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    • Patali Champika Ranawaka per capita income 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/11/2018)
      FALSE: Today, it [Sri Lanka] is a middle income country with a per capita income of US $ 13,000. This is the highest per capita income in the region. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, 3 October 2018, Daily News

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Loans from Japan 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2020)
      TRUE: As a country, Japan has given the most in loans at low interest rates. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 16 June 2020

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)
      FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Money Printing 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/21/2021)
      TRUE: Rs. 130 billion rupees has been printed from November 1 to December 1. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 11 December 2020

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Public sector debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/5/2021)
      TRUE: The CBSL has reported that the public sector debt is 109.7% of the GDP. This is the highest it has ever been in history. If we disregard the government’s undervaluation of sovereign bonds, this figure will exceed ...

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Sugar and Fats Imports 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/1/2021)
      TRUE: Compared to 2019, sugar imports have increased by 38% and oil and fat imports have increased by 237%. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Parliament Hansard, 11 February 2021

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: True on SL’s uneasy equilibrium, false on fuel bill savings 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 2/13/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: …the current normalcy in the country is at a low-level equilibrium. This is an uneasy equilibrium.... Our normal [monthly] fuel bill stood at US $ 550 million. It has now been cut down to US $ 200 million… Patali ...

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Yahapalanaya revenue increase 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: When the Yahapalana government came into power, state revenue was LKR 1.05 trillion. Our government doubled this income to LKR 2.1 trillion within 5 years. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Lankadeepa, 6 February 2020

    • Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: CEB profits and electricity access 

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      FactCheck       (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.

    • Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: Covid-19 community transmission 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/4/2020)
      TRUE: …No [COVID-19] patients were reported from the community in the period of close to three weeks that elapsed, because the disease did not spread amongst the community. - Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Ada Derana, 20 May 2020

    • Political participation of women 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/18/2019)
      Dinamina and Divaina report on a statement made by Sudharma Kulathunga, an executive member of the organisation ‘Women for Justice’. The entry also includes newspaper images of the said issue.

    • Political Prisoners 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)
      The manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the hunger strike launched by eight political prisoners in the Anuradhapura prison.

    • 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 ...

    • Press coverage on the tensions in Nayaru, Mullaitivu 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 9/30/2019)
      The infogrpahic describes the manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press covered the tensed situation in Nayaru, Mullaitivu over the cremation of a Buddhist monk on September 23, 2019.

    • Press headines on 08 August 2019 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 8/8/2019)
      Difference in headlines between Sinhala and Tamil press on August 08, 2019. Main story - Sinhala - Karannagoda and Goonetileke promoted (Lankadeepa, Ada), Murder case of Wasim Thajudeen (Dinamina, Resa) Main story - Tamil ...

    • Prof. W.D. Lakshman: Banking Sector 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/30/2020)
      TRUE - The banking sector remains strong with total capital adequacy ratio above 16 per cent, net stable funding ratio above 130 per cent, liquidity coverage ratio above 175 per cent and statutory liquid asset ratio above ...

    • Proposal to suspend standing orders defeated or the motion against the president deafeated? 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-19)
      On the proposal to suspend Parliament Standing Orders and debate motion against President, The Morning, Ceylon Today, Daily Mirror, and The Island correctly identified in their front page headlines that it was the proposal ...

    • Protest for land in Pottuvil 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/11/2018)
      The entry contains writeups pertaining to the manner in which the Tamil press covered the protest by families of Pottuvil urging their lands to be released. The entry also includes images of newspaper articles on the issue.

    • Protest in Kantale against Maaveerar naal 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 11/29/2018)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English pertaining to the manner in which the protest in Kantale against Maaveerar Naal was reported in the Sinhala and Tamil press. The entry also includes 2 images of ...

    • 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.