friendship’ for Gilgit-Baltistan as its fragile ecology is ravaged. Pakistan’s current-day rulers (who represent the old colonial masters in manner and spirit) are nowhere to be found when […]
- What is China doing in Gilgit-Baltistan? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Woolmark way: ‘Grown in Australia, Made in India (Category: Breaking News)
- Gilgit Balistan needs change says Pak HRCP (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s developmental projects impacts climate, environment: Experts (Category: Breaking News)
A meeting was held with the minister and other stakeholders on September 06
- FAO to provide Urea, cash for crisis-hit Sri Lankan small-hold farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank to grant $110 mln loan to crisis-hit Sri Lanka for fertilizer import – Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka must rebuild agriculture sector immediately to prevent food shortages: PM (Category: Breaking News)
- European Union donates 3,820 tonnes of urea fertilizer to Sri Lanka’s paddy farmers (Category: Breaking News)
Nong Khai [Thailand], September 8 (ANI): The economic situation of Laos continues to worsen as the country is under a severe shortage of foreign reserves and owes a hefty sum of foreign debt to China as the country is suffering from twin deficits, a senior economist at Thailand’s Krungsri Research said in a statement. “The […]
- Sri Lanka must avoid China’s debt restructuring as Beijing is to seek preferential treatment (Category: Breaking News)
- India steadfast in its support of Sri Lanka during crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan: Over USD 13 billion debt incurred in 10 months (Category: Breaking News)
- Forbes: Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives among biggest debt burdens to China (Category: Breaking News)
Consumer inflation in Sri Lanka accelerated to 70.2% in August,the statistics department said on Wednesday, as the island nation reels under its worst economic crisis in decades.The post Sri Lanka inflation rate surges to 70.2% in August appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka consumer inflation hits record 73.7% in September (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate surges to record, keeps central bank pressured (Category: Breaking News)
- NCPI based headline inflation recorded at 70.2% on year-on-year basis in August 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President’s robust economic development program leads to 62.1% drop in inflation – Min... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Two Challenges: Economic Recovery & Political Devolution – IV (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
The week ended on September 15 saw 1027 suspected dengue cases reported in 23 districts
- Vaccine Hopes (Category: Business)
- Forex crunch boosts dengue spread (Category: Breaking News)
- Public Health Inspectors of Sri Lanka on strike amid a dengue outbreak (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka dengue cases double in first 19 weeks; shortage of chemicals weighs (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertiliser and fuel shortages during the nation's most severe financial crisis in more than seven decades.The post Sri Lanka’s economy shrinks 8.4
- Worker remittance income up in August amid Government incentives (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka economy shrinks 8.4-pct in 2Q amid currency crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President urges unity to safeguard economic stability amid IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. presses Sri Lanka to advance human rights amid economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
(PTI) The IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva yesterday (4) said she is pleased the Washington-based lender and the Sri Lankan government have reached a staff-level agreement to provide about $2.9 billion to help the bankrupt country, terming the deal as an “important step forward.” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced that it will provide […]
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China, says Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says 2.9bn loan bailout for Sri Lanka tied to debt relief from bilateral creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka crisis would deepen if creditors disagree, IMF says amid China concerns (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)
By N Sathiya Moorthy The nation needs to thank Education Minister Susil Premajayantha for his determination to keep all school-going children out of hunger’s grip. Twice in a few days, he has talked about providing free meals to school children. On the second occasion, he went as far as to declare that he was ready […]
- UN notes increase in abuse and violence against children in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNICEF and Rotary International partner to deliver critical lifesaving supplies to families impa... (Category: Breaking News)
- Learning crisis in Sri Lanka affecting vulnerable children (Category: Breaking News)
- Hiding more than revealing! (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis, has returned to the country after seven weeks.The post Sri Lanka’s ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns home after fleeing appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Latest Breaking N...
- Sri Lanka’s ruling party asks new president to help with ex-leader Rajapaksa’s return (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s ousted president expected to go to Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa concludes holiday in Dubai and returns to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's politicized petroleum sector has been mostly subsidized in post-independence era.
- India must win away (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, dies at 28 (Category: USA, Iowa)
- Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, dies at 28 (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Minnesota records 72 deaths on Wednesday (Category: USA, North Dakota)
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 […]
- Ukraine war: Russia wants to destroy Europeans’ normal life, Zelensky warns (Category: Breaking News)
- COP27: Russian invasion of Ukraine released 8 mn MT of carbon till September – report (Category: Breaking News)
- Proxy wars make unsettling comeback (Category: Breaking News)
- Fears of Europe-wide war rekindled as Finland joins NATO (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)
Wickremesinghe is budgeting in a sea of monetary instability
- Sri Lanka tax revenues grow 29-pct up to May amid inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s tragedy and the lost wisdom of D S Senanayake on money printing (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka banks cut foreign borrowings, see more deposit dollarization (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka plans to cut deficit to 6.8-pct of GDP in 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
"If there is no flour, we simply cannot produce,” said Jayawardena.
- Sri Lanka’s bakers call for price controls on wheat flour after hurting egg farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- It’s a matter of ‘two quid of betel’-Wimal (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s bakers, candy makers urge govt. to impose price controls; allow imports (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Acute shortage for wheat flour in Colombo due to price hike (Category: Breaking News)
UNP Chairman Wajira Abeywardena has declared that political parties represented in parliament should agree on a set of polices that should remain unchanged for a period of 25 years.A statement issued by the UNP quoted UNP National List MP Abeywardena as having told the media that a system should be in place to prevent overnight […]
- Reformists request Karu to take over (Category: Breaking News)
- Three rallies to be addressed by Dayasiri cancelled . (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith only for elected post (Category: Breaking News)
- Mega reforms needed to resurrect UNP - Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Haroon Janjua Despite gaining independence 75 years ago, Pakistan has yet to rid itself of economic and political crises. As Pakistan marks 75 years of independence this weekend, Islamabad has not planned any special events, aside from a flag-raising ceremony, a fireworks display in the capital and the introduction of a new 75 rupee […]
- Pakistan’s top judge plays down coup talk (Category: Business)
- Pakistan’s Imran Khan: Playboy cricketer to PM? (Category: Business)
- Dominant issue in Pakistan politics: Who will be next Army chief? (Category: Breaking News)
- Zardari returns to Pakistan amid memo saga (Category: Business)
Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group is suspending operations at its factory in Chengdu, capital of southwestern Sichuan province, for six days amid a regional electricity shortage that has put pressure on iPad supplies ahead of the US tech giant’s annual product launch. The Chengdu campus of Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, is shutting down all […]
- China’s dual-use surveillance ship in Sri Lankan port underscores distrust of Beijing’s tech adv... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka turmoil highlights risk for Chinese firms investing overseas (Category: Breaking News)
- Alibaba, HSBC, AIA pace rout in Hong Kong on Taiwan tensions as China promises ‘firm and strong’... (Category: Breaking News)
- Tibet again causes friction between China and India, and it doesn’t bode well for ties (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Reliance On Repression Will Worsen Current Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Criminalising Public Protest Will Only Delay The Inevitable (Category: Breaking News)
- Pardons & Amnesties To Heal The Divided Nation (Category: Breaking News)
- Non-Consultative Business As Usual Approach Belittles Nation Crises That Cry For Priority (Category: Breaking News)
- Calibrating The Time & Mode Of Elections (Category: Breaking News)
Huawei launched Asia Pacific Seeds for the Future 2022 in collaboration with ASEAN Foundation and Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). From August 19 to 27, the program will bring together 120 outstanding students from 16 countries including Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Phillipines across the Asia Pacific […]
- President Wickremesinghe visits Huawei Company in China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President inked agreement with Huawei company for digitization of Sri Lanka’s schools (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka looks to work closer with ASEAN (Category: Breaking News)
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