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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economy could contract by -3.5 or -4.0% in 2023 after shrinking -11% last year, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday. “From 2024, we will take this economy to positive growth. We are creating a strong country that does not bow down to anyone and is debt-free,” he said. Speaking at a religious […]

Mr Ridha Aditya Nugraha, an expert in international air and space law, said that the earliest possible time for the FIR realignment to be legally recognised through the Aeronautical Information Publication would be in the later half of 2024. According to aviation website Skybrary, the Aeronautical Information Publication is a manual that contains details of […]

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COLOMBO, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s economy could contract by -3.5 or -4.0% in 2023 after shrinking -11% last year, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday. “From 2024, we will take this economy to positive growth. We are creating a strong country that does not bow down to anyone and is debt-free,” he said. […]

A child takes a visual impairment test on a smartphone. /Nature Medicine A child takes a visual impairment test on a smartphone. /Nature Medicine Untrained people can use smartphones to detect visual impairment among kids with AI technology, according to a study by scientists from Sun Yat-sen University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Visual impairment […]

One of the most critical components of food and agriculture infrastructure is the availability of cold storage at every stop along the supply chain. What use is a trawler full of haddock if it rots before it gets from ship to shore, or processing facility to market? Food is wasted, income is lost, the potential […]

Share The Article Last Updated 2 hours ago More than one-third of Americans don’t drink alcohol. With healthier alternatives coming onto the scene, people are choosing to ditch the boozy drinks and live an alcohol-free lifestyle, and this also includes vacations. #AlchoholFreeLiving has over 2.7 million views on TikTok, while #alcoholfreeholidays has almost 130,000. If […]

Australia became a fervent ally of the US after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942. Australia was thence involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars, atrocities  associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and imposed deprivation. Now, as a US lackey Australia absurdly and dangerously beats the drums of war against […]

Bantul, Yogyakarta (ANTARA) – The Agriculture Ministry and related stakeholders have collaborated to organize foot-and-mouth disease vaccinations for Depok 45 Farm Group in Parangtritis Village, Kretek Sub-district, Bantul District, Yogyakarta Province. The stakeholders include the Yogyakarta and Bantul administrations. “This is 2023 National Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) measure of control and handling, which is the firsthand directive from the […]

TEMPO.CO, Guangzhou – Chinese scientists from Sun Yat-sen University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University used artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect visual impairment among kids via smartphones. Visual impairment is one of the most important causes of long-term disability in children worldwide. Still, its early detection is frequently missed since kids are capable of only […]