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So you're just going to go ahead with saying the tamils and the LTTE are the same thing? LOL, have fun bro.

BD has more of an advantage in this area than Sri Lanka! BD is 98% Bengali, Sri Lanka is less than 75% Sinhalese. But the issue shouldn't be ethnicity, it should be groups with conflicting opinions. The more divided a nation is the less strongly it can advance.

Maybe when we're done with him! It's also important once you have the right leader to have a system that gives him enough power to do his job. For example if Modi is as effective as Mahinda, I think the partisan politics of India might get in the way of him doing his job effectively. In Sri...

Do you mean in the way that having a large public sector can be a burden on the economy?

It's about time! Every region has developed countries; East Asia, South East Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, South America. We need at least one, it will be good for our image as a continent. It'll show what South Asians are capable of.

Sri Lanka is extremely lucky to have such a leader. Such men don't come into power anywhere in the world often. If we let him, he will be as Lee Kuan Yew was to Singapore. He realises what it takes to build a developed country (infrastructure, education, healthcare, technology, science) and...

Also interesting that industry is expanding at 8.1%, this is a clear indicator of Sri Lanka industrialising. Traditional, low-value agriculture seems to be dropping off, hopefully we use the raw rubber and materials to make value-added goods.

Hopefully it can become a constant thing, not just a rarity!

True! I checked other articles too, this was just the first one. Here's Reuters: Sri Lanka c.bank keeps policy rates steady at multiyear low| Reuters "It also said the country had recorded a balance-of-payments surplus of $749 million by end-October, broadly in line with the year-end target of...

BOP records surplus of US$ 749m, inflation contained at single digit | Daily News Online : Sri Lanka's National News I think it's a great achievement that we have a Balance of Payment surplus considering the sheer amount of resources being spent developing nationwide infrastructure. To achieve...

Can isolationism really work? I mean in today's global society we're all interdependent on each other. Without the West who would China export to? And without China how could the West support massive spending? Integration with the global economy brings prosperity as it plays to everyone's...

I'm not going to pick a side but I like how you handled that, very classy!

The 25,000 sq. ft. facility is a partnership between EWIS and Microsoft and is aimed at manufacturing tablet PCs, laptop computers and desktop computers to meet the growing demand for innovative yet affordable computers in Sri Lanka as well as in the Asia Pacific region. The plant has obtained...

Once completed the housing units will be distributed among the slum dwellers who are living under deplorable conditions. As the government is committed in making Colombo a showcase city free of slums and squatters, the Secretary Defence is assiduously working towards providing these people a...

Not yet, Sri Lanka is aiming more for electronics and vehicle/heavy industry manufacturing than appliances. Such an agreement would be a great win-win. EDIT: Apparently we do produce a lot of appliances as well! Sisil makes fridges if I remember correctly, along with a few other large companies.

Interestingly, in Sri Lanka the Sampur Power Station we commissioned from India is still "under construction". It has been since 2006. In that time, partnered with China, two deep-water ports, an international airport, two expressways, a coal power station, a hydroelectric dam, and a new canal...

Nov 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka's core inflation, which captures underlying long-term trend of the inflation, has continued its declining trend in terms of both year-on-year and annual average basis over the last few months, the Central Bank said. The year-on-year core inflation which was over 7...

I think what we need is more 90s-style economic liberalisation in India. But with the services sector I think many were suggesting this was an alternate path to development, leapfrogging the industry stage. Wow thanks for the insight. I may visit India soon, do you recommend anywhere in...