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Following further amendments to the law, long-awaited CEB reforms are underway. Implementation hiccups resulted in threats of a strike - unions are currently on a go-slow. What went wrong and what does it mean for power prices?

Shipping lines are moving their cargo elsewhere. Earlier this year, Colombo lost the Himalaya service. That loop accounted for about six percent of its volume, and is operated by the world’s number one line, MSC. Colombo’s loss was India’s gain. Himalaya now docks at Kerala’s new deep-water port.

It’s that time of year again. As they have for over a decade, ministers, diplomats, and activists from Colombo make their annual pilgrimage to the UN in Geneva. Sri Lanka has been on the HRC’s agenda since 2012. But, sixteen years after the end of the war, has the pilgrimage become a farce?