Robert Knox, the British sailor, published‘An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon’ in London in 1681. Perhaps Knox’s view was the best of an outsider in the early...
Sri Lanka
Sanjiva Weerawarana is a Sri Lankan success story. He founded enterprise software firm WSO2 in 2005, got it close to $100 million in ARR as its CEO, then sold...
London (04/11 – 50) US government last week intervened in a lawsuit triggered by Hamilton Reserve Bank in St Kitts & Nevis. Somehow, a small bank...
London (05/11 – 44.44) Benjamin Wey, a Chinese-American financier, founder of Fintech Holdings and a history of legal trouble, is suing Sri Lanka for $250...
Paris (15/11 – 75) Sri Lanka has reached an agreement with the China Exim bank on the principles and terms of a $4.2 billion debt settlement, the...
Rome (16/11 – 57) Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis and the country’s then President Rajapaksa...
Berlin (17/11 – 75) Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe is the cynosure of public attention. He is Sri Lanka’s man of the season and is well positioned to...
Brussels (12/11 – 57) The stories of exile, exclusion and expulsion of indentured labourers from Tamil Nadu in Sri Lanka’s plantations suggests lessons to be...
Brussels (08/11 – 50) On March 20, the IMF approved a $3 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to support Sri Lanka amid its economic crisis. The approval is...
Berlin (21/09 – 40) His Excellency Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Sri Lanka, spoke at the General Debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly...
