Economic
On a lush plantation in Sri Lanka, Arulappan Ideijody deftly plucks the tips of each tea bush, throwing them over her shoulder into an open basket on her back. After a month of picking more than 18 kg (40 lb) of such tea leaves each day, she and h..
Germany hopes to find a way within days to replace Russian oil with supplies from other sources, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Tuesday, adding that Germany could then cope with an EU embargo on Russian oil imports. Under pressure to reduc..
The State of Qatar participated today in the Economic and Social Council's Follow-up of the 2022 Financing for Development Forum, which is being held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The delegation of the State of Qatar participat..
Qatar Charity (QC), as part of the ‘Ramadan of Hope’ drive, seeks to garner support for economic empowerment projects during Ramadan and to receive Zakat to reduce poverty and empower nearly 2,800,000 underprivileged families economically..
Sri Lanka, an island nation of 22 million, is facing an economic and political crisis, with protesters taking to the streets in defiance of curfews and government ministers stepping down en masse. Driving the discontent is the worst economic downt..
Doctors across Sri Lanka say hospitals are running out of medicines and essential supplies as the country's economic crisis worsens. They fear a health catastrophe if international help doesn't arrive soon. "Day by day things are runn..
Sri Lanka ordered the Colombo Stock Exchange to be halted next week to give investors time to absorb the countrys unprecedent economic conditions. Bloomberg News said that the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka said, in...
India is focused on stabilising its economic ties with Russia and is working to devise a payment mechanism to settle trade amid Western sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. India has called f..
Police in Sri Lanka's capital lifted a curfew on Friday after protests in which dozens of people were arrested and several policemen were hurt near the home of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over his handling of an economic crisis. Hundreds of p..