by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka, proposing the revival of a bilateral free-trade agreement,
by Our Economic Affairs Editor There is a certain poetic irony in the life of Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor. A man who, when our nation teetered on the
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The eagerly awaited Performance Report of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) for 2024 has recently been published. It offers some context regarding the IRD’s tax collections. There is room for wider disclosure
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When Mahinda Rajapaksa became President of Sri Lanka in 2005, the country faced two critical challenges: bringing an end to the long-running civil conflict and addressing decades of underinvestment in infrastructure. While
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X-Press Feeders, the former operator of the ill-fated container ship X-Press Pearl, has announced it is pausing payouts tied to what is now recognized as Sri Lanka’s largest environmental disaster. The decision
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Sri Lanka has undergone one of the sharpest and fastest episodes of austerity in history, driven by a massive retrenchment in public investment and the suppression of real wages, according to a
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CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls on the government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to halt the continued harassment of activists and journalists and crackdown on protests. One year since he
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor Recently, I had the privilege of visiting his residence in Greater Noida, India to deliberate on some of the most pressing strategic and geopolitical challenges confronting South
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A Sri Lankan state-owned bank has reportedly refused to open an account for a Russian diplomat posted in Colombo, drawing attention to possible implications for Sri Lanka’s
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Last week, the United States Trade Representative visited Sri Lanka and met with President Anura Kumara. Their discussions centred on the agreement reached regarding tariffs imposed on Sri Lanka by President Trump.
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Could the changes of power in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal in 2022, 2024, and 2025 resemble the violent shift at Plassey in 1757? The relevance of this question lies in historian
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