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(The Island) One of the country’s erudite diplomats – Deshamanya Dr. Vernon L.B. Mendis passed away recently on the 23rd of June. He was 85 yrs at the time of his death.
Dr. Mendis who hailed from the first batch of the Ceylon Overseas Service created in 1949 was the [...]
Current moves undermine fostering of Democracy in Sri Lanka
(TC – By Dr. S. Narapalasingam)
The Government of Sri Lanka has been successful in brushing off the alleged accusations of war crimes during the final stage of the war and violations of the basic rights of the survivors after it ended May last [...]
(The Island) The other day a friend of mine, who was on his way to inspect the progress of his building site where he was constructing a row of shops, invited me to join him. As it was a Sunday evening I went with him. while he was briefing [...]
(TC – by Karu Jayasuriya)
We are astounded by the irresponsible and deplorable call by MP Wimal Weerawansa, a Minister in the present government urging the Sri Lankan public to take up violence and commit acts of aggression against the United Nations offices and their staff in Colombo.
Mr. Weerawansa is now a [...]
(The Island – By Shamindra Ferdinando)
The JVP says there is a move to provide luxury housing apartments to Members of Parliament while the vast majority of people are struggling to make ends meet.
JVP parliamentary group leader and National List MPm Anura Kumara Dissanayake says the UPFA is having [...]
(IRIN) – Communities in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province – a region of 1.5 million people still recovering from civil-war violence – fear they have been forgotten as humanitarian agencies shift recovery efforts to the north. “There are no jobs here. I have to support my family with what I earn [...]
(The Island) According to Jehan Perera (JP) writing under the title, ‘Mounting international pressure call for less confrontational approach’ in THE ISLAND of 29 June, it was wrong for our government to have ended the war against-the LTTE terrorism in May 2009. We should have succumbed to [...]
(Daily News) The third Asian Junior Individual Squash Championships 2010 will be held in Colombo, from July 06 to 10, 2010.
Players from 14 countries from the Asian Squash Federation’s member nations are billed to take part in this international event. Among them are Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, [...]
(AS) A long-suffering country finds a bit of good news Sri Lanka, battered by four decades of Tamil separatist violence that ended a year ago, appears finally able to begin to exploit its sizable domestic oil and gas sources and reduce its crippling dependence on imports.
In one of [...]
(Daily News) Born Kimberly Noel Kardashian on October 21, 1980 (1980-10-21) (age 29)inLos Angeles, California, U.S. An American national, she is occupied as American Celebutante, Entrepreneur, actress and model since 2007 and is well known for her reality show ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’, Dancing With the Stars and [...]
The Tiger Vanquished by M R Narayan Swamy
(AT – Reviewed by Sreeram Chaulia ) The unexpected destruction in May 2009 of one of the world’s most fearsome guerrilla movements, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has altered Sri Lanka’s fate completely. Explanations for this separatist rebel group’s [...]
NOTEBOOK OF A NOBODY (The Island – by Shanie)
“What does this sudden uneasiness mean, and this confusion? How grave the faces have become!
Why are the streets and squares rapidly emptying, and why is everyone going home so lost in thought? Because it is night and the barbarians have not come. [...]
(Daily News) WHAT GENES R U WEARING?
What sort of a person are you? What qualities do you own? Did you know that your date of birth would reveal what ‘genes’ you have inherited? You need to check it out.
It’s great fun. Discover the qualities of your mate whose value you have [...]
(Daily News – by Prasad Gunawardane)
To begin with the welcome trend of fast-growing unity among Tamil political parties, it is appropriate to recall the national minded sentiments expressed a quarter century ago by a man from the microscopic minority in this country. He was the much-hailed Communist Party stalwart, Pieter [...]
(IOM) Sri Lanka – The Netherlands has pledged EUR 2 million (LKR 277,820,000) to support two IOM programmes that are helping internally displaced people (IDPs) to return home and reintegrating former LTTE Tamil Tiger combatants into civil society.
The contribution of EUR 1 million to each programme will allow IOM to continue [...]
(National) COLOMBO // Thursday was not a good day for Sri Lanka: the United States said it had accepted a labour organisation’s request to probe workers’ rights issues in the country, and the European Union lent its backing to a UN panel examining the country’s human-rights record.Adding to Colombo’s woes, an [...]
(The Island) Continued from yesterday
At the vanguard of another front of the “coalition of the willing” were the transnational NGOs – especially, the International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Crisis Group. The ‘International Commission of Jurists’ blundered its way through an [...]
(Daily Mirror – by Dr. Harinda Vidanage)
The UN panel of experts, the EU condition GSP plus concessions drew a plethora of responses in Sri Lanka from politicians, policy makers, media personalities, eminent public figures. These international developments have been revisited in many newspaper articles with the arguments focusing on the threat [...]
(Daily News – by Lucian Rajakarunanayake) It was in interesting concurrence that the IMF announced its satisfaction with the state of the Sri Lankan economy almost the same day that the Government presented its budget for 2010.
The statement by the Acting Chair of the IMF Naouki Shinohara that “overall economic conditions in [...]
(The Island) An Interview with Douglas Devananda
In this interview, C.A.Chandraprema talks to Minister Douglas Devananda about several recent developments in Tamil politics including EPDP moves to talk to the TNA, and moves by the government to talk to the TNA and to rope in KP, the ex-LTTE financial [...]
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