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One can hear ‘Ni Hao’ and ‘Xie Xie’ very often in the streets of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. While this may appear to be a passing comment made to be taken at face value, the remark actually demonstrates the profound penetration of Chinese influence in Kenya, even reaching ordinary Kenyan citizens, at the level […]
Chilean ex-President Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms and was also a billionaire businessman, has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74. Three other people aboard the aircraft survived when it came down in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco. Piñera had flown his own helicopter but there was […]
Businessman turned politician Dilith Jayaweera has denied claims that he is to support President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He accused Wickremesinghe of not having real concern about the future of the country. Jayaweera expressed these views while speaking in Anuradhapura. The leader of the Mawbima Janatha Pakshaya (MJP) said that his party is keen to establish a […]
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Nimisha Priya, barely 19, left the southern Indian state of Kerala for Yemen in 2008 with big dreams. She had found work as a nurse in a government-run hospital in the capital Saan’a and told her mother, a poorly-paid domestic helper, that their days of hardships would be over soon. Fifteen years later, that dream […]
[…]The post Suppressing Free Speech & Religious Freedom By Labelling Them Hate Speech appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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By N Sathiya Moorthy While the recent exit of Mullaitivu district judge T Saravanarajah from the country, alleging threat to his life, is still making news in capital Colombo and also elsewhere, in northern Jaffna, his Tamil political parties’ call for a human-chain flopped, like many such protests before it. In turn, this is going […]
by Rex Clementine The Asia Cup final last Sunday was a bitter pill to swallow. While 35,000 adoring fans turned up at RPS paying through the nose to witness a good game of cricket, most streets in the country were deserted as millions of ardent fans watched the proceedings on television with keenness hoping for […]
[…]The post Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Commissions, An “Open Sesame” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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Sri Lanka’s head of state intelligence service Suresh Sallay, who has been linked to the Easter Sunday attacks, has told a court that he and his family are under pressure. Sallay appeared before a district court on Monday in connection with a defamation suit filed by him against a Catholic priest over the 2019 Easter suicide […]
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[…]The post Hero Syndrome & Unlawful Acts: Politicians In The Fantasyland Of Omnipotence appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) During one of my visits to Colombo I got a call to see the President at ‘Breamar’. Gamini Dissanayake had told him of my friendship with Parathasarathy and he wanted me to help him repair the damage done to their friendship due to the abuse heaped […]
A top Sri Lankan athlete who set national records in the pole vault has been working as a housemaid in Dubai to help support her family at home. For the last year Sachini Perera, 24, has put her athletics dreams on hold when Sri Lanka’s currency crisis and soaring medical bills made it difficult for […]
A jury found a former New York City police sergeant and two Chinese citizens guilty on nine counts on Tuesday in a landmark federal trial involving a suspected Beijing-backed operation aimed at repatriating a Chinese fugitive living in New Jersey. Charged in the nearly three-week trial were former police officer-turned-private investigator Michael McMahon and two […]
Debt-laden Sri Lanka will unveil its domestic debt restructuring strategy this week, central bank chief P Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Sunday (Jun 25), as the island navigates its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka will also likely obtain Cabinet and parliamentary approval for the debt restructuring strategy this week, Weerasinghe told local TV channels […]
by Laleen Jayamanne ( Continued From Wednesday) The Multi-Ethnic fan base Gamini Fonseka, who introduced action (fights) with a new image of proletarian muscular masculinity into Sinhala cinema, was loved by both the Sinhala and Tamil male films fans for those reasons. His film Sarungale, where he played a rather sedentary Tamil Clerk (he spoke […]
Greatly saddened and given to discussion were Cass and her batch of friends on reading about the death of a 42-year-old Tamil domestic servant come to slave in a rich home in Colombo to support her very poor family in far-away Badulla. She worked at the home of teledrama producer cum businesswoman Sudharma Nethicumara. We […]
By N Sathiya Moorthy If there is one aspect of the Sri Lankan system that needs to be applauded but is not acknowledged by critics, whether nearer home or overseas, it is this. It may also be the reason why no government in the country has known enough to alter the status quo, and make […]
[…]The post Anura & Sajith: Sri Lanka’s Tweedledum And Tweedledee Or Hero And Jester appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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Reforms to be introduced to end ‘media abuses’ President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said that the government was not in a position to lower the taxes. Delivering his second government policy statement to inaugurate the Fourth session of the Ninth Parliament, the President said: “Some people say that the primary taxable income should be raised from […]
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe ceremonially declared open the fourth session of the ninth Parliament and delivered the Government Policy Statement today (February 08).The post Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.