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    • President to address the UN 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 10/27/2018)
      The entry contains writeups pertaining to the manner in which the Tamil press covered the meeting that was to be held on September 24 between President Maithripala Sirisena and UN Secretary General. The entry also includes ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Yugadhanawi Kerawalapitiya Power Plant 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/28/2021)
      TRUE:…Basil Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, presented a cabinet paper and handed over these constructions [to convert the Yugadhanawi Power Plant into an LNG plant] to a US company [New Fortress Energy] ...

    • Sajith Premadasa: Income inequality 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/3/2019)
      FALSE: While the richest 20 per cent enjoy 54 per cent of the national income, the poorest 20 per cent of the country enjoys only 4 percent of it. - Sajith Premadasa, Lankadeepa, 9 July 2019

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Release of military occupied land 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2019)
      FALSE: "We are the people who released 90% of the land" - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Inaugural Press Conference, 16 October 2019

    • Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)
      FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.” - C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Provincial GDP = අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක - පළාත් දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතය = அனுரா குமார திசாநாயக்க - மாகாண மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/4/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: According to the Annual Report published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the Western Province contributes to 52% of the GDP of the country…The rest of the provinces in the country collectively ...

    • Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Casino taxes 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/5/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: […] Effective April 1, 2023, we hope to impose a fee of USD 50 on every Sri Lankan who enters such a place of business of gaming. This law was in place since 2015. From 2015, the stated law was to charge USD ...

    • Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Agriculture 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2020)
      FALSE: 40% of the population is directly employed in agriculture. - Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Mawbima, 17 August 2020

    • Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)
      FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021

    • Rishad Bathiudeen: Export Services 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/9/2019)
      TRUE: … ICT/BPM, electronics, printing and packaging services – alone contributes to around $1.3 billion in export revenues every year. - Rishad Bathiudeen, Daily FT, 28 August 2019

    • Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
      TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...

    • Wimal Weerawansa: MCC agreement 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/13/2019)
      FALSE: …last week, the [US] Millennium Challenge Agreement was signed in Parliament. Once signed, a special economic corridor will be built from Trincomalee to Colombo Port. - Wimal Weerawansa, Ada, 7 November 2019

    • Protest in Nallur 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 11/14/2018)
      The entry contains writeups pertaining to the manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press covered the protest by families of missing persons in Nallur, Jaffna. The entry also includes images of newspaper articles on the issue.

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Bond Commission report 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/14/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: In early February 2018, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP and party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran sabotaged an adjournment debate on the treasury bond scam report. The newspaper went on to say ...

    • Budget Check 2021 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/17/2020)
      For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Singapore FTA 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/19/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: As a result of the gazette notification 2069/2, nearly 4000 products can be imported with zero tariffs as per the Sri Lanka–Singapore Free Trade Agreement. - Bandula Gunawardana, 17 October 2018, Divaina

    • Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)
      FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)
      TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021

    • Mangala Samaraweera: Media freedom 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/2/2018)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s rank in the World Press Freedom Index has moved from 165 to 131. - Mangala Samaraweera, 28 September 2018, Divaina