Knowing that this was his one chance to prove to the world that he is the next big thing in martial arts, 32-year-old Sudarshana Deshappriya set up on the Sri Lanka’s Got Talent stage with his bricks and roof tiles. He proceeded to show his strength by breaking the tiles on his flexed arms, all while doing …
I was in Sri Lanka when the news of the racial riots in the district of Kandy broke. The magnitude of the attacks came as a shock. Needless to say that this shattered my sense of safety and security. I was in Kandy, miles from Digana and Teldeniya, eng…
In 2017, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health saw 186,101 cases, about 3 1/2 times the number of cases reported in 2016. In the first three months of 2018, health officials reported 14,627 dengue cases, less than half of 33, 191 cases reported during the same period last year. Approximately 31.7% of dengue …
In a special ceremony held today at Nonagama Cultural Centre in Ambalantota in Hambantota District, Mahinda Amaraweera, Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, and Taranjit Singh Sandhu, High Commissioner of India, jointly launched a p…
COLOMBO, April 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka and China in the past five years have made significant progress in jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative in the island country through which the country’s economy has greatly benefited, said Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka. Chinese Ambassador Cheng …
This year Sri Lanka will despatch its largest ever business and trade delegation targeting the Commonwealth. Sri Lanka is also scheduled to unveil its new country branding & slogan for its ICT sector in London next week. “Sri Lanka is one of the St…
Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Services, Information Technology and Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares lower. At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.38% to hit a new 1-month lo…
ECONOMYNEXT – Tourist arrivals into Sri Lanka rose 24.1% to 233,382 in March 2018 from a year ago, despite violence against minority Moslems that prompted the government to impose a state of emergency and led to cancellations of hotel bookings. The lar…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister have been urged to stop shuffling secretaries of ministries starting from the next cabinet re-shuffle in a bid to bring back good governance which was broken by ending permanent secretaries. Sri Lanka’s independent public service was broken …
COLOMBO, April 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka received 707,924 tourists during the first three months of this year, and it was an increase of 17.1 percent compared with the corresponding period of last year, a minister here said on Monday. Tourism Development…