U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Laura DiBella and FMC Commissioner Robert J. Harvey will visit Sri Lanka from September 6–10, in a move aimed at advancing U.S.-Sri Lanka cooperation on maritime
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When Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) Government came to office in late 2024, it presented itself as a decisive break with the political culture that had dominated the country for decades.
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The month of August lived up to the caption of “the living, dead and disappeared.” The month saw the end of the 10-day Kandy Esala Perahera festival in all its glory. The
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The Indian rupee climbed to a two-month high on Thursday after a massive wave of overseas fundraising through special measures exceeded market expectations, strengthening the currency’s outlook as renewed U.S.-Iran conflict pushes
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Nearly 800 Indonesians have fallen ill in a series of separate food-poisoning incidents linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme, raising fresh questions over the safety and management of a
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JPMorgan Chase has sharply reduced the financing it provides to Jane Street, according to reporting by the Financial Times, as the secretive trading firm’s rapid expansion into the bond market brings it
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The Dutch central bank has moved more than 78 tonnes of gold from New York to London, in a politically sensitive decision that reflects growing concern among European institutions about the security
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For more than four decades, Jebel Ali has been at the heart of Dubai’s transformation from a regional trading centre into one of the world’s major commercial hubs. Now, the war between
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More than six decades after Fidel Castro declared education one of the central pillars of the Cuban Revolution, the country’s schools have opened for a new academic year under conditions the Government
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More than 20 million children and adolescents aged between 12 and 17 experienced at least one form of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse across 21 countries during a single year, according to
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