Sri Lanka is urging China to dramatically change its stance on debt relief, President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Nikkei Asia in an exclusive interview, conceding that reaching a deal will be no simple task
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Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka is grateful to Pope Francis for, taking the initiative to send €100,000 to help families of victims and survivors of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks
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Chinese loans financed Rajapaksa-era mega-infrastructure and vanity projects which have not been to the benefit of the people, and whose costs were allegedly inflated by hefty ‘commissions’ to the former first family and connected parties.…
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Parliament is increasingly seen as a self-indulgent body, largely irrelevant to the deteriorating lives of the people. Government has not taken any steps to organize economic relief, or distribute food and essentials efficiently, since the…
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Sri Lanka’s recent upheaval offers an extreme example of the world’s recent problems. Covid disrupted the country’s major industries, particularly tourism, and then leaders failed to adapt — setting off a chain of economic calamities,…
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Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim, who was the spearhead of an international peace process in Sri Lanka that failed, says the now ousted Rajapaksa brothers had no larger vision for their country and were into doing “politics for themselves”
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Ranil Wickremesinghe, the newly appointed prime minister of crisis-hit Sri Lanka, has said he is confident he can turn the economy around – but cautioned it will take 18 months before stability returns
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In his powerful documentary Sri Lanka’s Rebel Wife, film maker Kannan Arunasalam traces the story of Ananthy Sasitharan whose husband Elilan, a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)  fighter, disappeared in 2009 at the end of the war.…
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ri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the island nation hunts desperately for fuel amid an unprecedented economic crisis, the newly appointed prime minister said
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed to finish the remaining two years in his term despite months-long street protests calling for his ouster, but won’t stand for re-election as he focuses on fixing a financial mess that tipped Sri Lanka into…
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