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Prolonged Iran conflict to ripple through corporate sectors globally: Fitch Ratings

Higher hydrocarbon prices, supply-chain disruption, and through weaker demand due to falling consumer confidence

March 22, 2026 3 min read

Risks for global insurers could rise under protracted Iran conflict: Fitch Ratings

A more prolonged period of economic and financial market volatility could indirectly affect insurers

March 17, 2026 3 min read

ADB to step up support for ASEAN as strategic financing and advisory partner

“In an uncertain world, Southeast Asia is choosing economic integration and cooperation,”

March 16, 2026 2 min read

Prolonged Iran disruption raises credit risk for APAC ports, airports: Fitch Ratings

APAC port and airport operators would face mixed but increasingly negative credit effects

March 12, 2026 3 min read
No neat and clean return to the way things were: IMF

Global disruptions are testing how the world moves goods and people

ADB downgrades Asia and Pacific growth outlook, raises inflation projections

Economies heavily reliant on imported fuel, remittances, tourism, or external financing

Sri Lanka foreign minister to attend ADB meeting

Sri Lanka's foreign minister Ali Sabry will attend a meeting of Asian Development Bank Governors, on May 02,2023

April 28, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka expects to tap tourism niche, trade with India ferry service

Entrepreneurs from Sri Lanka and India are encouraged to join this opportunity.

Melkishiya Andrew
April 21, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka and UK start strategic dialogue

The meeting will provide a platform for the countries to discuss various topics related to their bilateral relationship

April 17, 2023 1 min read
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China's $240 bln lending for 22 countries opaque, expensive, only for BRI nations - study

“China’s role as an international crisis manager has grown exponentially in recent years."

Neshella Perera
March 30, 2023 3 min read

Sri Lanka establishes committee to investigate aircraft incidents

From 2003 – 2021, Sri Lanka has encountered around 2,700 aircraft accidents and incidents.

Roshani Fernando
March 23, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lankan and Indian pilgrims join annual Kachchatheevu feast

They joined about 3000 Sri Lankan pilgrims who travel to the island every year.

March 5, 2023 1 min read
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Crisis hit Sri Lanka offers support to Turkiye

The earthquake that recorded a magnitude of 7.8 has killed around 7,962 in Turkey and Syria.

Melkishiya Andrew
February 8, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka awaits salvage of X-Press Pearl wreck to make second damage claim

Salvage had been delayed due to bad weather

February 1, 2023 2 min read

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden to step down in February

"It's one thing to lead your country through peace time, it's another to lead them through crisis," she said.

January 19, 2023 2 min read

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka allows banned Qatar Charity to open country office eying $11 mln

The charity’s accounts were frozen and a top lawyer was arrested arbitrarily for having linkings with ISIS

January 12, 2023 2 min read
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Sri Lanka to start seafood quality and quarantine process to enable China exports

“Specially for products such as sea cucumbers there is big demand…In India and China..”

January 3, 2023 1 min read

Bangladesh start-ups see progress

Bangladesh's startups grew nearly tenfold in the 2020/2021 period

Kshama Ranawana
January 1, 2023 3 min read

IMF urges Maldives to stop money printing to protect rufiyaa, as Sri Lanka rupee collapses

Directors advised that the MMA advances to the government be phased out to lower pressures on reserves

December 21, 2022 3 min read

Bhutan’s policies need restructuring to boost economy - experts

Bhutan is graduating to middle-income status but needs modern industry to sustain it

Kshama Ranawana
December 4, 2022 7 min read

Anwar: Not Malaysia’s Mandela, but something more

To those observing from the outside, it was a remarkable sight.

Krishantha Prasad Cooray
November 28, 2022 10 min read

The Maldives: Once Matriarchal Society is pushing women away from Leadership Roles

Maldivian women professionals and politicians ask, is it religion or society

November 20, 2022 6 min read

Trump launches Presidential bid to make America 'glorious'

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November 16, 2022 1 min read

Rishi Sunak named Tory leader, to be appointed UK's first ever non-white prime minister

Sunak is of Indian heritage and is a practising Hindu and will be the UK's first ever non-Christian prime minister.

October 24, 2022 1 min read

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announces resignation

Upon her succession, the UK will have its third prime minister of the year.

October 20, 2022 1 min read

Sri Aurobindo: Mystical Awareness Supplants Production

In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.

October 7, 2022 35 min read
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