Labour

GENEVA - The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, will undertake his first country visit to Sri Lanka from November 26 to December 3. He will examine the labour conditions in various economic sectors,…
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By Damien Cave and Christopher F. Schuetze As the global economy heats up and tries to put the pandemic aside, a battle for the young and able has begun. With fast-track visas and promises of permanent residency, many of the wealthy…
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COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s preferential trade access to the European Union (EU), which is the biggest market for its US$ 5 billion apparel industry, is in doubt with an investigation into the island country’s human rights and governance concerns…
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By Sui Lee Wee  BEIJING - China said Monday (31) it would allow all married couples to have three children, ending a two-child policy that has failed to raise the country’s declining birth rates and avert a demographic crisis. The…
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By P.K. Balachandran COLOMBO - When the British ruled Sri Lanka, peasant agriculture, with paddy as the main crop, was systematically destroyed to yield place to plantation-based commercial agriculture monopolized by them. Sri Lankan…
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