The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is funding a Rs1.8 billion (US$12 million) program to support youth employability, vocational skills development, and entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka. The YouLead! initiative is meant to create a more market-oriented, skilled, and...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday joined the government to launch a project to equip the country’s youth with skills required to survive and thrive in the fast evolving workplace. YouthLead is a US$ 12 million initiative that...

Conversations over the past week, in person and over social media, were anchored to a bizarre news report published in a leading daily newspaper on the purported private life of a woman who had visited a doctor. This is putting...

A livestreamed debate assessing 40 years of Sri Lanka's open economy kicked off a three day forum on economic freedom organized by Advocata, a Colombo - based think tank. Advocata is partnering with Canada's Fraser Institute, the publishers of the Economic Freedom...