By: Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe In the mid nineteen eighties, the Philippines was rocked by a sustained people’s resistance movement that finally deposed of the hated and corrupt dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, who had to flee the country in a US Air Force helicopter. The Catholic Church, representing the majority of the people, played a critical role ...

A Sri Lankan man was among four people wounded in separate stabbing incidents in Male on Saturday night, according to reports reaching Colombo.The other three were Maldivians one of whom died in hospital, the following day. Maldivian newspapers earlier reported that a foreign expatriate, was among the victims, and was receiving treatment after being assaulted with a sharp object by two men on a mo...

The Secretary General of South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has decided to resign her post after she was accused of siding with anti-government forces in the political crisis engulfing the Maldives. Maldivian media reports said Dhiyana Saeed would hand hover her resignation

by Dr.Nihal Jayawickrama In an article published in a Sunday newspaper, and in a recycled version published on a popular website, Dr Dayan Jayatilaka continues his defence of the indefensible Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. That piece of secret legislation...

Cabinet Ministers of the Maldives have applauded the task discharged by the Sri Lankan Government including President Rajapaksa, amidst the political crisis in their country. A high level delegation, including four Maldivian Ministers is now on a visit to Sri Lanka. A media conferences summoned

PTI, Thursday, July 1, 2010 19:09 China today backed Sri Lanka in its opposition to the setting up of a human rights panel by the UN to look into alleged rights abuses during the ethnic war, saying the government was...