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December 3, 2025

Speeches/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Hard Reset: A Nation Rebuilding Its Future

Editor’s Editor: The following article is based on the speech delivered by the author as the Chairperson of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce at the Sri Lanka Economic and Investment Summit 2025.

Starmer vows to “fix the foundations” of UK

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) Keir Starmer on Tuesday vowed to “fix the foundations” of the country after “a decade of division and decline.” In a major speech delivered ahead of parliament’s return from summer recess next week,

August 28, 2024

Sri Lanka’s Hard Reset: A Nation Rebuilding Its Future

December 3, 2025

Speeches/Sri Lanka

Editor’s Editor: The following article is based on the speech delivered by the author as the Chairperson of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce at the Sri Lanka Economic and Investment Summit 2025.

Starmer vows to “fix the foundations” of UK

August 28, 2024

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) Keir Starmer on Tuesday vowed to “fix the foundations” of the country after “a decade of division and decline.” In a major speech delivered ahead

Is Still Smells of Sulphur: 20 Years Since Chávez’s Speech at the UN

Chávez arrived at the General Assembly with a book in

Bangladesh’s One-Party Warning

On September 10, 2026, the formation of 50 parliamentary standing

Sri Lanka’s Judiciary on the Constitutional Fault Line

In the longer term, the 22nd Amendment could signal the

Balochistan’s Daughters, Not Its Detonators

There is a particular cruelty in watching a militant group

From citizens’ calls to city action: Inside a Chinese hotline

When Krisca, an international student in east China’s Shandong Province,

The Plot That Shook Bangladesh

The American conspiracy will soon perish in the ruins of

Russia’s Covert War Reaches America

The United States has spent years confronting Russian influence operations,

Where Does Free Speech End?

Last year, in 2025, 354 civilians were killed in terrorist

Will Russian Drones Show Up in North Korea?

North Korea is sending increasing numbers of workers to Russia’s

Pinglu Canal: From a shorter route to closer China – ASEAN ties

The Pinglu Canal is more than a shortcut to the

BRICS+ Summit: Between Promises and Contradictions

The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13,

From Gwadar to the Gulf

The emerging maritime partnership between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port and Oman’s

The War Beneath the War

The war between Iran and a US-Israeli-led coalition, which began

Is Nicaragua Trump’s Next Target?

After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its

Taliban’s Selective Counterterrorism Is Exporting Insecurity

Five years after returning to power, the Taliban controls Afghanistan