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කාන්තාව සහ මාධ්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-26)On the 26th of August 2023, Ethics Eye published a set of guidelines to be followed when portraying women in media. -
අපරාධ සහ සමාජ ප්රශ්න පිළිබදව වාර්තා කිරීමේ දී පිළිපැදිය යුතු මාධ්ය ආචාරධර්ම
(2023-08)On the 24th of August 2023, Ethics Eye published a set of ethical guidelines on how to report on crime and social issues. -
වැරදි තොරතුරු වලින් මුලා නොවන්නට ...
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-28)On the 28th of August 2023, Ethics Eye published a set of guidelines to be followed when sharing information, to prevent the spread of misinformation. -
මෙම පුවතට වාර්ගිකත්වය අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-23)On the 21st of August 2023, Dinamina published an article highlighting the ethnicity of the suspects of an incident involving illegal butchery of cattle. -
සැකකරුවන්ගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළි කළ යුතුද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-22)On the 21st of August 2023 articles published in Dinamina, Mawbima and Aruna reported on a fire that arose in a forest in Athugala due to the negligence of a couple. Dinamina had unethically revealed the identity of the ... -
Wimalaweera Dissanayake: Health sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/7/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Even in the midst of all the shortcomings, it’s Sri Lanka that has the best health service in South Asia. Wimalaweera Dissanayake, The Life Traveler, 19 July 2023 -
Harini Amarasuriya: Unpaid care work
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/17/2023)TRUE: …there are a few factors that are not considered when measuring the contribution to the labour force…[a] large chunk of unremunerated work done by women is the main type of work that is not included in these statistics. ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Provident funds
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/10/2023)TRUE: In addition to the provident fund of the general public, CBSL also maintains a separate provident fund for its officers […] CBSL invested its funds in places where it could get the highest returns and credited an ... -
Rauff Hakeem: Governance and Economic Crimes
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/3/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Come September, we will be the first Asian country to be subjected to IMF review of governance diagnostic. [...] In the meantime, even in the Geneva Resolution against Sri Lanka, they spoke about the need to ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Domestic Debt Restructuring
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/27/2023)TRUE: The IMF has not imposed a condition saying to restructure domestic debt. ….. That being the case, who has intimidated us to the point of doing this? What has happened is that foreign bondholders – sovereign bondholders ... -
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Vehicle imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/20/2023)TRUE: ...within that period [2015-2020], we have brought 2,498,714 vehicles...worth Rs. 1,331.51 billion...We have taxed [them to the value of] 991.12 billion. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, YouTube Page of Parliament of Sri ... -
Harin Fernando: Chinese tourists
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/13/2023)PARTLY TRUE: If each Chinese tourist spent $5,000 that could raise a figure comparable to the recent International Monetary Fund bailout…If you really look at it, tourism can get Sri Lanka out of this mess. Harin Fernando, ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Inflation
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/7/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Inflation, which had skyrocketed to 70 percent, has now decreased to 25.2 percent, lightening the burden of daily life for all of us. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka, 1 June 2023 -
Kabir Hashim: Poverty line
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/29/2023)TRUE: “…by 2019…the poverty line[sic] of this country was 11%…it has grown to 25% by 2023. I believe it is more than that. But the World Bank has calculated that it is only 25%, which means that out of 22 million in this ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Increase in electricity bill
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/22/2023)PARTLY TRUE: From the very short period between last year's August and this year's March…the [electricity] bill increase [was]…1,138% for the poor man [a consumer who uses 30 units] and 160% for the rich man [a person using ... -
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Fiscal stability
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/15/2023)PARTLY TRUE: …we are coming step by step towards fiscal stability. Even the IMF calculated that for this first quarter, our primary account balance will be negative by Rs. 56 billion. But we have brought this quarter…to a ... -
Bandula Gunawardane: Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/8/2023)TRUE: …. the Fiscal Management Responsibility Act No. 3 of 2003…had three main goals…to maintain the budget gap below 5%..... reducing public debt as a percentage of GDP to 65% by 2013, that is, in 10 years…. reducing the ... -
Harsha de Silva: EPF and ETF
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/25/2023)TRUE: The majority of Sri Lanka’s domestic debt is in treasury bonds. We have [almost 9,000 billion] worth of treasury bonds….44.5% of that is in banks….43% was borrowed from EPF & ETF. Harsha de Silva, Daily FT, 20 April 2023 -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Debt restructuring
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/18/2023)TRUE: Programme financing gaps: debt service reduction during 2023-27 should be sufficient to close external financing gaps. Under staff baseline scenario, US$17 billion in debt service reduction is required, including the ... -
Manusha Nayanakkara: Rise in remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/11/2023)TRUE: Sri Lankan migrant workers’ foreign remittances increased to US$ 568.3 million in March 2023 from US$ 318.4 million in March 2022. This is a 78.5% (US$ 249.9 million) increase compared to the inflows recorded in March ...