China has adopted a new law targeting cross-border corruption and ratified an agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, as part of a series of legislative decisions approved by the Standing
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has reassigned financial control of the National Audit Office (NAO) to the Treasury Secretary. The decision comes amid a prolonged leadership vacuum in the Auditor General’s
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The Rebuild Sri Lanka Fund, presented by the government as a cornerstone of the country’s national recovery effort, has been thrust into sharp controversy after opposition MP Harsha de Silva publicly declared
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A rice tycoon has become a clout chaser, posting ostentatiously on social media about his extravagance ad nauseam. He has been TikToking his newly acquired Rolls-Royce to boost his ego and online visibility.
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A university degree is supposed to prove that someone has studied, researched and earned a place in the professional world. In Sri Lanka, that meaning is collapsing. The same culture that sees
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Sri Lanka is grappling with a fresh controversy in its energy sector after former Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka revealed that two laboratory tests at the Norochcholai Lakvijaya Power
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Ukraine’s political landscape has been jolted on the eve of a critical election, as former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko faces bribery charges from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption
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Corruption has eaten into the vitals of Sri Lanka’s power and energy sectors to such an extent that one wonders whether ‘C’ in the initialisms of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and
More Sri Lanka’s energy sector has been thrust into renewed turmoil after detailed laboratory test results from the Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant revealed that recently imported coal fails to meet multiple technical standards
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Global health authorities have issued warnings about counterfeit rabies vaccines circulating in India. The Australian Health Department recently urged its citizens to check if they had received the Abhayrab vaccine, which is
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Questions over alleged corruption in Sri Lanka’s energy sector intensified in Parliament on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers accused the government of irregularities in the awarding of a major coal supply tender for
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A Reuters investigation has found that Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, chose to tolerate high levels of fraudulent advertising from China despite internal findings that billions of dollars in
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by Our Correspondent in Kathmandu Nepal’s anti-corruption agency has filed sweeping charges against 55 individuals and a Chinese construction company in what has become the country’s largest-ever corruption case, targeting alleged financial
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Revenues at China’s top military firms fell last year as a sweeping anti-corruption drive disrupted arms contracts and procurement, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the most personal and political pressure of his tenure as his closest aide resigns amid a corruption investigation and questions mount over his war strategy. According
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by Durga Velayudham In recent weeks, reports have emerged that BYD offered a “super tour” of China to media professionals and social-media influencers from abroad — including from Sri Lanka — as
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