COLOMBO — For its $15 billion Port City Colombo project, Sri Lanka has launched a new campaign aimed at global investors, offering major tax breaks and full foreign ownership as it tries to position ...
Likewise in Sri Lanka the President and leader of the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)led National People’s Power (NPP) Government is Anura Kumara Dissanayake. However it is widely believed that ...
Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...
A group of monks, led by veteran trade unionist Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero, is planning to hold a sangha convention on February 20. They feel insulted and ignored by the powers that be. And they want ...
Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...
This verdict forces Sri Lanka to confront not merely the brutality of one afternoon in Nittambuwa, but the combustible political culture that made such an afternoon possible. No one disputes that what ...
South African comedian, writer, producer, and political commentator Trevor Noah makes this observation in his memoir ‘Born a Crime,’ reflecting on how language can either bind communities together or ...
(This article was first written in 2018 for the “Spotlight” column in the “Daily Financial Times” to commemorate the 30th death anniversary of popular actor-politician Vijaya Kumaratunga. It was ...
(Article Reposted to Commemorate Upali Wijewardene’s’s 88th B’day(Feb 17)and Day of Disappearance(Feb 13)43 years ago) Sri Lanka known earlier as Ceylon has produced several businessmen and ...
The provincial councils scheme , implemented since 1988, has seen a number of chief ministers being elected by the various provincial councils over the years. Although the norm has been for each ...
Sri Lanka is experiencing a tremendous economic crisis. Several knowledgeable persons describe the current period as the worst ever phase in the Island nation’s post-Independence history. Many acts of ...
The first and second parts of this article published on 14 and 21 Ocober respectively narrated the story of how I was arrested by the CID in October 1987 and detained on the 4th floor for having ...
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