By Bodh Maathura

• CBSL seems to function on the personal ‘belief’ of the CBSL Governor

• CBSL continues to bury its head in the sand while the country is robbed by business elites in the export and import sector, saying corporate corruption is ‘their business’

• CBSL ignores crucial findings and recommendations of IMF, World Bank, ADB, UNCTAD and OHCHR on illicit financial outflows affecting countries like Sri Lanka

• Trade Unions demand immediate coordinated effort between CBSL, Commercial Banks and Customs to investigate the issue and repatriate illicitly transferred funds, starting from most recent transactions.

By Nipun Nupearachchi

The headline news today is the question raised by civil society activists with regard to the coal tenders and the companies from whom coal is purchased.

‘Principles of Political Science’ published by a publication house in Russia in 1978 says thus,

By Dr. Ishantha Siribaddana 

All of us, young and old, love to hear stories. In the past, there were no facilities to travel like today.

Can an election unite Sri Lanka? This would be what some groups would have the citizens of the country believe. But the question that needs answering is what has led to the divisions in the country?

Something extraordinary happened in Malaysia this week. After a bitterly fought general election with no clear winner, the King had the wisdom and the courage to appoint Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as Malaysia’s 10th Prime Minister.