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Port City is now picking up, after being a pile of sand for a decade. At least 150 companies have set up shop, amidst construction on condos and a marina. But a closer look inside the special economic zone suggests that all may not be going to plan.
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Indian investors are particularly important to Port City’s success, and Indian journalists have been wooed to write positively about it.
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But the efforts don’t seem to have paid off. No Indian company, besides Hexaware’s Sri Lankan subsidiary, appears to have registered.
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The NPP government’s durability depends on some balancing of power between its different parts. In this Opinion Andres Mejia Acosta and Mick Moore contemplate their future by comparing the NPP with similar coalitions from Latin America.
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It isn't really a problem that a great deal of government policy is made at the JVP HQ at Pelawatte, or that Tilvin Silva has almost as much influence as the president. It’s more substantially democratic than the alternatives we have seen in recent decades.
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Last month The Examiner asked whether the JVP has swallowed the NPP. In this op-ed, Andres Mejia Acosta and Mick Moore try to provide a reason for why this may be so: the JVP is protecting itself, and the NPP more broadly, from real and current threats.
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“The moment the power dropped last Saturday, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake called the energy minister.
Officials are being questioned on why risky maintenance at Nororchcholai was undertaken on a Saturday, a risky time for grid stability.” - Unredacted Political Column
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“The Americans have asked Wasantha Samarasinghe to share a concrete list of US goods they would order, in exchange for lower Trump tariffs.” - Unredacted Political Column
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“When the US slapped a 44% tariff on Sri Lankan goods last year, Mahinda Samarasinghe led negotiations to bring it down to 10%. The quid pro quo was a promise to buy more American goods, including crude oil, LPG, and farm produce. America now wants Sri Lanka to deliver on its side of the deal.” - Unredacted Political Column
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