Verité in the News

    International trade expert says signing FTAs won’t help revive SL’s export sector
    by |20 February 2018|Verité in the News
    Signing FTA with Singapore is not a game changer, it is incorrect to say FTAs create massive benefits like generating a lot of exports  FTAs can complement provided there is capacity to produce products that are competitive to meet demand, standards...
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    Quota Conundrums
    by |20 February 2018|Verité in the News
    One of the key expectations of the Local Government (LG) elections was the premise that 25% of women would be elected to represent the 341 councils and municipalities around the country. However, legal and logistical issues that have cropped up...
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    International trade expert says signing FTAs won’t help revive SL’s export sector
    by |19 February 2018|Verité in the News
    Signing FTA with Singapore is not a game changer, it is incorrect to say FTAs create massive benefits like generating a lot of exports  FTAs can complement provided there is capacity to produce products that are competitive to meet demand, standards...
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    FTA with Singapore, positive signal to world
    by |19 February 2018|Verité in the News
    Sri Lanka has managed to send a positive signal to the world, demonstrating the country’s openness to investments and its willingness to create much-needed business links with the rest of the world by signing a comprehensive, high quality FTA with...
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    In Sri Lanka, local elections have rattled the government
    by |15 February 2018|Verité in the News
    TO CRITICS of Mahinda Rajapaksa, local-council elections that were held in Sri Lanka on February 10th felt like a horror film, as the controversial ex-president rose from his silk-lined political coffin to declare victory. And what a victory it was...
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    STF brutality against Muslims in Digana: March 5
    by |13 February 2018|Verité in the News
    This story is based on visits to both sites and testimonies of at least 10 survivors and about 5 eyewitnesses present As Sinhalese – Buddhist mobs were escalating violence against Muslims around Digana on March 5, the Hijrapura mosque in...
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    Sri Lanka’s strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa is back
    by |12 February 2018|Verité in the News
    Sri Lankas starker Mann Mahinda Rajapakse ist wieder da   Altpräsident Rajapakse hat seinen Machtanspruch nie aufgegeben. Nun hat der ehemalige Autokrat ein oppositionelles Bündnis um sich geschart und damit die Lokalwahlen in Sri Lanka haushoch gewonnen. Volker Pabst, Delhi...
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    Ceylon Chamber of Commerce to hold seminar on February 16
    by |08 February 2018|Verité in the News
    In light of the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed last month, which is the first FTA Sri Lanka has signed in over a decade, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) will hold a seminar titled “Expand your Business Opportunities...
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    Ceylon Chamber organizes seminar on SL-S’pore FTA
    by |08 February 2018|Verité in the News
    In light of the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed last month, which is the first FTA Sri Lanka has signed in over a decade, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will hold a seminar titled ‘Expand your business opportunities through...
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    Sri Lanka – Singapore FTA Seminar organized by CCC on Feb. 16
    by |06 February 2018|Verité in the News
    In light of the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed last month, which is the first FTA Sri Lanka has signed in over a decade, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will hold a seminar titled, ‘Expand your Business Opportunities Through...
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