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Hong Kong-based fashion giant the Esquel Group confirms it has cut production in Sri Lanka resulting from “the loss of many US customers”.

After remaining silent for days as the anti-government protests swelled, the unions are now claiming to support them. But they do so with the aim of preventing them from becoming a challenge to capitalist rule.

Heavily dependent on tourism, Sri Lanka’s economic situation worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic. Prices of essential commodities like fuel, medicines, milk and wheat, as well as public transport fares, have shot up and unions are calling for wage increases for workers to survive.

Twelve unions across Sri Lanka have launched a joint campaign to demand a rise of 10,000 rupees (US $49) in the monthly minimum wage of private sector employees, and to oppose the government’s decision to exclude private sector employees from a scheme that grants a monthly allowance of 5,000 rupees (US $25) to public sector employees and pensioners.

President Rajapakse has made clear that his government will take no action to stem the rising number of Omicron infections.

One reason why certain sports people are more successful than others is their ability to use constructive criticism. And South African jockey Keagan Latham is one of them.

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5:25PM, JAN 30 2021 Foxwedge is now the sire of four individual Group winners, all of whose victories have been achieved in different countries, after Run Fox Run joined the list in the Cape Flying Championship at Kenilworth on Saturday. A Group 1-winning sprinter in Australia, the Fastnet Rock stallion spent the middle of last decade at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire before returning home, and has been based at Woodside Park Stud in Victoria. His best performers to date have been...

Good spread of runners in this year’s Met Jack Milner Belgarion, ridden by Richard Fourie, won the 2020 Vodacom Durban July and is the favourite for the Met. Picture: Candiese Lenferna “It’s a nice spread of generations at weight for age, which is not what we get often these days because the...