For generations of aspiring investors, Robert Kiyosaki’s name has been closely associated with a simple but provocative proposition: debt can be a tool for building wealth. His 1997 bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Tuesday urged governments to protect the world’s oceans by finalizing a long-awaited High Seas Treaty at the United Nations (UN) in New York this
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by Our Legal Affairs Correspondent “The role of a judge is not to legislate from the bench or to impose personal views on the law. Rather, it is to interpret the law
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“It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget … there is evil everywhere under the sun.” The stinging famous line written by “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie
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At a gathering of women for a home cooked meal at Thai Pongal, a Hindu harvest festival, in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, a Muslim woman remarked that last year 65
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Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length. A video of the description of nuclear war from the interview can be viewed on Vimeo. Listen to the entire interview, available for
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The modern globalized world has made it easier and far more lucrative to facilitate and enable international drug networks, and several governments, or elements within them, actively work with criminal groups to support
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For too long, we have relied on women and girls to provide care and support to family and community members, with three-quarters of unpaid care work being done globally by women and
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Click here to read Part One of this series. Limited land Resource As Sri Lanka is a county with highly diversified agroecological zones and two main cultivation seasons, most crops cultivated in
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There cannot be any doubt that if Sri Lanka needs to get out of the present mess of economic fallout and political authoritarianism, solutions need to be worked out scientifically and objectively.
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Whilst enveloped in deep socio-economic crises caused by the successive inept and divisive political leadership in power, since the island country gained its independence from the British colonial rule, in February 1948,
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