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EDITORIALS

  • Oct- 2022 -
    27 October

    THE BIG PICTURE

    DOUBLE TROUBLE Yes, Sri Lanka has faced and continues to face an acute shortage of foreign currency

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  • 27 October

    GEN Z PERSPECTIVES

    Bilateral relations between Japan and Sri Lanka, which go back 70 years, were initially focussed on religion and culture.

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  • 27 October

    STATE OF NUTRITION

    Once a popular tourist destination, Sri Lanka is now on the World Food Programme’s (WFP) list of hunger hotspots. A more macro view reveals that the

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  • 27 October

    ENERGY CRISIS SOLUTIONS

    Winter is around the corner for countries in the northern hemisphere and Europe may be in for a freezing season if the Kremlin stops supplying gas, oil, coal and heating…

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  • 27 October

    STATE OF THE NATION

    Not to be so blasé as babble about the weather but there’s a chill in the air… and it isn’t that ‘the north wind doth blow and we shall have…

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  • Sep- 2022 -
    29 September

    THE BIG PICTURE

    DOUBLE STANDARDS At a time when a reported 46 percent (i.e. more than 100 of the 225 parliamentarians

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  • 29 September

    STATE OF THE NATION

    The aragalaya that galvanised a nation into concerted people’s action seems to have gone with the wind. And the citizens who braved

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  • 29 September

    GEN Z PERSPECTIVES

    There is a widespread belief that power in the international arena is shifting from the Western world to Asia, potentially destabilising

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  • 29 September

    ELECTRONIC WASTE MANAGEMENT

    Humans are clever and we love anything labelled ‘smart.’ Phones, watches, speakers, cameras, locks… the list goes on. Yet, how savvy

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  • 29 September

    THE SMP SECTOR

    Without discernible distinction between wealthy and developing nations, COVID-19 has all but destroyed small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) worldwide. To add insult to injury

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