Photo courtesy of Asia News Twelve years ago today The Sunday Leader Editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was brutally murdered in broad daylight within a high security zone. His killers have never been punished....

Photo courtesy of Asia News Twelve years ago today The Sunday Leader Editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was brutally murdered in broad daylight within a high security zone. His killers have never been punished....

With no incidents of terrorism or a threat of its resurgence within Sri Lanka, most counter terrorism activities undertaken by the government in 2011 targeted possible LTTE overseas finances, a United States government report said.  'Country Reports on Terrorism 2011', an annual report  issued by the The US State Department - reviews the counter terrorism events worldwide last year, said...

with its counterparts in countries such as Mongolia, Russia, ...

( April 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera we...

Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera went to China and secured assurances of a US$1....

Shift The Human Rights Council made a shift from May 2009 by voting (March 22) to criticize the Sri Lankan government for “not adequately address... serious allegations of violations of international law” when conducting its final phases of war against the liberation guerrilla army LTTE (Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam), which ended, May 18, 2009, with government-caused ...

Fat burners do not burn fat, literally; aphrodisiacs are frustratingly passionless; tablets to prolong passion fall short of the desired duration; green tea is trying to slim fat bodies; memory enhancers inevitably cause dementia; Minoxidil and hair formulae keep heads balding; and beauty products create superficial, transient beauty. There are medications to elongate the phallus ...

Let’s learn the right lessons from the Geneva outcome, not the wrong ones. It is not the case that a small country such as Sri Lanka cannot fight a diplomatic battle with the mighty USA and win. Minutes after the Sri Lanka vote at the HRC this time, the Cubans moved a resolution on the composition ...

Amid mounting speculation of potential oil reserves in Sri Lanka's seawaters, Indian media reports have suggested that India might be looking for a greater involvement overstepping China and Russia, who are also believed to be interested in oil exploration deals with the island nation.

India, China and Russia are interested about Sri Lanka's potential oil reserves, reports say.

Thousands of jobs at risk By Indika Sri Aravinda The  tea industry, the country’s second largest net foreign exchange earner is facing a potential crisis as a result of the economic sanctions imposed on Iran by the US government, the Sri Lanka Tea Board said. Tea Board Chairperson Janaki Kuruppu told The Sunday Leader that ...

(Srilankamirror) - The Russian centre will hold an art exhibition to celebrate 55 years of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and Russia. The exhibition will be held from 6:30 p.m. onwards on February 19th 2012 at Palm Lounge, Galle Face Hotel. The event will feature art exhibits

By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Nothing is closer to the law of the jungle than a system of distorted laws and procedures” Haaretz Editorial (2.1.2012) President Rajapaksa won the Eelam War, with the help of countless others (including the imprisoned Gen. Fonseka). In fairytales, the hero who saves a country from some deadly peril is rewarded with ...

Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...

Hatton National Bank plc (HNB), the only local bank to be a member of the Asian Bankers’ Association (ABA), reaped the dividends of this relationship at the height of the Great Recession which hit the world four years ago. Rajendra Theagarajah, HNB’s Managing Director/CEO and the incumbent ABA Chairman told reporters on Wednesday that his ...

by M.D. Nalapat That old habits die hard is clear from the way in which the functionaries of the European Union seek to influence the developing economies on the best way to manage their nations. And woe betide those leaders...

By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...