Sri Lanka
Elon Musk To Rescue Sri Lanka From IMF Debt Bondage?
By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
Wearing Jokers’ masks a group of ‘Aragalaya’ Protestors rooted for Elon Musk to buy strategic and scenic Sri Lanka, at the center...
Sri Lankan court order foils EU sanctions-related bid to ground Russian...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Sri Lankan authorities have interdicted a fiscal officer associated with an attempt by an Irish plane-leasing company, to detain an Aeroflot passenger...
Sri Lanka’s new PM promises change but protects president
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Political developments in Sri Lanka have created an increasingly confusing picture in recent weeks. The surprise appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime...
Staged default: Sri Lanka’s sovereign bond debt trap and IMF’s Spring...
By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
28 April 2022
Debt cancellation, not asset stripping is the need of the hour
In Cherry Blossom lined Washington DC in the glare of...
Au sujet du Sri Lanka
par Jean - Pierre Page
Cette mise au point que je veux faire ici ne saurait signifier de ma part un quelconque soutien au président...
Sri Lanka’s youth in revolt, demand system change
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The ongoing anti-government protests taking place in Sri Lanka today are extraordinary, and unlike anything this country has seen before. Protests that...
Global food crisis fuels international class struggle
By Eric London
@EricLondonSEP
Apr 2, 2022
The war between the US-NATO and Russia in Ukraine has lit a fuse to the powder keg of the global...
Putin welcomes granting SCO dialogue partner status to three countries
According to Putin, "a fairly impressive portfolio of applications from other states wishing to cooperate with the organization in one capacity or another" requires...
Amid pressures from Quad, China discusses military ties with Sri Lanka
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
With the Indian Ocean increasingly becoming a locus of big power contestation, the recent two-day visit to Sri Lanka by Chinese Defence...
US’s Indian Ocean proxy war: Sri Lanka, Maldives in the crosshairs
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Apr.3, 2021
Maldivian parliamentarians have been up in arms since the government’s signing of a defence agreement with India in February which, according...