By Amal Jayasingher in The Island, June 4, 20223 When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka’s holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo’s cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops.President Ranil Wickremesinghe dispatched a high-powered team of experts to the 2,300-year-old Sri Maha Bodhi tree in the sacred city of Anuradhapura, an ancient capital of the South Asian nation. It included the head of the telecom regulator, his technical…
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By Kasun Warakapitiya in The Sunday Times, May 28, 2023 The Chinese Embassy has requested local authorities to deport a Chinese businessman, who on Thursday, attempted to enter Sri Lanka on a forged passport, Immigration officials said. However, the businessman Li Pan, is refusing to go to China and has now petitioned the Court of Appeal against his deportation. The case is being heard tomorrow, Immigration and Emigration Controller General I. S. H. J. Ilukpitiya…
By Asiri Fernando in The Morning, Apr 16, 2023A controversial allegation made by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP Sivagnanam Shritharan that hundreds of acres of land from the north were being handed over to China as part of Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process was yesterday (15) rubbished by Secretary to the President Saman Ekanayake. Shritharan on Thursday (13) made the controversial statement at a press conference held in Kilinochchi, claiming that the TNA…
report on ECONOMYNEXT.COM, Dec 22, 2022 at8:52 pm– The delay in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board approval on a $2.9 billion loan for Sri Lanka is not only due to a dragging Chinese debt restructuring talks, a top official who is directly involved with the debt restructuring negotiation said. “We can’t say it is China. In fact, we can’t say it is a delay because the bilateral creditors have asked for more information and…