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Friday, July 11, 2025

Sri Lanka Considers High Import Taxes Amid US Tariff Pressure

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Recently, the US government imposed a 30% tariff on Sri Lankan exports , effective August 1, 2025. While this is lower than the initially th...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

What is UNHRC resolution 46/1 on Sri Lanka?

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UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on 23 March 2021. The resolution was brought by Britain on behalf of a group of countri...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

Does illegal re-exportation of pepper from Sri Lanka continue?

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While Sri Lankan pepper cultivators lament about the low price for their crops, Indian pepper growers complain that Vietnam pepper is enteri...
Monday, January 04, 2021

Sri Lanka President pardons a criminal Buddhist monk; more criminals expected to be pardoned

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President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa pardoned a criminal Buddhist monk who had been jailed for life for possessing two T-56 firearms a...
Monday, December 28, 2020

A section of Buddhist leaders of Sri Lanka urge the government to give permission to bury COVID-19 dead bodies

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Inter-Religion Relations Subcommittee of Sri Lanka Amarapura and Ramanna Buddhist Sangha sects wrote to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa urging ...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Some of the murdered COVID-19 positive prisoners were ones released by court

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A woman lamented before Wattala Magistrate Court of Sri Lanka yesterday saying the prison authorities of Mahara prison had killed her husban...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Baby farm owner arrested in Sri Lanka

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A Sri Lankan man who engaged in trafficking of babies was arrested at Matale on December 21, police media spokesman Deputy Inspector General...