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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Officials of the Colombo Port City Economic Commission have told Parliament’s Committee on Public Finance that nine plots of land near Colombo’s main commercial zone, valued at
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Buddhist monks leading the ‘Freedom Pilgrimage’ have begun an open-ended protest outside Sri Lanka’s President’s Secretariat in Colombo, demanding the release of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, the imprisoned general secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena
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In Ganzhou, China, local communities are integrating food delivery workers into neighbourhood governance while providing rest stations, social services and institutional support. The initiative seeks to counter the isolation of algorithm-driven gig work by connecting workers to collective life, though community-level support cannot replace
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Officials of the Colombo Port City Economic Commission have told Parliament’s Committee on Public Finance that nine plots of land near Colombo’s main commercial zone, valued at
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Buddhist monks leading the ‘Freedom Pilgrimage’ have begun an open-ended protest outside Sri Lanka’s President’s Secretariat in Colombo, demanding the release of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, the
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