Balancing regional power relations

Our relations with China go back to more than a thousand five hundred years. We do have a deep-rooted relationship based on trust and mutual interests. In recent times we were one of the first countries to recognise the Peoples Republic of China. We supported China's re-entry to the UN,

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Future Economics:

The role of the State in development

When it comes to the role of the State in development, Sri Lanka has witnessed an extremely sterile debate that has formulated the question as a choice between the State and the market. There are champions on both sides, increasingly encrusted in their ideological positions.

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Nature’s ‘medicine cabinet’ fights bee disease

Floral nectar contains a bouquet of natural chemicals that may help fight parasite infection in bumble bees, a study said . The findings throw up clues for helping honey bee colonies battling mysterious but catastrophic decline.

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