EDITORIALS
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THE BIG PICTURE
While the likes of Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are leading the way in adopting a string of coronavirus (COVID-19) containment measures that have proved to be largely effective at…
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STATE OF THE NATION
April – as the poet notes – is the cruellest month. For one, it breeds lilacs out of the dead land. For another, it mixes memory and desire to disastrous…
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THE BIG PICTURE
Recently renamed COVID-19 by the WHO, the coronavirus is causing havoc in most parts of the world. Parts of China and some regions
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JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE
The taped conversations of Ranjan Ramanayake with an assortment of persons have provided the general public with an unexpected
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IMPEACHMENT SCANDALS
There were whistleblowers and subpoenas, government leaks and dirty tricks, and an angry president lashing out at his critics. It was
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DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
When did you last consult a doctor or undergo a health screening? How traditional was the process? Did you sit for hours in the doctor’s
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ENERGY CRISIS
Dry weather and power cuts in Sri Lanka… it’s a tale as old as time itself. As the mercury rises in the early part of each year, citizen
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STATE OF THE NATION
The past month proved we live in the best of times, the worst of times. In this ‘tale of two cities,’ there are as many types of citizens
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THE BIG PICTURE
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s first two and a half months in high office have been marked by simplicity, a hands-on modus operandi
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POWER SHARING
Sri Lanka’s ethnic majority Sinhalese seemed to have overwhelmingly placed their trust in Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the recent
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