by Our Correspondent in Colombo Serious allegations have emerged in Sri Lanka against Hatton National Bank (HNB), a prominent private sector bank, with multiple customers claiming that the institution has been quietly
It is ironic that the JVP-NPP government is now defending tainted ministers and downplaying corruption in the Parliament it came to power promising to clean up. A few weeks ago, it vehemently
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Sri Lanka’s government is facing intensifying criticism for what many observers describe as a defiant and dismissive response to corruption allegations against Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody, choosing to keep him in power
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Serious allegations have emerged in Sri Lanka against Hatton National Bank (HNB), a prominent private sector bank, with multiple customers claiming that the institution has been quietly
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The JVP-NPP government continues to signal left and turn right. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake often does the diametrical opposite of what he promised to do while he was an Opposition MP, so
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U.S. officials reveal President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of enriched uranium from Iran, a move that could escalate the conflict and put American forces in
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No sooner had Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody been indicted for corruption than he was released on bail last Friday. The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), which filed charges
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EY has set aside a record £188mn to cover regulatory fines and legal claims in the UK, underscoring intensifying pressure on the Big Four firm as it faces multiple investigations into the
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Tensions erupted at the Nugegoda headquarters of PickMe, one of Sri Lanka’s most popular ride-hailing apps, as a large group of drivers gathered to protest what they described as unfair treatment and
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Nestlé, the world’s largest bottled water company, is on trial in eastern France over allegations that it illegally dumped hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of plastic bottles, contaminating soils and water
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Thousands of Dutch citizens scrambling to leave the Middle East were drawn into a high-stakes narrative of evacuation flights that never took off, after the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, De Telegraaf, ran an
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