International Affairs

WASHINGTON - For months, U.S. officials have been warning about a spike in cyberattacks during the coronavirus pandemic, but they’ve stopped short of pointing fingers at any one country.

Sri Lanka is on the right track to contain the COVID-19 epidemic through the increased tracking, testing, isolation, and treatment strategy, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement today.

The International Monetary Fund is currently assessing Sri Lanka’s request for rapid financing facility among 49 other countries while approving requests for emergency pandemic aid from 50 of its 189 members.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසයේ අවදානම හේතුවෙන් දැඩි සීමා පනවා තිබූ රටවල එම සීමා ලිහිල් කිරීමෙන් පසු ආසාදිතයන් වාර්තා වීම යළි ඉහළ ගොස් ඇති බව ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය පවසනවා. එම සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා ඊයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී මේ බව පවසා තිබේ.

විදෙස්ගත සිසුන්ට යළිත් වරක් සිය රටට පැමිණ අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබීමේ අවස්ථාව උදාකිරීමට ඕස්ටේ‍්‍රලියාව තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

කොරෝනා වසංගතය හමුවේ මෙරටට අවශ්‍ය ශ්වසන ආධාරක යන්ත්‍ර ලබාදීමට අමෙරිකාව ඉදිරිපත් වී තිබේ. අමෙරිකානු ජනාධිපති ඩොනල්ඩ් ට්‍රම්ප් ගේ උපදෙස් මත එරට ආරක්ෂක උපදේශක රොබට් ඕ බ්‍රයන් මේ පිළිබඳව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත දැනුම් දී ඇති බව සඳහන්.

The Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena has conveyed his deep appreciation to the Cuban Government for the support extended through the dispatch of a Cuban medical team to the Republic of Haiti to attend to the medical needs of Sri Lankans employed in Haiti.

Facebook and Google have said they will let employees continue working from home for the rest of the year.

අගුලු දැමීම් ලිහිල් කරන රටවල් අතිශය ප්‍රවේශම් සහගත ලෙස සහ පියවරෙන් පියවර එම හුවමාරු වීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය කළ යුතුව ඇතැයි ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය අනතුරු අඟවයි.

The European Commission has de-listed Sri Lanka from its list of High Risk Third Countries with Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Strategic Deficiencies published on May 7, the Central Bank said today. Sri Lanka was listed as a high risk third country by the EU in February 2018, subsequent to Sri Lanka being identified by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as a jurisdiction with strategic AML/CFT deficiencies in its Compliance Document which is more commonly identified as “the Grey List” in October 2017.

Gurudeb Rabindranath Tagore had a lasting affiliation with Sri Lanka and its people. He visited Sri Lanka thrice in his lifetime during 1922, 1928 and 1934 had a profound impact on the socio-cultural relationship between the two countries.

The Kuwaiti Government has offered to fly Sri Lankan migrant workers back, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

චීනයේ නව ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරයා වශයෙන් එම්. සී. ෆර්ඩිනැන්ඩෝ මහතා පත් කිරීමට සියලු විධිවිධාන සකස් කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.

The United States Federal Registry run by the National Archive and Records Administration has published President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s name on its quarterly published expatriate list of individuals renouncing United States citizenship.

Washington (Reuters): The International Monetary Fund has approved requests for emergency pandemic aid from 50 of its 189 members for a total of about $18 billion and is continuing to work quickly through the remaining more than 50 requests, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

South Korea warned Sunday of the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19 infections.

As a special friendly gesture from the Government and the people of India in the ongoing auspicious Vesak week, a 12.5 tonne gift consignment of essential medicines and medical items arrived in Colombo today from India by a special flight.

More foreign assistance pouring into Sri Lanka coffers to help the island nation in the fight against Civid-19 with Asian Development Bank joining in the foreign aid agency line up
the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided a guarantee for a $25 million trade loan to the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) to purchase medical supplies as part of the country’s response to the novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.