A household inventory book from the official residence of Sri Lanka’s Speaker of Parliament, Jagath Wickramaratne, has gone missing while the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption is conducting an
A household inventory book from the official residence of Sri Lanka’s Speaker of Parliament, Jagath Wickramaratne, has gone missing while the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption is conducting an
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Swiss private bank Julius Baer committed serious violations of supervisory requirements covering risk management and anti-money-laundering controls, Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA said on Tuesday after concluding an investigation into the bank. The
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Sri Lanka’s archaeology chief says the nearly 300-year-old casket formerly used for the Sacred Tooth Relic should be preserved as an archaeological heritage artifact, regardless of the monetary value of its gold.
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Years after Easter, the unanswered “mastermind” question has become far more than a demand for justice. It has become entangled with institutional authority, political influence and questions of financial transparency. As Cardinal
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An internal investigation into an alleged large-scale fuel fraud at Sri Lanka’s Norochcholai Lakvijaya coal power plant has found that diesel worth more than Rs160 million issued for the facility was not
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Sri Lanka’s opposition is preparing to bring a no-confidence motion against parliamentary Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne containing 46 allegations concerning his official activities and the use of state property and resources, according to
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruling clearing the 22nd Amendment to proceed without a referendum has done more than settle a constitutional question. It has opened a deeper debate over the balance of
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Sri Lanka Customs paid more than Rs41 million last year for day and night meals for customs officers at the port premises without following the prescribed procurement process, according to a newly
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Sri Lanka’s electricity consumers have lost access to around 32,350 megawatt-hours of lower-cost electricity from the Norochcholai Lakvijaya Power Plant after the final shipment of coal procured under emergency purchases arrived eight
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Singapore has raised more than S$1.1 million (US$862,000) from the first auction of luxury goods seized in the country’s S$3 billion (US$2.35 billion) money laundering case, with intense competition for handbags and
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Photographs and claims circulating on social media have drawn attention to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s current visit to Italy and its alleged connection with his future as Archbishop of Colombo. The reports claim
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A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka’s Anti-Corruption Act No. 9 of 2023 has drawn strong concern from a coalition of 86 local and international civil society organisations, which says the changes could
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Reports claiming that Shiranti Rajapaksa, the wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left Sri Lanka despite having been summoned by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) have
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China’s securities regulator and its industry body are moving to close compensation and integrity loopholes across the brokerage industry, extending anti-corruption oversight to overseas operations for the first time as Beijing seeks
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I have read in the weekend newspapers that the Government is turning to desalination plants to provide drinking water to people in need, with the largest project in Jaffna reportedly estimated to
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