Kit West

It was bitter cold, but I don’t remember freezing or being cold. Hemingway wrote that the air was so cold when you took a breath it was like drinking water.…

Washington 6 Nov (50). Russian officials and proxy authorities in Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine are undertaking a monumental effort to “filter” the population as a means of suppressing Ukrainian resistance…

The Union of Shopping Centres (STTs) estimates that half of the country’s shopping centres are facing high debt burdens. Many have taken out loans with floating rates, which creates a…

The Israeli strikes, both security and military-related, must be critically examined, particularly in light of their success in various regions and against multiple targets. These strikes eventually led to the…

An “urgent review” of dynamic pricing has been launched to ensure consumers are being treated fairly, the competition regulator has announced amid the backlash over ticket prices for the Oasis…

Washington/Paris/Berlin (12/8 – 28.57). Today is the twenty-anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk. A painful experience. A true shocker. All hands are lost, the shortcomings of the Russian system…

Sanjiva Weerawarana is a Sri Lankan success story. He founded enterprise software firm WSO2 in 2005, got it close to $100 million in ARR as its CEO, then sold it…

Orbán’s Moscow visit comes only days after he made a similar unannounced trip to Kyiv for a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán traveled to Moscow for…

Introduction In our previous article on the value of the Sri Lankan rupee in this newspaper (see https://www.ft.lk/columns/Sri-Lankan-rupee-is-more-overvalued-now-than-before-the-crisis/4-758346) we noted that many commentators saw the overvaluation of the Sri Lankan rupee…

UK scales up support for sustainable, climate-resilient farming practices, and improved access to clean water in climate-vulnerable countries The UK is scaling up a partnership with the World Bank to…