By Uditha Devapriya
Last week’s attacks in Kashmir have left India and Pakistan in a tangled web. More than anything, there remains a big question mark over the future of…
By Nimendra Mawalagedara
The recently imposed US tariffs on Sri Lanka are not merely an economic challenge - they are a signal of a transformation in the contemporary global political…
By Lahiru Thilakarathna
Is the Sri Lankan agrifood export sector in trouble due to the ongoing tariff encounters with the United States, and if so, to what extent?
The answer…
By Dinouk Colombage
Coated under the guise of economic rebalancing, the US tariffs have been described as a complete disregard of the rule-based order (RBO) that has governed global politics…
By Rear Admiral Y. N. Jayarathna (Retd.)
The St Anthony’s Church festival in Katchatheevu recently wrapped up for the year. As has been the case for the past many years,…
By Uditha Devapriya
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to land in Sri Lanka on Friday, April 4. Over the next two days he is expected to engage with…
By Hannes Romare
Exclusive to Factum from EPIS Thinktank on Foreign and Security Policy
The Chagos Islands, or The British Indian Ocean Territory? Is the Chagos archipelago a part of…
By Brayan Jayawardhana
Two weeks ago, on March 10, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sirkorski took to X to respond to Elon Musk’s claim that Ukraine’s “entire front line” would collapse…
Factum, in collaboration with Democracy Reporting International (DRI), will monitor and analyse online political discourse and elections and report harmful content online (e.g. inauthentic behavior, disinformation and hate speech incidents)…
By Jayson Cainglet
At 09:20 (Manila Time) on the morning of March 11, 2025, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court served an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity…
Last year, 12 digital rights organizations across South Asia, including Factum, came together in Kathmandu to exchange lessons and learnings amid rising state-sanctioned and platform-mediated technology authoritarianism in the region.…
By Niruni de Mel
Imagine a rural community in Sri Lanka where a once-thriving agricultural initiative suddenly comes to a halt. Farmers who relied on USAID-funded fertilizer support are left…