Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
Business leaders and representatives from various chambers and unions gathered at the Presidential Secretariat for a meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The discussions focused on the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) program and
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De-dollarization is apparently here, “like it or not,” as a May 2023 video by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a peace-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., states. Quincy is not alone
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The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) headquarters are in the heart of Washington, a stone’s throw from the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Treasury Department, Organisation of American States (OAS) and Federal Reserve (the
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by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Other than global economic and social imbalances, and climate change, defining and protecting human rights is the most important challenge for the international community. “Whole-process people’s democracy” is
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The common path followed by almost all IMF member countries in response to sovereign debt crises in recent decades,is to enter into an IMF supported stabilisation and structural adjustment programme. Sri Lanka
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The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Business Network International (BNI) will host a Forum titled ‘Building a Global Sri Lanka – Networking the Way Forward’, on June 13th at the
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As for food security, the foundation would do better by supporting agroecological (agrochemical-free) approaches to agriculture, which various high-level UN reports have advocated for ensuring equitable global food security. This would leave
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The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the U.S. plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, the BRICS economies
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In a significant development for India’s cruise tourism industry, the country’s first international cruise ship, MV Empress, was launched from Chennai, setting sail to Sri Lanka. The ship, carrying 750 passengers, aims
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“We may travel the four corners of the world, but our job is to make you feel at home.” International Flight Attendants’ Day – also called International Cabin Crew Members’ Day –
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