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Recent developments in the Middle East remind us that freedom remains a question of critical concern for the billions of people living under nondemocratic regimes. At the same time, events in the region show us just how difficult the attainment of democracy really is, there and elsewhere. How to develop a press that is free Ridding the world ...
It’s strange how the innovations of the world tend to wrap around our daily life. One of them is the brand Facebook. I have been trying to locate a friend of mine for the last 12 years and failed, until I used a modern IT application like FB and today I realise the power of ...
by Jayantha Dhanapala (Text of Keynote Address titled Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power- Sustainable Smart Power at the Opening Plenary of the South and Central Asia Fulbright Regional Workshop, Hilton Hotel, Colombo, 26 January, 2011.) I think it is necessary...
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...
By: Bruce Cheadle OTTAWA — There’s a global recession and Canada’s economy is not immune. Shiploads of strange, foreign refugees — economic migrants and oppressed minorities — have been landing on our shores, fleeing civil war, economic up heaval and...
to boost the country’s economy. The Cabinet of ...
By K. Ratnayake Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s trip to New York and speech at the UN General Assembly last week had two main purposes: to cover up for war crimes committed during the country’s civil war and to appeal...
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty ...
Budget’s, Chinthana’s 8% growth target An economist picked holes on the Government’s Mahinda Chinthana policy document that envisages the economy to grow by 8% and to double the per capita g.d.p. income to U.S.$ 4,000 by 2015. Professor Srimal Abeyratne, Senior Lecturer, Colombo University’s
June 16, 2010: 11.00 am Siobhain McDonagh: (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab): I am grateful for the chance to highlight again the appalling treatment of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government....