Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
With the Iran war overshadowing life in the Arab world, water and food have become two resources in severe shortage in this oil-rich region—things that all the money they possess cannot buy
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Sri Lanka’s remittances from its overseas expatriate workers rose to a near-record high, increasing by 21.1 percent to $693.3 million in March 2025 compared to the same month last year, helped by
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Some of the critical challenges facing the AKD Government today are not dissimilar to those encountered in the 1970s. Back then, it was a right-wing government led by President J.R. Jayawardena. We
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Almost everyone in Sri Lanka knows that economic stability must be established if we are to be considered a stable and reliable government. Years, if not decades, of mismanagement, or “vedamathaya” and/or
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There is a change taking place in many countries around the world, all presumably moving towards a new vision, perhaps with a better understanding and resolution of today’s problems. Women are playing
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Let me think back to the USSR. Soviet nostalgia is still alive and well in today’s Russia. Looking back at the USSR, which existed from 1922 to 1991, is like taking a
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As war approaches Moscow, with Ukraine retaliating through drone attacks and Britain training 42,050 Ukrainian soldiers since the invasion, there is growing concern that British soldiers and their training camps may be
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The British rock band Oasis announced their long-awaited reunion on Tuesday, 27 August 2024, with estranged brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher set to join each other on stage for the first time
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Every new government, whether in Sri Lanka or the United Kingdom, arrives with certain ambitions: to prove its independence and cut through red tape and bureaucracy within a short period. In the
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Who would have believed that nearly 80 years after the Battle of Kursk between Russia and Germany during World War II, a similarly fierce conflict would unfold, this time with Ukraine fighting
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