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....

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....

 US based Marriott International said in a statement that it has signed up with Sri Lanka's East West Properties Plc, to open a 200-room hotel in Weligma, in 2014.The 11-storey Weligama Bay Marriott Resort & Spa, will be operated under Marriott's flagship Marriott Hotels & Resorts brand. "Sri Lanka is a destination that has great potential and opportunity and we hope to capitalise...

By Surendra Ajith Rupasinghe The aftermath of the Geneva drama has brought out new dimensions and intensified  contradictions internationally, regionally and locally. This article is an initial attempt to strategically map the emerging scenario and position the various major players and locate their respective agendas, and charter a path to freedom and democracy. The Role ...

While the debate is on in the UNHRC assembly in Geneva, on the streets of Sri Lanka and even on the streets of some cities in Europe, the objectives of the American sponsored Resolution on alleged human rights violations by Sri Lankan armed forces, appear to be lost on most of those concerned, even the ...

The right to privacy is our right to keep a domain around us, which includes all those things that are part of us, such as our body, home, thoughts, feelings, secrets and identity. The right to privacy gives us the ability to choose which parts in this domain can be accessed by others, and to ...

By S. V. Kirubaharan - in France Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” — Julius Henry, Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star (1890-1977). When life is smooth and everything goes in the right direction, normal civilians can become President, Prime Minister ...

The TNA says that it is prepared to discuss the UN Expert Panel’s report with China and Russia. If the need arises we are prepared to explain the reality behind the UN report to China and Russia, TNA General Secretary Mavai Senathirajah told Ada Derana.

Parliamentrians claim that Bank Ki-moon’s baseless Expert Panel Report is a futile attempt made to paralyse the country’s development path.   Minister Sarath Amunugama said that the country at this juncture should protect the war heroes. The Expert Panel had been appointed surpassing the international laws and to seek its recommendations. It is very clear ...

By Sumanasiri Liyanage So many things have been written on the Report of the Expert Panel appointed by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon. Should I litter the already crowded discourse space with another piece? I thought I should...

‘Jewels Sri Lanka 2010′ is an international gem, mineral, and jewellery exhibition which opens the doors of the international market for local traders. It is the first time that such an exhibition is being organized in Sri Lanka. President Rajapaksa opened the Exhibition at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Conference Hall in Colombo today. The Exhibition is ...

Thus spake Barak Hussein Obama at the Big Apple gathering: “In times of economic unease there can be an anxiety about human rights.” “Today, as in the past times of economic downturn, some place human rights aside for the  promise of short term stability or the false notion that economic growth can come at the ...

Asian boxing heavyweights, India, will go head to head with the gutsy Sri Lankans in the Dual Championships on Saturday (Sept. 4) at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium . The dual coincides with both nations’ preparations for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in India in October. It also marks the fifth International Dual organised by the Amateur ...

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Students residing and schooling in Colombo had the bar to university entrance set higher in the mid 1970s, what with district and media wise standardisation the order of the day....