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[@rangaba](/creator/twitter/rangaba)
"High-powered motorcycles including BMW and Harley-Davidson models were smuggled into Sri Lanka in 2021 in shipping containers declared as bird feed for the Birds Park private aviary. Police are seeking park owner Ajith Gallage reportedly ill with bird flu"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1944670845001216158) 2025-07-14 08:10:34 UTC 41.7K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Topless stroll lands Thai transwoman in trouble at Sri Lankas Arugam Bay. The Pottuvil magistrate sentenced the 26-year-old to X weeks in prison after she pleaded guilty to X counts of indecent exposure and causing a public nuisance. Sentence suspended for X years"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945136686796824924) 2025-07-15 15:01:39 UTC 41.7K followers, 14K engagements


"The @CBSL has cut the loan value for electric vehicles to safeguard financial stability. EVs depreciate faster than petrol or diesel cars. At current depreciation of EVs banks and leasing firms could hold assets worth less than half the loaned amount within X years"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1946413634697207901) 2025-07-19 03:35:47 UTC 41.7K followers, 1306 engagements


"Unlike other ambassadors outgoing US envoy Julie Chung was better known for savouring Sri Lankan street food. The jury is still out on whether she had the shape of Sri Lanka tattooed on her left leg. Her dog Martha was also a controversial social media star"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1944006803253342502) 2025-07-12 12:11:54 UTC 41.7K followers, 8258 engagements


"@yohes1 @BimalRathnayake Under the motor traffic act an international driving licence holder must get it authenticated by the commissioner general of motor traffic or the Automobile Association of Sri Lanka. Ditto for citizens of the Commonwealth whose driving licences are valid if they are verified"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1946396797233979488) 2025-07-19 02:28:53 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@PranaSiva @CBSL LTV is Loan to Value ratio. If the vehicle is bought for XXX rupees and the LTV ratio is XX% banks/finance companies can lend only XX rupees to the buyer. By reducing the LTV for EVs the @CBSL is making it more difficult to buy an electric vehicle"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1946100307710365822) 2025-07-18 06:50:44 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Six baby elephants return to the jungle today after being rescued and nursed back to health at the Elephant Transit Home Udawalawe. With this release XXX jumbos have been sent back to the wild since the first in 1998. (video credit: ENV Media)"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945833222585331929) 2025-07-17 13:09:26 UTC 41.7K followers, 3129 engagements


"Good news for BYD owners: youre never truly alone. Big Brothers already in the back seat. Your cars already chatting with China about where you are and how you drive just ask the Israeli army which banned BYDs over a slight concern: Chinese"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1944701938974527881) 2025-07-14 10:14:07 UTC 41.7K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Sri Lanka Police is trying to fix its public image literally. Acting IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya opened the first police-run Beauty Salon and plans to spread more BS across the island. Treatments are open for men and women in uniform. Spas next"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945735319523061867) 2025-07-17 06:40:24 UTC 41.7K followers, 9121 engagements


"Party over for electric vehicles A surge in EV imports was driven by banks and leasing firms financing up to XX% of the price. From today @CBSL cuts this to XX% while raising the LTV for 3-wheelers from XX% to XX% still lower than for other vehicles"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1946089638151790869) 2025-07-18 06:08:20 UTC 41.7K followers, 3684 engagements


"@r_evarts @Sival33533 @NewsWireLK Not many have realised the tax implication after April X 2025"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945712352143511813) 2025-07-17 05:09:08 UTC 41.7K followers, XX engagements


"Sri Lanka to review the handling of merchandise ordered via e-commerce platforms like AliExpress and eBay following the latest customs crackdown. This has led to e-com sites halting deliveries or sharply raising shipping charges"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945078806835818812) 2025-07-15 11:11:40 UTC 41.7K followers, 1448 engagements


"Days are numbered for Inspector-General Deshabandu Tennakoon and senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena with both set to hear the outcome of misconduct investigations shortly"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1946475427658408354) 2025-07-19 07:41:20 UTC 41.7K followers, 1495 engagements


"Pottuvil Magistrate A.L.M. Hilmy may have set a legal precedent by finding a Thai tourist guilty of indecent exposure for not covering his chest not an offence for men in Sri Lanka which does not recognise a 3rd gender. So how did Hilmy decide when the passport says male"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945709326364230011) 2025-07-17 04:57:07 UTC 41.7K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Birds Park owner Ajith Gamage has been remanded until July XX in connection with XX smuggled motorcycles found at his aviary in Hambantota last week. The vehicles were brought into the country in shipping containers falsely declared as bird feed"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1946101988808384589) 2025-07-18 06:57:25 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@r_evarts @Sival33533 @NewsWireLK From April X 2025 any Sri Lankan earning/receiving over Rs. 150000 a month is liable to pay tax. However if the money comes from abroad the maximum tax rate is 15%. During the Rajapaksa-era (both MR and GR) there was no upper limit all foreign remittances were tax free"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945696856266432563) 2025-07-17 04:07:34 UTC 41.7K followers, XX engagements


"Indonesia a smaller garment export competitor to Sri Lanka secures a tariff deal with the US. The tariff drops from XX% to XX% lower than Vietnam's XX% after Jakarta agrees to purchase $15bn in energy $4.5bn in agriculture and XX Boeing jets Sri Lanka's tariff is 30%"  
![@rangaba Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::140395166.png) [@rangaba](/creator/x/rangaba) on [X](/post/tweet/1945361094681485821) 2025-07-16 05:53:22 UTC 41.7K followers, 8664 engagements