Sri Lanka is looking to become the most preferred destination in Asia for GCC travellers, having received a total of 107,635 tourists from the Middle East … As part of efforts to boost visitor numbers from the GCC, the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bur…
Colombo (News1st) – International media has reported that a boat carrying 131 Sri lankan nationals has been taken into custody by Malaysian Authorities. The individuals are suspected be illegal migrants attempting to travel to Australia and New Zealand…
Colombo (News1st) – Secretary to the President, Austin Fernando says that the Gazette detailing the duties and powers vested in ministries, following the cabinet reshuffle, will be issued next week. He noted that the Gazette is being prepared at presen…
Sri Lanka’s communist party JVP on Sunday said it would move the twentieth amendment to the Constitution seeking abolition of the all-powerful executive presidential system of governance. “We will soon start talking to Tamil and Muslim minority parties to get their support,” JVP senior member Vijitha …
Child abuse and neglect in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka – a study on knowledge attitude practices and behavior of health care professionals. M. G. SathiadasEmail authorView ORCID ID profile,; Arunath Viswalingam and; Karunya Vijayaratnam. BMC Pedia…
“This syndicate has been operating since mid-2017 and has international connections across Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Malaysia,” Fuzi said. A total of 127 Sri Lankans will be charged for entering Malaysia illegally while nine Mala…
Malaysian police have intercepted a tanker with 131 Sri Lankans believed bound for Australia and New Zealand, smashing a large people smuggling ring that has been operating for a year, authorities say. Authorities halted the modified tanker on Tuesday …
The question of party discipline /indiscipline provides a window to an understanding of some of the changing dynamics of Sri Lanka’s political party system at present.
The decade-long transition was helped along by the efforts of Scotsman James Taylor, who had already planted the first acres of tea in Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, in 1867. This was the launch of an industry that soon saw the Thomas Liptons of the wo…
( May 6, 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) For starters today, I was planning this secular prayer: Let us first say thanks for small mercies – for keeping Ravi Karunanayake out of the cabinet in last Tuesday’s reshuffle. Two days later the thunderbolt struck –the President’s Chief of Staff and the Timber …