e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 22-28 December 2024 * In 1770, William Pitt the Elder (then Earl of Chatham), ‘made uneasy by the first manufacturing attempts of the New Englanders, declared that the colonies should not be permitted to manufacture so much as a horseshoe nail’ […]

C. Wijeyawickrema මේ දිනවල ජනාධිපති AKD ගේ ආණ්ඩුව දෛනිකව මුහුණ පානා ඇබ්බැද්දි දකිනවිට මට ඇමෙරිකාවේ ජනාධිපතිලා දෙන්නෙක් ඒවාට මුහුණ දුන් අන්දම මතකයට ආවේය. ඇමතිකෙනෙක් හෝ මන්ත්‍රී කෙනෙක්ගේ යම් අහිතකර කතාවක් හෝ ක්‍රියාවක් නිසා ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රතිරූපයට ඩැමේජ් එකක්වූ විට, එයට අවංක ලෙස මුහුණදී කල වරද නිවැරදි කර ගන්නවා වෙනුවට එය සුදුහුණු ගා වැසිය හැකියයි සිතා ක්‍රියාකිරීමෙන් […]

Courtesy The Guardian (UK) Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justify his wading into German politics The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Sarath Amunugama observed that one of the many items which made Maname special was its melodious music. [1]Sarachchandra was an   accomplished musician. He had gone to Santiniketan in the 1940s to study music.  However, in his Pin ati Sarasavi, he spoke of ‘veenawa ata pata gawa,’ so I thought he was a dilettante […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Why Finland Needs Foreigners?  Force-Feeding Finnish Language to Foreigners is Counter Productive! Force-Feeding Finnish Language will Drive Most Educated & Intelligent Foreigners Out of Finland! Why is English now the Global Language? English is the foremost, and by some accounts The Only, World Language.  English is widely used around the World in […]

By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island The government’s decision to increase the withholding tax (WHT) rate to 10%, effective 1 April 2025, deserves commendation. Too often, political leaders have avoided necessary but unpopular decisions, opting to appease the electorate. This has led to various issues, from economic stagnation to the erosion of minority and religious […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and President ambassador’s forum in UK/SL Rice is staple food in Sri Lanka Rice is the staple food in Sri Lanka culturally linked to the history as an agricultural nation in addition being a beautiful compact nation. She has been self-sufficient from rice and […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan The Japanese economy was the biggest economic miracle in the 20th century after the United States,but a grim turning point occurred when the Plaza Accord was signed. Japan’s GDP was less than $0.5 trillion in 1960, yet just 3 decades later, the economy grew to a stunning amount of over $3.1 trillion by 1990 […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් වර්තමාන රජයේ 10 වැනි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සැසිවාරයෙන් මංගල පසුව ලබාදුන් තේ පැන් සංග්‍රහය ඇතුළු වෙනත් සංග්‍රහ කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් වැය කර ඇති මුදල රුපියල් 339,628.55 දැන ගැනීමේ බව තොරතුරු අයිතිවාසිකම යටතේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහලේකම කාර්යාලය මගින් ලබාගත් තොරතුරු මගින් අනාවරණය වේ. එමෙන්ම 10 වැනි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මංගල සැසිවාරයේ උත්සව කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් තවත් රුපියල් 72,350,00 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The MSME Chamber of Sri Lanka has called for the immediate removal of the circular issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), which states that any suspension of ‘Parate’ law execution will not take place beyond 31 March 2025. Speaking at a press briefing, Media Secretary of the MSME Chamber of […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Amid a rice shortage in the market, the private sector has imported 75,000 metric tons of rice following the government’s decision to address the scarcity. According to Sri Lanka Customs, the imports include 32,000 metric tons of raw rice and 43,000 metric tons of Nadu rice. However, consumers report a continued shortage […]