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Gather 'round, gather 'round! Have you been squashed in a bus? Been stuck in a fuel queue praying for the end? Waited for a train that was way too late? Of course you have. Which is why we have a brand new 🚨DROP🚨 today, and it's about . . . TRANSPORT in #SriLanka

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Sri Lankans have been dealing with severe import restrictions since COVID-19. Since then it had gotten worse.

took a deep dive into SL’s import restrictions and how sustainable it is to address country’s deep rooted economic issues

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Sri Lanka's Import Restriction Predicament

The crippling shortage of foreign exchange forced the government to put a lid on imports. A protectionist policy of sorts. But the question remains. Why do we pay so much for imports? Why did the...

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One of the most interesting things (to me) about transport in #LKA: everyone complains about tuk-tuks, but they are by far one of the biggest movers of people in our transport system. I think those complaining about them have got the wrong idea - we should embrace the tuk.

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Let's just say there's a reason why we look like we're slowly going mad. But here you go: read, enjoy and share! Or rather, read, get pissed off about it, and share! Either way. Welcome to TOO SLOW TOO FURIOUS!

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Inside Sri Lanka’s incompetent, inefficient, and increasingly overloaded transport systems.

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And who's responsible for this mess? Well, we took a stab at that, too . . . In here you'll find the bizarre, byzantine and sometimes outright batshit politicking that took us to where we are, from bullock carts to trams to cancelled monorail projects . . .

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Along the way, we even built an entire interactive app to help you figure out how much that dream car of yours will cost you! Embedded in the article: longform.watchdog.team/c7f3e10d30b241

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You want to know how much we're spending (or underspending) on public transport? Yes, we got that, too. We've also got how it got here and why. All the way from bullock carts to open economies to cancelled monorails!

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You want to know how many vehicles are out there? How people actually travel? Why we make the choices we do? We went through everything from NTC reports to data from the Central Bank to research papers to talking with experts to bring you everything.

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And here's what we've built: a comprehensive 9,000 word examination of transport, including the basics of how transport contributes to our lives at every scale. Including an additional 3,000+ words on the history of Sri Lankan transport and comparisons.

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d) Our transport system is very Colombo-centric, but we probably need more roads; not just highways, but B-grade roads that serve the everyday commutes of more people b) We have an old railway system with a fair length but relatively little coverage

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Because we have problems! a) A lot of vehicles on the road, and the distribution is skewing even more towards private transport b) Public transport is on the highway to hell c) No optimization for walking because we don’t even count pavements

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So we set out to understand how Transport in Sri Lanka works (or doesn't). How many vehicles are there on the roads? How much road do we have? How much are we spending on public transport? What part does transport play in this nebulous thing we call an economy, anyway?

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The rescued passengers have arrived safely in Vung Tau. They have been provided temporary accommodation and are currently being cared for by the provincial government of the Ba Rịa-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam.

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MRCC, Singapore, in coordination with MRCC Vung Tau issued safety broadcasts to vessels in the vicinity, requesting aid to the sinking ship. At 4.20 pm, a commercial Japanese vessel, Helios Leader, arrived to provide assistance.

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Consequently, the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Colombo sought the help of maritime authorities in Singapore, Vietnam and the Phillipines.

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Sri Lanka Navy spokesperson Capt. Indika de Silva reported that a Sri Lankan passenger on board reached out to the Navy in distress when the ship began to encounter problems amidst worsening weather conditions.

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The vessel, named LADY 3, was purportedly heading towards Canada when its engine room began to flood.

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On the 7th of November, more than 300 ‘migrants’ on board a Myanmar-flaggged fishing vessel were rescued. The vessel had began to sink approximately 250 nautical miles off Vung Tau on Vietnam’s southern coast, not far from the Spratly Islands.

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VERIFIED - More than 300 ‘migrants’ fleeing SL economic crisis rescued from sinking ship

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සංක්‍රමණිකයින් පිරිසට මේ වන විට වියට්නාමයේ බා රියා-වුන්ග් තාඕ ප්‍රාන්තයේ තාවකාලික නවාතැන් පහසුකම් ලබාදී ඇත.

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එවිට සිංගප්පූරුවේ හා වියට්නාමයේ අදාළ අංශ, විපතට පත්වූ යාත්‍රාවට උපකාරී වන ලෙස එම ප්‍රදේශයේ සියලු නෞකාවන්ට පණිවුඩයක් යවා ඇත. පස්වරු 4:20ට පමණ, ජපාන වාණිජ්‍ය නෞකාවක් වන හිලියෝස් ලීඩර් නැවේ නාවිකයන් විසින් විපතට පත් යාත්‍රාවේ ගමන්ගත් සියලුදෙනා මුදවාගන්නා ලදි.

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ඉන් පසුව, නාවික හමුදාවේ අදාළ අංශය සිංගප්පුරුවේ, වියට්නාමයේ සහ පිලිපීනයේ අදාළ බලධාරීන්ගේ උපකාරය පතා ඇත.

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ශ්‍රී ලංකා නාවික හමුදා ප්‍රකාශක කපිතාන් ඉන්දික ද සිල්වා පැවසුවේ එම යාත්‍රාවේ සිටි ශ්‍රී ලාංකික පුරවැසියෙකු අයහපත් කාලගුණ තත්ත්වයත් සමඟ ඇතිවූ අනතුර පිළිබඳව මෙරට බලධාරීන් දැනුවත් කළ බවයි.

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ලේඩි 3 නම් මෙම ධීවර යාත්‍රාව කැනඩාව බලා ගමන්කරන අතරතුර එන්ජිම් කාමරයේ වතුර කාන්දුවක් හටගත් බව වාර්තා වී ඇත.

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වියට්නාමයේ දකුණු වෙරළ තීරයේ වුන්ග් තාඕ (Vung Tau) නගරයෙන් නාවික සැතපුම් 250ක් පමණ දුරින් ස්ප්‍රැට්ලි දුපත්වලට (Spratly Islands) ආසන්නව මෙම යාත්‍රාව ගිලීයාම ආරම්භ වී තිබුණි.

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නොවැම්බර් මස 07 වන දින, මියන්මාරයේ කොඩිය දරන ධීවර යාත්‍රාවකින් සංක්‍රමණිකයින් 300කට අධික පිරිසක් මහ මුහුදේ දී බේරා ගැනුණි.

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයෙන් මිදීමට පලාගිය ‘සංක්‍රමණිකයින්’ 300කට අධික පිරිසක් ජපාන නෞකාවක් විසින් මහ මුහුදේ දී බේරා ගනී

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மீட்கப்பட்ட பயணிகள் Vung Tau க்கு பாதுகாப்பாக அழைத்து வரப்பட்டு தற்காலிகமாக தங்க வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். இவர்கள் தற்போது வியட்நாமின் Ba Rịa-Vung Tau மாகாண அரசாங்கத்தால் பராமரிக்கப்பட்டு வருகின்றனர்.

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சிங்கப்பூர் MRCC, Vung Tau MRCC உடன் ஒருங்கிணைந்து மூழ்கும் கப்பலுக்கு உதவுமாறு அப் பகுதியில் பயணித்த ஏனைய கப்பல்களிடம் உதவி கோரின. இதற்கமைய அன்று மாலை 4.20 மணியளவில், ஹீலியோஸ் லீடர் என்ற ஜப்பானிய வணிகக் கப்பல் உதவி வழங்க முன்வந்தது.

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இதன் விளைவாக, கொழும்பிலுள்ள கடல்சார் மீட்பு ஒருங்கிணைப்பு மையம் (MRCC) சிங்கப்பூர், வியட்நாம் மற்றும் பிலிப்பைன்ஸில் நாடுகளின் கடல்சார் அதிகாரிகளின் உதவியை நாடியது.

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மோசமான காலநிலைக்கு மத்தியில் இக் கப்பல் ஆபத்தை எதிர்நோக்கிய போது, கப்பலில் இருந்த இலங்கைப் பயணி ஒருவர் கடற்படையை தொடர்பு கொண்டதாக இலங்கை கடற்படையின் பேச்சாளர் கப்டன் இந்திக டி சில்வா தெரிவித்தார்.

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லேடி 3 என்று பெயரிடப்பட்ட இக் கப்பல் கனடாவை நோக்கிச் சென்று கொண்டிருந்தபோது அதன் இயந்திர அறையினுள் நீர் புகுந்ததாக தெரிவிக்கப்படுகிறது.

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நவம்பர் 7 ஆம் திகதி, மியன்மார் கொடியுடன் பயணித்த மீன்பிடிக் கப்பலில் இருந்த 300 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட ‘புலம்பெயர்ந்தோர்’ மீட்கப்பட்டனர். வியட்நாமின் தெற்கு கரையில் வுங் டௌவிலிருந்து சுமார் 250 கடல் மைல் தொலைவில் இக் கப்பல் மூழ்கத் தொடங்கியது.

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சரிபார்க்கப்பட்டது - இலங்கையின் பொருளாதார நெருக்கடியிலிருந்து தப்பியோடிய 300க்கும் மேற்பட்ட ‘புலம்பெயர்ந்தோர்’ மூழ்கும் கப்பலில் இருந்து மீட்கப்பட்டனர்

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மனிதர்களுக்கு இந்நோய் தொற்றுக்குள்ளான விலங்குகள் அல்லது மனிதர்களின் தொடுகையின் மூலம் தொற்றக்கூடும். புண்களுடனான தொடுகை, உடல் திரவங்கள், சுவாசம் மற்றும் தொற்று பொருட்கள் மூலமும் இந்நோய் பரவக்கூடும்.

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உலக சுகாதார நிறுவனத்தின் படி இந்நோயின் அறிகுறிகள் 2-4 வாரங்கள் நீடிக்கக்கூடும். இந்நோய் சில வேளைகளில் உயிருக்கு ஆபத்தை விளைவிக்கவும் கூடும்.

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