A thick carpet of emerald tea plantations cloaks Sri Lanka’s Hill Country. On the southwestern side of the region lies the lovely ‘golden valley’, Bogawantalawa, where amidst a sea of tea, planters’ bungalows overlook mirror-still Castlereagh Lake. Across on the eastern side of the uplands, the landscape …
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today assured the minority Tamil community that his government was not running any secret detention and torture … The OMP was one of the accountability mechanisms advocated in UN Human Rights Council…
From the British royal coat of arms, a reminder that we were once a colony, to the Emblem symbolising the Dominion of Ceylon to the familiar gold insignia of Sri Lanka we have all come to know and identify with. This is how I became acquainted with my …
The Bishop of Colombo, Dhiloraj Canagasabey, has called on Sri Lanka’s politicians to adopt of a code of conduct for parliamentarians. In an Independence Message, published in The Daily FT newspaper on the 70th anniversary of the country’s independence from British rule, Bishop Dhiloraj bemoans …
Hi, we will be in Sri lanka between 17.08.2018 – 26.08.2018. ? read that the weather will be good in east and North. there will be rain in West and South. where can we go for beach in Agust? Is there any place that you do not advise to go…
Feb 05, Moscow: Sri Lanka Tea Board in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Embassy in Russia in Moscow has organized a Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Tea stand at the Food and Beverages International Exhibition PRODEXPO 2018 held in Moscow from today. PRODEXPO 2018 Exhibition will be held until …
"In 2015, Sri Lankan voters chose a new government that pledged transparency, reconciliation, and accountability. We look forward to even greater progress on these areas in the coming year, along with increased peace, prosperity, and further growt…
Hello everybody and ErikandSandya, we are a couple travelling to Sri Lanka in March and we would like to know your opinions and suggestions regarding our schedule: Day 0 – arriving at 4pm to Bandaranaike International Airport, buying local…
This is the stomach-churning moment a huge python was filmed devouring a deer at a national park in Sri Lanka. The video was recorded on a phone by enthusiastic tourists who saw it happen at Bundala National Park in Hambantota on January 29. The python…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s police will travel to escort back home the fugitive former diplomat, Udayanga Weeratunga, to face charges of corruption in the purchase of MiG aircraft, Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayaka said. Weeratunga was reportedly stopped at the Dubai international airport …