Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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Kathya de Silva Senarath
Sri Lanka exchanged the Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) with Japan in June 2019 with regard to the Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) system to open new opportunities to Sri Lankan youth and to eliminate malicious intermediary businesses operating here.
The system is to promote the smooth and appropriate accepting and sending of qualified personnel from Sri Lanka to Japan....
The Government has an ambitious target of generating 70 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2030. The remaining 30 percent will be from other sources. However, after 2030, the plan is to work towards a 100 percent. Prof. Sirimal Abeyratne, Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Colombo, shed some light on the topic from an economic perspective...
Opinion:
As chaos unravels in Afghanistan, fingers are pointed at the US for the inability to understand ground realities.
It was a failure of American intelligence as the Taliban takeover was a surprise to the Americans who were to complete their withdrawal in two weeks. The US did not predict that the Taliban would take advantage of the situation so soon.
Afghanistan had America...