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Mar- 2017 -17 March
MARITIME PIRACY
Somali pirates on Thursday handed over an oil tanker and eight Sri Lankan hostages captured just days ago, the Oceans Beyond Piracy NGO told
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13 March
REGIONAL MARKETS
Asian markets mostly rose Monday following last week’s forecast-busting US jobs report but the dollar struggled against most other currencies
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10 March
PORT INVESTMENT
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is to scale back a profitable but controversial deal to sell a deep-sea port to a Chinese company after widespread protests
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6 March
HUMAN RIGHTS
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has rejected a fresh appeal from the United Nations to allow international judges to investigate alleged
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Feb- 2017 -20 February
EXTERNAL TRADE
Japan logged its first trade deficit in five months in January, official data showed Monday, as higher energy prices overwhelmed slower growth in exports
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17 February
LEGAL BARRIERS
Google’s venture to beam the internet to remote areas of the world via balloon has hit a legal snag in Sri Lanka that could see the project abandoned
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6 February
REGIONAL MARKETS
Asian markets rose Monday as investors tracked a record on Wall Street fuelled by a better than expected jump in US jobs, while
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Jan- 2017 -30 January
REGIONAL MARKETS
The dollar tumbled against its major peers in Asia on Monday while regional markets sank in holiday-thinned trade as dealers
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27 January
STATE BORROWINGS
Sri Lanka Thursday said it was stuck in a “gigantic debt trap” and that paying off foreign loans would hit a record US$ 2.4 billion
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16 January
MARKET REACTION
The pound struggled at 32-year lows against the dollar in Asia on Monday after reports said British Prime Minister Theresa May
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