- Former Central Bank Deputy Governor W A Wijewardene says proposed debt restructuring exercise will pose more questions than answers: warns of serious issues that could scuttle or delay the process.
- Journalist Associations challenge the High Security Zone regulations: say they will not obey the “arbitrary” laws.
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe holds bilateral discussions separately with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Singaporean PM Lee Hsien Loong, in Tokyo.
- Latest bi-annual Export Survey indicates that exporters are increasingly concerned about the implications of the expected contraction of the Sri Lankan economy on export orders, in the latter half of 2022: SMEs particularly vulnerable to the intensifying economic crisis.
- SJB Economic Guru MP Harsha de Silva says Sri Lanka is bankrupt and unable to make debt payments to creditors or import what is needed: also says inflation is massive, and economy is shrinking: previously, Silva spearheaded campaign to engineer the sovereign debt default, depreciate the currency and enter into an IMF programme.
- Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang snub Western powers: dismiss the “debt-trap” narrative of Western nations as “mischievous”: previously, China had expressed disappointment at Sri Lanka defaulting on its debt and seeking an arrangement with IMF.
- Young mother sells her 7-day old infant for Rs.50,000: arrested together with the husband of a nurse who facilitated the deal in a government hospital in Anuradhapura.
- Former President Maithripala Sirisena says declaring several areas as HSZs in Colombo is not advisable: claims it may pave the way for another uprising of the people as they are physically and mentally stressed.
- Public Utilities Commission Chairman Janaka Ratnayake says the quality of a recently imported crude oil shipment is not of the correct standard or composition: Petroleum Corporation disagrees.
- Public Health Inspectors urge health authorities to regulate tattoo studios and artists: say there is a danger in persons who lack adequate training wielding the “needle”.
