2020-11-18 13:49:00
When Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban said in September that rooting for the re-election of Donald Trump was his “Plan A”, he was probably echoing the sentiments..
2020-11-16 14:56:00
COVID-19 has triggered the deepest global recession in decades. While the ultimate outcome is still uncertain, the pandemic will result in economic contractions across the vast majority of emerging markets and developing economies...
2020-11-16 14:10:00
A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss, a debt pile-up, an overwhelmed public health system – and the Gotabaya-Mahinda government is planning to build a leisure park near the Peralanda wetland in Ragama...
2020-11-14 11:27:00
Based on more than 100 contributions from international experts, it offers 250 recommendations on how to rein in a phenomenon that threatens democracies and human rights, including the right to health...
2020-11-13 03:25:00
A new study claims we may have already reached a hypothetical ‘point of no return’, but other researchers say this is ‘at odds’ with what we know about climate science. Daisy Dunne examines the arguments..
2020-11-13 02:25:00
Demand for the spice, believed to have immunity-boosting qualities, has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic..
2020-11-10 19:28:00
While the health crisis continues to ravage the country, Sri Lanka cannot ignore the socio-economic inequalities that are widened as a result of the COVID-19 situation...
2020-11-10 00:52:00
For people living with HIV, also known as PLHIV, the struggles may have been significant in the context of Covid-19, catering to difficulties of being able to access health-services for their medication, safe environments and discrimination-free social interaction...
2020-11-08 15:51:00
While many believed in Trump’s ability to handle the economy better, his presidency was full of petty battles in which he seemed to relish, as chaos reigned around him...
2020-11-07 18:06:00
Why is there a need for a constitutional change? Is it to make the already bad situation worse? Or is it to undo, the state of disorder brought about by the 1978 constitution...
2020-11-06 09:13:00
During the period when the first wave of Covid 19 was spreading in Sri Lanka, Lanka News Web published an extensive and investigative article on the subject by Major General Dr. Boniface Perera, which received a high response from the regime as well as the general public...
2020-11-05 21:22:00
After a three-year delay, the US has become the first nation in the world to formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement...
2020-11-04 03:25:00
The last time CO2 concentrations reached today’s level was 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch. Hear from geoscientists who see evolving conditions in the Arctic as an indicator of how climate change could transform the planet...
2020-11-02 23:06:00
Authored by Ms. Ayushka Nugaliyadda, Ms. Bhagya Maheshi and Ms. Sarika Warusavitarana of Citra Social Innovation Lab..
2020-11-02 20:52:00
October was a bleak month for freedom of expression with four cases of assault against five provincial journalists. All five journalists had to be hospitalized...
2020-11-01 17:49:00
According to Bloomberg Sri Lanka has tumbled from best to worst in Asia’s dollar bond market, underscoring how fast the pandemic can chill sentiment toward weaker emerging-market assets...
2020-11-01 15:55:00
Sri Lanka has tumbled from best to worst in Asia’s dollar bond market, underscoring how fast the pandemic can chill sentiment toward weaker emerging-market assets...
2020-11-01 14:20:00
It has exposed the dark underbelly of the American political system and left us all wondering whether America, the world’s oldest modern democracy, will indeed prove to be a democracy at all?..
2020-10-31 17:25:00
Rivett-Carnac is a founding partner of Global Optimism and co-author of The Future We Choose..
2020-10-31 14:59:00
In late October, sea ice off Siberia has only now begun to start freezing — an unprecedented situation for that part of the Arctic..
2020-10-28 01:35:00
Enhancing the Sri Lankan response to COVID-19: Communique from the College of Consultant Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL)..
2020-10-25 23:07:00
Sri Lanka must not build a wall around our nation, instead we must build bridges from our country to the region and beyond. That is how we could build the national economy and achieve our overall objective of development...
2020-10-25 07:45:00
Pompeo to visit Delhi, Colombo, the Maldives and Jakarta in coming days; US wants Rajapaksa government to loosen ties with Beijing, but it has already proposed a free-trade agreement with China..
2020-10-24 17:12:00
Sri Lanka’s parliament has approved constitutional changes that give more power to the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, leading to fears the authoritarian leader will strengthen his hold on the country...
2020-10-24 12:55:00
The new powers that he got with the support of eight crossovers from the Opposition, which his brother former President Mahinda Rajapaksa enjoyed, must now be used to get the job done fast, efficiently and professionally...
2020-10-22 00:13:00
“October Revolution” is a term that used to gladden the hearts of Communist stalwarts the world over, our own left parties included...
2020-10-20 21:41:00
The writer is the Immediate Past Chairman of the FHA with 25 years of experience in finance industry...
2020-10-20 15:35:00
Bradman Weerakoon, arguably the most veteran diplomat in Sri Lanka, turns 90 today...
2020-10-19 21:19:00
Labour’s historic win delivered Ardern a second term while voters punished politicians who embraced populism..
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