An environmental justice advocate has called for an international tribunal to hold transnational corporations accountable for environmental damage, citing the limited compensation reportedly paid following the X-Press Pearl disaster off Sri Lanka’s
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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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A constitutional and institutional dilemma is emerging at the heart of Sri Lanka’s Parliament over the position of its current Speaker, Jagath Wickramaratne, following reports that the
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Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director and daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her position following fraud investigations by the UN agency and
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Colombo High Court has ordered that further evidence in the bribery case filed against former Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody be heard on 5 October, as testimony continued over allegations linked to a
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Sri Lankan parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa was arrested on Friday morning by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption while appearing before the commission to provide a statement concerning the purchase
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Ohio State University has agreed to pay a US$2.1 million settlement to resolve allegations that it failed to disclose employees’ ties to China when applying for federal grant funding, the US Department
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The US Federal Trade Commission has sued Amazon, alleging that the ecommerce giant manipulated advertising auctions on its platform to increase the prices paid by advertisers, in a case that could further
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