Lulu Hypermarket is hosting an exciting week dedicated to Sri Lanka. ‘Sri Lankan Delights’, organised in partnership with the Sri Lankan Embassy, Oman, will see an array of products exclusively from Sri Lanka. H E M K Pathmanathan, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Oman, was present to inaugurate this …
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 …
"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…
Sri Lanka’s handing over of its strategic Hambantota port to a Chinese state-owned company has increased the chances of the two Asian giants engaging in a more intense power-struggle with “unexpected consequences,” in the Indian Ocean Region, according to former national security advisor.
The Sri Lankan Festival was launched yesterday, for the first time, at all LuLu outlets in Qatar under the theme ‘Rasavat Sri Lanka‘. The festival “mainly exhibits Sri … The festival was inaugurated by Sri Lankan ambassador ASP Liyanage at LuLu Hypermarket, Barwa City. The inaugural ceremony was …
(CNN) — When Sri Lanka’s government first looked to develop a port on its southern coast that faced the Indian Ocean, it went not to China, but to its neighbor, India. Then-Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said he urgently needed funding to transform the harbor of his home town and asked …
Moreover, Sri Lanka’s decision to sign a 99-year lease with a Chinese state-owned company for the Hambantota port to service some of the billions it owes to Beijing has some observers concerned other developing nations doing business with China as part of China’s One Belt One Road initiative might …
Sri Lanka has ordered a corruption investigation into its national carrier, including the controversial termination of a management deal with Emirates airline, the government said on Saturday. President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed a five-member …
A policeman in Sri Lanka has been arrested and remanded in police custody over the killing of a leading newspaper’s editor, a vocal critic of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, nine years ago, officials said here. Lasantha Wickrematunga, the founder and editor of the Sunday Leader, was waylaid by …
CHITTAGONG: Dhananjaya de Silva struck a century and shared 187 runs in an unbroken second wicket stand with Kushal Mendis as Sri Lanka gave a … This is de Silva’s second successive Test century after scoring an unbeaten 119 in Sri Lanka’s last match against India in New Delhi in December.