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Sri Lankans have lived through countless crises. Civil wars, insurgencies, constitutional coups droughts...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows that, without the control and censorship imposed by the authorities, the Chinese media would have informed the public much...
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In a joint statement, six media organisations in Sri Lanka call on media...
Image: Whether or not you’ve read The Plague, the book demands reading, or rereading, at this tense national and international moment, as a new disease, COVID-19,...
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“Epidemic diseases are not random events that affect societies capriciously and without warning. On the contrary, every society produces its...
By Nicholas LePan
The History of Pandemics
Pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
As humans have spread across the world,...
Image: German police officers prevent a woman from entering Germany at the German-France border in Kehl, Monday March 16, 2020. Germany partially closes its...
By Karl Bode.
The use of location data to help track and manage the pandemic should come with meaningful safeguards and expiration dates, privacy experts say.
In...
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 16 March 2020
16 March 2020
Good afternoon everyone.
In the past week, we have seen...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
