EDITORIALS
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SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
Despite the economic costs, the government made a timely decision to tackle the COVID-19 threat. It sought to restrict the mobility of people and their interactions
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
In this period of continued lockdown across many parts of the world, there’s been a seemingly endless stream of conspiracy theories in relation to the origins of the disease
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SPACE EXPLORATION
The moon has been desolate since 1972. A few have tried to revisit it but haven’t succeeded. After all, having conquered and planted
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COVID-19 WORLD VIEW
In July 2003, the Beijing Municipal Council announced that the SARS virus had cost Beijing’s tourism industry a mammoth US$ 4.8 billion. At the same time, the WHO declared
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THE BIG PICTURE
In what is a highly fluid landscape both here in Sri Lanka and across the seas, against a backdrop of the highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we have surely done…
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STATE OF THE NATION
I never thought so many critics of three-cornered democracy would miss the agency of a legislature. But in a crisis of the proportions that the COVID-19 pandemic created, you tend…
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THE MODERN STATESMAN
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has an opportunity to be a leader in the mode of Lee Kuan Yew who was no-nonsense and firm when it came to dealing with political opponents
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THE CORONAVIRUS
Paracetamol – a drug that many take for granted as being readily available – counts India as its largest global supplier. And in March amid the coronavirus (COVID-19)
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SPACE TALK
Between satellites and drones, there is a wide business gap that’s being filled by balloons. Satellites served as the earliest eyes in the sky – a race that began
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SRI LANKAN IDENTITY
If President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had hoped to develop a united country following the 16 November 2019 presidential election, what he inherited instead was a polarised
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