Commentary: Sri Lankans want change. They deserve continuity
Whoever wins the Sep 21 election must maintain a degree of policy stability if growth and prosperity are to return to Sri Lanka, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Mihir Sharma.
Whoever wins the Sep 21 election must maintain a degree of policy stability if growth and prosperity are to return to Sri Lanka, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Mihir Sharma.
Recent remarks from Chinese supremo Xi Jinping signal a possible shift in the country’s economic approach, observers say, with the Chinese government possibly preparing for more aggressive measures in 2025.
DUBAI - The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Friday it has received a report of an incident 45 nautical miles (83 kilometres) south of Yemen's Mokha.
COLOMBO - Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist policies to help the poor and stirring speeches have made him a leading candidate in Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday.
Guo, who maintains she is a natural-born Philippine citizen, has denied she is a spy.
More than 10,000 people have died in a decades-long insurgency waged by the Naxalite movement.
Dr Shah Nawaz is the second blasphemy suspect to be shot dead by police in the space of a week.
First-time applications from people seeking asylum in European Union countries declined in June, with Syrians, Venezuelans, and Afghans being the primary applicants, a report from the bloc's statistics agency Eurostat showed on Friday.
They were distributing pornographic content via chatrooms on the Telegram app.
KYIV - Ukraine's \"victory plan\" in the war against Russia depends on quick decisions being taken by allies this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday during a visit by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
MOSCOW - Russia warned the West and Ukraine on Friday of \"disastrous consequences\" if Kyiv moved against close Russian ally Belarus, making clear it would intervene to defend a country where it has deployed tactical nuclear weapons.
In recent years, the death penalty has rarely been carried out, and violent crime is relatively low.
Counterfeit products are prevalent, especially in big manufacturing centres like China.
Cabbage is a key ingredient of kimchi.
On social media, netizens have a tongue-in-cheek name for these promotion periods, calling them “beggar hour”.
Keppel’s electricity importer licence will be extended by another two years to 2026.
MANILA - The Philippines hopes to procure mid-range capability missiles in future and wants to utilise a U.S.-deployed Typhon system for its military training, with no immediate plan for it to be returned, a top security official said on Friday.
It stands alongside Darjeeling tea and champagne as products registered as intellectual property.
WARSAW - Polish authorities have arrested the former lawyer of late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in an investigation related to attacks on Russian opposition figures, Polish radio reported on Friday.
The government is also offering lower income tax rates for foreign workers as well as concessionary corporate tax rates to attract international firms.
MOSCOW - Russia said on Friday the West was applying blatant pressure on China over Taiwan and its \"provocative\" actions undermined regional stability and international security.
According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again China’s richest person, now with a net worth of more than A$65 billion (US$44.3 billion), placing him 27th globally. Close behind him in the rankings are bottled water
Stabbing of 10-year-old schoolboy in Shenzhen is the second attack on Japanese nationals this year.
BEIJING - China and Japan reached a consensus in August on the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday, bringing to an end a diplomatic dispute that had rumbled on for over two years.
He entered Parliament in 2000 and later served as Sri Lanka's deputy health minister.
Their followers blindly follow their leaders’ instructions, even when they run contrary to Islamic teachings.
A Reuters report claims that Indian-made artillery shells were diverted to Ukraine by some European countries.
TOKYO - China will revisit its ban on marine imports from Japan and work towards resuming imports following an expansion of regulatory monitoring of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday.
She accused the authorities in Jharkhand of releasing dam waters that inundated West Bengal.
MOSCOW - The United States should take into account Moscow's warnings on risks of further escalation around the conflict in Ukraine, Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday.
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka - Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the island nation say they have little hope that Saturday's presidential election will improve their lot by much.
Pre-orders for the Mate XT have surpassed 6.5 million, with prices in the black market going above $27,000.
The magnitude-5 earthquake, which left one dead and over 80 injured, damaged hundreds of houses with a loss of 385 billion rupiah and displaced more than 700 people.
He said it is critical to ensure New Zealanders feel safe in their homes.
The online casinos may also be linked to spying and elections manipulation, a senator says.
Zhong Yang is also accused of accepting nearly 60 million yuan in bribes.
After several tumultuous weeks in Israel, mass demonstrations increasingly depict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as directly responsible for the fate of the hostages still held by Hamas. Despite mounting internal and international pressure to negotiate a deal with Hamas for
They will talk about a new security initiative meant to tell China that its “maritime bullying” is unacceptable.
The pagers that exploded had labels pointing to a Taiwanese firm - but it denied making the devices.
There were over 300 passengers on the affected trains. Some bullet train services were suspended for five hours.
This weekend, the four leaders of the Quad will once again convene, this time in US President Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. The summit will double as a send-off for two of the leaders – it will be one of Kishida Fumio’s last acts as Japan’s prime minister, while