France, India and Japan have teamed up and invited others to join in the rescue of Sri Lanka’s crippled economy; a crisis blamed on mindless spending by the island’s former rulers of money borrowed from various countries.

France has become the most recent to join the list of countries that have outlawed the Chinese short video app TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese technology company Bytedance, on phones of govt officials over security issues. The public was informed of this recent government decision by French Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini, who is also in charge of Digital Transmission and Telecommunications.