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කාන්තාවගේ රූමත් බව: අ(න)වශ්‍ය ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-23)In the month of May 2022, an article published in Sunday Mawbima reported on a scam involving a woman who stole money from others, where the physical appearance of the suspect was highlighted in the headline as "roomath", ... -
යුද්ධයේ අවසන් අදියරේදී මියගියවුන් වෙනුවෙන් ගෝඨාගෝගම පැවැත්වුණු සැමරුම: රූපවාහිනී පුවත් වාර්තා කර තිබුණේ කෙසේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-20)In the month of May 2022, tv news telecasts covered the story of the event held at GotaGoGama to commemorate the dead during the last phase of the war. While Sirasa, Swarnavahini, Siyatha, Rupavahini, Hiru and Derana ... -
මෙරට 26 වැනි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස පත්වූ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පිළිබඳ රූපවාහිනි මාධ්‍ය තුළ දැක්වූ අදහස්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-13)In the month of May 2022 covered the news of the appointment of the 26th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe. Rupavahini only covered opinions of people who were in favour of the appointment, thus amounting ... -
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මාධ්‍ය නිදහස අතින් කෙතරම් පහළට වැටී තිබේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-05)In the month of May 2022, an article published in Mawbima reported that Sri Lanka's ranking in the media freedom index has dropped by 29 places, whereas according to Reporters Without Borders, the ranking has only dropped ... -
ගෘහස්ත හිංසනය පිළිබඳ ලිපියක් සමඟ උපකාරක අංක පළ කිරීම ප්‍රශංසනීයයි!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-02)In the month of May 2022, an article published in Sunday Lankadeepa on domestic abuse carried helplines for persons experiencing such a situation to get help, which is in compliance with media ethical guidelines. -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05)During the month of May 2022, several newspapers and tv news telecasts reported on suicide without adhering to media ethical guidelines on reporting on suicide. When reporting on a father who had died by suicide due to ... -
අටළුගම දැරියක් ඝාතනය වීම සහ මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05)During the month of May 2022, several newspapers and tv news telecasts reported on the murder of a minor in the Atulugama area. It was seen that a number of media ethics were violated in reporting this. Aruna and Divaina ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වයන් අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05)During the month of May 2022, articles published in Aruna, Lankadeepa and Dinamina negatively highlighted the ethnicity of individuals who were suspects of different offences, when the ethnicity was irrelevant to the story, ... -
දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-11)During the month of October 2021, several newspapers and tv news reported on a suicide, violating the following ethical guidelines on suicide; Ceylon Today, Mawbima, and Divaina had given prominence to the suicide news, ... -
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: CEB profits and electricity access
(www.factcheck.lk , 5/19/2022)PARTLY TRUE: In 2014… we did so much work and reduced the electricity bill by 25 percent. – Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, DailyNews, 14 March 2022. -
The Exporting Problem of SMEs: Finance is one solution
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-09)Since the turn of the century, not only have Sri Lankan exports declined as a share of its GDP, but also in terms of its global share. Sri Lanka had a larger global share of exports at Independence, than at present. There ... -
The Budget Is Not Mainly About Money, It’s About Governance
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-10)Budgeting is a governance process that drives national plans, priorities and policy. While much of that is reflected in the content of the budget, important governance aspects are also reflected in the budgeting process. ... -
අප්‍රේල් 4, 2022 දින රූපවාහිනී සිරස්තල: නව අමාත්‍යවරු පත්කිරීමක්ද? හිටපු අයම පත්කිරීමක්ද? ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-04)In the month of April 2022, tv primetime news telecasts framed the appointment of a new appointment in different ways. Sirasa, Hiru, Swarnavahini and ITN specified in the headlines that old ministers have been reappointed ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-04)During the month of April 2022, several newspapers published several articles on suicide, which contained a number of media ethics violations. Mawbima and Divaina reported on a death by suicide due to economic hardship ... -
ආර්ථික අර්බුදය පිළිබඳ මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-04)During the months of March 2022 of April 2022, several newspapers and tv news covered the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka from various angles. On power cuts: On March 30, 2022, Derana, Sirasa, Swarnavahini, Hiru and ... -
දේශපාලන අර්බුදය, මහජන අරගලය සහ විරෝධතා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-04)Mirihana protest: During the month of April 2022, the protest which occurred in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence was covered in newspapers as follows; on April 1, 2022, Lankadeepa, Divaina, Mawbima, Aruna, ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/5/2022)TRUE: Foreign remittances increased during the first 5 months of 2021. It increased by USD 450Mn. However, it started to drop from the sixth month onwards… This January, it [remittances] reduced by 62%.– Anura Kumara ... -
Namal Rajapaksa: Chief Government Whip
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/4/2022)BLATANTLY FALSE: If we are to convene parliament, the chief government whip and other key positions must be sworn in as cabinet ministers, if they are to remain in those positions. It was due to this that Hon. Johnston ... -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: All Party Convention statement
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/28/2022)FALSE: During 2015-2019, Sri Lanka’s economic growth had collapsed gradually from 7% to 2%. Although foreign debt increased by USD 15 billion, foreign reserves had reduced by USD 1 billion. – Ajith Nivard Cabraal, News19.lk, ... -
Cigarette Tax Indexation, Getting It Right and Getting It Wrong
(2019-08)The article tackles the cigarette tax indexation policy introduced with Sri Lanka’s 2019 Budget: where annual increases to the cigarette excise tax (a tax exclusive to cigarettes) will be based on inflation and income ...