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"ගංජාකාරයා" - මාධ්යට උචිත ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-01-03)On January 2, 2025, Lankadeepa newspaper published a report on the arrest of several individuals during a raid where a man was caught with marijuana. In the report the suspect is identified as "ganjakaraya" (ගංජාකාරයා) ... -
අනුරාධපුර ප්රදේශයේ දියණිය සමග මව දිවි තොරකර ගත් පුවත: සිංහල පුවත්පත් වාර්තාකරණ ඔස්සේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-01-03)On January 2, 2025, Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, and Mawbima newspapers reported on an incident in which a mother died by suicide after murdering her two-year-old child. All four newspapers failed to publish helplines, mentioned ... -
"ගුරා" ද? "ගුරුවරයා" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-15)On May 10 and May 11, 2023, state-owned TV channel ITN and privately-owned Hiru TV channel reported on the incident where a tuition master sexually harassed 16 students in Kalutara. Both TV channels used the derogatory ... -
"චීනා" ද? "චීන ජාතිකයා" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-24)On May 23, 2023, Ada, Dinamina, Mawbima, and Aruna newspapers reported on an incident where a Chinese national entered Sri Lanka using a forged passport. News reportage on the incident by Ada, Dinamina, and Mawbima used ... -
"මෙහෙකාරිය" ද? ගෘහ සේවිකාව ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-23)On May 22, 2023, Lankadeepa, Aruna, and Divaina newspapers reported on the death of a domestic worker held in police custody. All three newspapers used the outdated and derogatory term "Mehekariya" (මෙහෙකාරිය) in the report. ... -
Forensic Audit Investigation on Investments of Employees Provident Fund in Shares / Equities from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2017 : Final Report RFP 3
(Colombo: KPMG, 2019-11-07)The Final Report: The Monetary Board of Central Bank of Sri Lanka has been prepared by KPMG on behalf of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. It pertains to an investigation of investments of Employee ... -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-11-05)FALSE: We heard on the election stages the claim that […] [they] would reduce the fuel price, remove/reduce taxes. […] Actually, around two weeks ago octane 92 petrol was brought into the country at Rs.195. Similarly, ... -
Sajith Premadasa: Child poverty
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-08-14)TRUE: According to international statistics 25 percent of children in Sri Lanka are suffering from child poverty. […] Statistics have shown that 42 percent of our country's children are suffering from multidimensional ... -
Bandula Gunawardana: Expressways
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-16)PARTLY TRUE: The foreign loans obtained to construct the expressways and have not been repaid yet amount to Rs. 800 billion. The annual profit [from expressways] is Rs. 5 billion. Even if we continue to earn a profit of ... -
'සුද්දා' ලේබල්කරණයෙන් වළකිමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-17)On May 11, 2023, Aruna newspaper published an editorial related to the difficulties faced by foreign tourists travelling in Sri Lanka. The title and the content of the editorial used the derogatory term "Sudda" (සුද්දා) ... -
"මෙහෙකාරිය" ද? "ගෘහ සේවිකාව" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-17)On May 15, 2023, Aruna, Dinamina, and Divaina newspapers reported on the death of a domestic worker held in police custody. Aruna used the more appropriate "Gruha sevikawa" (ගෘහ සේවිකාව) to refer to the domestic worker, ... -
"ගුරා" ද? ගුරුවරයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-15)From May 10 to May 12, 2023, Dinamina, Divaina, Mawbima, and Ada newspapers reported on an incident where a tuitionmaster has sexually assaulted 16 students in Kalutara. Dinamina, Divaina, and Mawbima used the derogatory ... -
"අරගලය" අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-23)On May 23, 2023, Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Aruna, and Mawbima reported on an incident where a special task force raided a sex work racket and arrested seven individuals. When reporting, three newspapers Dinamina, Lankadeepa, ... -
‘Locked-In’ to China: The Colombo Port City Project
(Stanford: Leadership Academy for Development, 2017-10)This case looks at the predicament of a small nation burdened by Chinese debt, accumulated by infrastructure projects under the aegis of China’s One Belt One Road initiative. By 2016, the government of Sri Lanka owed China ... -
Briefing Note: The Colombo Port City Economic Commission Act
(Colombo: Sudath Perera Associates, 2021-09)The Port City Act sets out the primary legal framework governing activities and operations in the SEZ. This note provides an overview of its salient features (including the structure, scope and powers of the central ... -
Sri Lanka’s Port City Economic Commission Act: A Social-Legal Insight
(Singapore: Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, 2021-07-16)The Port City in Colombo is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project launched in 2014 as a joint venture between the project company, CHEC Port City Colombo Pvt Ltd, and the Sri Lankan government. The law governing the Port ... -
Port City SEZ: A Catalyst for Modern Services in Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI), 2020)This LKI report explores Sri Lanka’s position as a modern services hub, global and local scenarios that might shape the evolution of Port City and insights from advanced, services-based and established SEZs for developing ... -
අරගලයේ නායකයන් සහ කාටුන
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-19)On April 23, April 30, and May 14 2023 the Silumina newspaper published several cartoons under the Simple Man segment where there was problematic commentary regarding the leaders of the aragalaya (අරගලය) protest movement. ... -
"සුද්දා", "සුද්දී": ලේබල්කරණයෙන් වළකිමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-02)On April 17, 2023, two newspaper reports published in Aruna and Mawbima used derogatory terms "Sudda" and "Suddi" (සුද්දා, සුද්දී) in the heading to refer to foreigners based on their skin colour. Usage of such terms in ... -
"රූමත්" බව පුවතට අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05-02)On April 16, 2023 two newspapers Sathi Aga Aruna and Sunday Mawbima reported on an incident where an elementary school teacher was killed. In these reportages both newspapers highlighted the appearance of the teacher using ...