May 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that investigations are still underway and the Sri Lankan mission in Malaysia is working …
May 062018
May 062018
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is in touch with Malaysian authorities after a ship full of boatpeople bound for Australia and New Zealand was detained, with 131 suspected Sri Lankans of which at least 43 had United Nations refugee identification papers. Malay…
May 062018
This mango-shaped island nation of Sri Lanka has become South Asia’s symbol of rebirth, transitioning from a lengthy period of civil war to its current enjoyment of increasing freedoms as democracy is being restored. It possesses an intrepid traveler’s trifecta: rich culture and history, a plethora of flora …
May 062018
ECONOMYNEXT – Engineers at state-run Ceylon Electricity Board has said they will go ahead with a work-to-rule campaign which may lead to extended power cuts, saying no steps were taken to approve a low cost power plan by the regulator despite a request…
May 062018
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…
May 062018
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 …
May 062018
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…
May 052018
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.
May 052018
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 052018
( 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 …