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There is always a method to Chinese madness and this applies to its “Xiaokang Villages” also. Construction of these villages began across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) just over a decade ago, China has today began populating them. The delay in getting residents for these villages is probably because of the reluctance of Tibetans […]
- China’s approach to develop border areas centred on coercion and encroachment (Category: Breaking News)
- Pentagon report claims China considered Sri Lanka for military logistic support (Category: Breaking News)
- India-China border skirmish signals volatile ‘new normal’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Coup a further complication for tricky Myanmar-China ties (Category: USA, South Dakota)
[…]The post Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Merely Focussing On Hamas Attacks – Missing The Wood For The Trees! (Category: Breaking News)
- Isn’t It Time For Sri Lanka To Expel Israelis? (Category: Breaking News)
- If It Is Not ‘Genocide’ In Gaza, Then What Should We Call It? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of A ‘UN Day Of Palestinian Solidarity’ – In A World Carrying Its Past Guilt! (Category: Breaking News)
A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. At least 60 Indians have killed themselves after being abused and threatened. A BBC undercover investigation has exposed those profiting from this deadly scam in India and China. Astha Sinhaa woke […]
- Hezbollah steps back from all-out war on Israel over Gaza – for now (Category: Breaking News)
- Nikki Haley exits race but stops short of endorsing Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (Category: Breaking News)
- Poles prepare to vote as rivals end acrimonious campaign (Category: Breaking News)
Some of Sri Lanka’s official creditors are advocating for a debt restructuring agreement that excludes China, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (28.) This move, if successful, could have implications for how wealthier nations handle financial stress in developing economies. The proposal involves major creditors, including the US, Japan, and India, signing a memorandum of understanding with [...
- Info about USD 4.2 bn debt deal with China shared with other creditors – CBSL Chief (Category: Breaking News)
- Some Sri Lanka creditors seeking debt restructuring deal without China - Bloomberg (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka confident of meeting conditions for IMF funding soon (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says 2.9bn loan bailout for Sri Lanka tied to debt relief from bilateral creditors (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 5 Prominent Criteria: How to Know If a Site Is Safe for Online Gambling? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- JVP Slams Govt. Decision To Move Justice Ministry To WTC At Rs 400 Million Cost (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP Slams Govt. Decision To Move Justice Ministry To WTC At Rs 400 Million Cost (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP Slams Govt. Decision To Move Justice Ministry To WTC At Rs 400 Million Cost (Category: Breaking News)
- Perks For Gota’s Personal Posse: Rs 400 Million To Move Ali Sabry’s Justice Ministry To WTC For ... (Category: Breaking News)
Tens of thousands of civilians and Russian-appointed officials are being moved out of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region ahead of a Ukrainian offensive, says the Russia-installed local leader. Vladimir Saldo said all Russian-appointed departments and ministries would cross the Dnieper river. Some 50-60,000 civilians would also leave in an “organised, gradual displacement”, he said...
- Massive Russian strikes target energy grid in Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- Putin signs Ukraine annexation laws amid military setbacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky denies Ukraine attacked Putin or Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Anniversary Angst (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post ‘Aragalaya’ – From The Spark To The Conflagration appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Taxing Without A Mandate (Category: Breaking News)
- JR Jayewardene And The 20 Amendment (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A White Paper For A Draft Campaign Finance Regulation Bill/Act appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Bribing voters (Category: Breaking News)
- 2024 Election Year; The Perennial Challenge Of Cleaning The Stables For Sri Lanka! (Category: Breaking News)
- System Changes Are Critical For Our General Election Process To Produce A Genuinely Democratic, ... (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s Election Timetable & Sri Lanka’s Deadlock Elections (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has been facing a severe economic crisis since the beginning of 2021 and was trying to cushion the effect of the financial instability by seeking help from almost all friendly countries. Sri Lanka sought the intervention of the good offices of the political hierarchy of Bangladesh and Pakistan, apart from India, for much-needed […]
- China assures will not harm Sri Lanka’s interests (Category: Breaking News)
- China only observer in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring platform (Category: Breaking News)
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s attitude puzzles Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
- “3 Easy Steps to Protect Your Privacy Online” (Category: Breaking News)
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- The Darusman (UN) Report was inevitable due to colossal failure by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas using Sinhala spremacism to win Southern consent for anti-democratic constitutional r... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa treatment of Fonseka is like Prabhakaran tratment of Mahathaya (Category: Breaking News)
Last week’s My View talked about six popular fallacies of currency or exchange rate appreciation which both the authorities and the public have tended to harbour in themselves. Of them, the following three were discussed in detail: Fallacy One: The government can fix the external value of a currency at any level it wishes. Fallacy ...
- Appreciating the exchange rate to create prosperity (Category: Business)
- External value of the rupee: Market driven or Central Bank driven? (Category: Business)
- Appreciating exchange rates: Not a boon always (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka swims against Asian currency depreciation tide (Category: Business)
Gives comprehensive address highlighting issues of developing countries Shoots down discriminatory practices by developed countries Outlines post-war development, reiterates stance against terrorism Backs Palestine, Cuba and Africa By Nisthar Cassim in New York In his much-anticipated address to the UN, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday took a comprehensive local, regional and world view, with...
- CB releases full details on new laws to curb terrorism funding and money laundering (Category: Business)
- LTTE was engaged in the drug trade to finance itself – Kohona (Category: Business)
- Lankan envoy in US hosts National Press Club’s Intl. Correspondents (Category: Business)
By Dinali Goonewardene As stock markets the world over strongly slid downwards on fears of slowing economic growth, foreigners took their money out of the Colombo stock market yesterday, contributing to a seven-week low. Foreign sales were Rs. 70 million and net foreign outflows Rs. 21.8 million, albeit a relatively low component of total turnover. ...
- Blue Chips attract more foreign buying (Category: Business)
- Market moves up marginally (Category: Business)
- Asia Asset Finance soars on debut (Category: Business)
- Market rebounds as sentiment improves (Category: Business)
Aug 01, Colombo: The A Singapore-based international arbitrator has dismissed a Citi Bank claim against Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on the payment of soured hedging deal, Reuters report said citing anonymous sources .
"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." The recent New York Times article about the 11th Tradition and anonymity stirred up a lot of controversy. But I think the 12th Tradition is ultimately more important. When you walk into a 12-Step meeting you drop a big part of your identity. Certainly you drop your...
- Year Of The Iron Tiger: Sex Addiction, Celebrity And 12-Step Buddhist Recovery (Category: Features)
- Kevin Griffin: One Blog at a Time: The First Step in Buddhism and AA is Letting Go (Category: Features)
- Kevin Griffin: Recovery Through The Higher Power Of Karma (Category: Features)
18 Days That Shook The World How People Power Worked By Charles Levinson And Margaret Coker Hosni Mubarak was thrust by violence into the leadership of the Arab world’s most populous country, and has been forced out by a wave of popular protest. Stability had been the watchword of his presidency, with emergency law — ...
- U.S. is both angel, devil for Egyptian protesters (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Egypt soccer violence kills 74, fans turn on army (Category: Business)
- Chaos erupts in Cairo as Mubarak supporters attack protesters (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Egyptian Peoples Revolt Has Deep Lessons For Both Oppressed and Oppressor in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Indi Samarajiva Behind every conspiracy, there’s a Private First Class, getting the coffee. There have always been leaks. WikiLeaks is just a digital bucket. The Leaks Bradley Manning had been busted down to Private First Class for assaulting an officer. It was the latest in a series of troubles for the 22 year old ...
- Assange calls on US to end witchhunt against WikiLeaks and release Manning (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Wikileaks Lead To Transparency In Diplomacy? (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Wikileaks Hurt America? (Category: Breaking News)
- Wiki-leaker to be court martialed (Category: Breaking News)
A 40-year-old man has been charged in connection with the robbery of a Palmetto Citizen's Federal Credit Union, the Richland County Sheriffs Department announced Tuesday.Curtis Ray Schoclet was charged with armed robbery and kidnapping in the incident Monday at Palmetto Citizen's branch on Atrium Way, according to the department, adding the kidnapping charge stems from the suspect holding a telle...
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