China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, has expressed China’s growing interest in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka during his second visit to the province. Ambassador Qi Zhenhong emphasized the potential
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by Xiong Maoling and Matthew Rusling Recently released data showed that U.S. federal deficit in fiscal year 2023 expanded significantly, with already elevated U.S. debt piling up. Why U.S. budget deficit keeps
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The opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has dropped by an estimated 95 percent since the country’s caretaker government imposed a drug ban in April 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and
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by Nivedita Mukherjee India will work closely with Sri Lanka on discussions regarding debt restructuring as well as on the path of its economic recovery, with greater collaboration in promotion of digital
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Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry. Such a characterisation fulfils three distinct theoretical functions from
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected on Sunday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s request for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, according to a Palestinian official. The official told Xinhua that Blinken
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by Wang Aona, Nurul Fitri Ramadhani The extreme El Nino phenomenon in Indonesia has disrupted the rice production in the largest economy of Southeast Asia, which has resorted to imports to secure
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Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize[our] common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside
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A delegation of newly appointed High Commissioners and Ambassadors to various Sri Lankan Missions abroad paid a courtesy visit to Vicar General (Jaffna), Rt Rev J P Jenarathnam today at the Jaffna
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“The fusion of ultra-conservative Saudi Wahhabite Islam with the Muslim Brotherhood’s fanatical political activism was a deadly and highly shrewd combination that never lost sight of its goal of building a new
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SHOULD THE WORLD DOSCOUNT NUCLEAR ESCALATION? The world is watching apprehensively how the richest and the second richest countries in the world behave because unless they either fall into the Thucydides Trap
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Our country has enormous potential but needs to exploit it. Who can we ask to do it for us but our own people? Failing to make what it needs to turn around
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by Santosh Mathew On 14 October 2023, the long awaited ferry service between India and Sri Lanka was green-flagged. It is after four decades that the regular ferry service is being restarted.
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State on State wars are back as marked by major conflict trends today. Within two decades the trajectory of international security which was defined by global terrorism post 9/11, is now increasingly
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The following article is based on a speech by the author in their capacity as the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. At the beginning of my address, I will quote the
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