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    Remove Obstacles to agricultural exports
    by |05 March 2017|Verité in the News
    Excessive checks, delays and unwanted procedures serious drawback to export growth West Asia is a potentially large market for our agri-products, but Lanka losing competitiveness The sluggish export performance of recent years has been one of the main reasons for...
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    Call to change existing Sri Lanka laws to better apply RTI
    by |27 February 2017|Verité in the News
    Proactive disclosure is a key obligation of the Sri Lankan government under its new Right to Information (RTI) law and existing laws preventing publication of information from public authorities should be changed, a new study said. The study by the...
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    Au Sri Lanka, la cité fantôme de l’omnipotente famille Rajapakse
    by |27 February 2017|Verité in the News
    Président de 2005 à 2015, battu lors des dernières élections, Mahinda Rajapakse tente de revenir sur le devant de la scène. Il prépare aussi l’arrivée de son fils, Namal qui a repris sa province d’Hambantota. Reportage Petite ville perdue dans...
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    JVP Dominates Survey For Most Active MPs During Budget Debate
    by |14 February 2017|Verité in the News
    Three Parliamentarians representing the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna have topped a survey conducted by Manthri.lk for the most active Parliamentarians during the budget debate in Parliament. JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has topped the ranking as the most active MP during...
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    Low Wages And Outdated Laws: The Domestic Worker’s Dilemma
    by |15 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Although many parts of the world had abolished slavery by the twentieth century, modes of unjust servitude exist, to this day, in the form of domestic workers who are paid a measly amount for their work. According to a recent...
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    දින සියයේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ අසාර්ථකයිද?
    by |09 January 2017|Verité in the News
    2015 ජනවාරි 09 වැනි දින ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හයවැනි විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන දිවුරුම් දුන්නේය. ජනපති සිරිසේනගේ ඡන්ද ව්‍යාපාරය දිවෙන ලද්දේ කෙටිකාලීන සහන වැඩසටහන් සහ දිගුකාලීන ව්‍යුහමය වෙනස්කම් පිළිබඳ පොරොන්දු රැගත් දින 100 වැඩපිළිවෙළ පදනම්වය. මෙම පොරොන්දු ජනාධිපතිවරයා පත් වී...
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    71 out of 100: Yahapalanaya’s 100-Day Programme in retrospect
    by |08 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Manthri.lk, a website dedicated to monitor the performance of Parliamentarians, under an initiative of Verite Research, has given a score of 71% to the Maithripala Sirisena administration, based on its latest assessment on the promises fulfilled in terms of the...
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    Survivalist and Irrepressible: The Two Faces of the Sri Lankan Media
    by |06 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Introduction The past decade produced two critical moments of transition in Sri Lanka. On 19 May 2009, a 30-year war came to a brutal end with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). On 9 January 2015,...
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    Man on a mission to topple Govt. in 2017
    by |02 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday vowed to make it his mission to topple the National Unity Government and regain power in 2017, nearly two years after he was ousted in a shocking election upset. During a meeting with Colombo-based foreign...
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