COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s two ruling parties are setting up a committee to examine the future of the unity government after an unexpected thrashing in local elections over the weekend, a senior minister said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena listens to a speech …
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The Yahapalana elite and their Western and Indian backers thought they had acquired Sri Lanka on January 8, 2015. They were wrong. A cynical geo-strategist would say the West and India lost the Local Government election and China won. That’s not strictly true. Counterattacking from below, the …
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Hello, considering visiting Sri Lanka, went some years ago where we did Kandy, temple of tooth, sigiryia etc and really enjoyed it. Now considering going back because was such a nice place, back when we went (about 10 year ago) it wasn’t very…
Asoka Obeyesekere, a Barrister and political scientist, is the Executive Director of Transparency International Sri Lanka, which is the National Chapter of Transparency International (TI), the leading global movement against corruption. Previously, he …
( February 14, 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) This Local Government election is unique in that this is the only LG election in history to decide the contours of central government power. Unique in that a political party leader as president who was …
Rare turtles are being smuggled out of India to Hong Kong and Singapore through two routes including one via Sri Lanka, investigations have revealed. Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) has sent intelligence inputs to wildlife officia…
Crisis gripped Sri Lanka’s first national unity government on Tuesday, with President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe failing to reach a consensus on the future of their coalition government, following the huge defeat their parties suffered in the recent local government …
For me, travelling has never been as palpable or profound as it was on a recent trek across Sri Lanka. On a National Geographic Journeys tour led by the Canadian travel company G Adventures, we circled the country starting from the bustling capital of …