A lorry carrying over 1,700 kilograms of smuggled Kendu (ebony) leaves was intercepted by the Sri Lanka Navy in Duwa, Negombo yesterday (30 Dec.), leading to the arrest of a 44-year-old individual.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his condolences over the passing of the former Pope Benedict XVI.

The funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be held on January 5 in St. Peter s Square in the Vatican City at 9-30 a.m. local time, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.

A sailor belonging to the Sri Lanka Navy recently rescued a 24-year-old who was at risk of drowning in Kalpitiya.

Seven people including three children have sustained injuries after a three-wheeler crashed into a funeral procession.

Chinese leadership appears to have put the restrictive ‘Zero-Covid’ approach on the back-burner for now, even though some cities have been witnessing high infection numbers. This comes amid the faltering economy of China. Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China a ‘complete success’, where he secured […]

A recent academic study published in the journal One Earth, reveals that there are environmental downsides to China’s coastal infrastructure and projects with Africa being the worst affected by these projects. The marine habitats in Caribbean Island nations also face high risk. China has constructed numerous ports, bridges and other coastal projects throughout the developing […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s troubles related to his Zero-COVID policy that launched citizen’s demonstrations against his regime for apparently the first time as he began his third term at the top, is a message to dictators that they cannot take the working class for granted, according to Policy Research Group (POREG). “Xi’s problem is that […]

Uncertainty facing the global economy next year will exacerbate challenges at home for China, economists in Beijing say, while urging swift support to help counter external headwinds. As the risk of global recession looms, China should stay alert to turbulence in international markets and the potential of another financial crisis, said former vice-finance minister Zhu […]

The latest clash between Indian and Chinese troops along their disputed Himalayan border underscores the precarious nature of efforts to de-escalate tensions between the nuclear-armed Asian giants, analysts say, warning of the danger of more flare-ups. “This is the new normal along the LAC,” said Harsh V. Pant, vice president at the New Delhi-based Observer […]

Chinese authorities have recalled six diplomats from the UK after the Foreign Office demanded that they be stripped of their diplomatic immunity for questioning by police in connection with the violent incident at the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester. On October 16, a group of people reportedly dragged a Hong Kong protester into the premises […]

Former US marine pilot arrested in Australia now faces conspiracy charges to unlawfully export defence services to China, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. As per a 2017 indictment unsealed by a US District Court in Washington, Daniel Edmund Duggan also violated the US arms export control act. Earlier, Australian police had arrested Duggan in the […]

In a bid to understand the origins of the coronavirus, World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19. While briefing the media, as quoted in a statement on the organisation’s website, he said, “We continue to call on China to share the data and […]

Iran was ousted from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on Wednesday evening in the wake of the Mahsa Amini protest. In a vote of 29-8, some 16 countries, including India abstained from the vote. The eight nations who voted against were Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Bolivia, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Zimbabwe. The […]

China has opened the backdoor channel for assessing ties with US as Washington is “proactively making preparations for a conflict in the Taiwan Strait when it happens”, reported The HK Post. Information trickled in about the visit to New York of a group of former Chinese officials in early November as part of the largest […]

The proposed electricity tariffs are due to be presented to the Cabinet on 02 January 2023.

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health.

BBC reported that former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final […]

North Korea fired three ballistic missiles toward the sea east of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the South Korean military said.