Sri Lanka is in talks with two Chinese companies about investing up to US$3 billion (S$4 billion) to build a new refinery at its Chinese-controlled port, a top government official has said. Sri Lanka wants to build a new refinery in its southern Hambantota port, …
It is only with a great degree of caution and circumspection that the interim report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka can be welcomed. The panel, chaired by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, has done creditably by producing a forward-looking proposal …
The Interim Report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly which was submitted on Thursday, suggested stringent constitutional provisions to stem separatism. This, despite the fact that Sri Lanka had crushed a long standing armed separatist movement with overwhelming military might eight years ago. …
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, in his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, asked the international community to support Sri Lanka’s “slow but steady progress’ towards post-war ethnic reconciliation as well as economic progress and decried ‘haste’ in the matter. …
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan yesterday assured that constitutional making process would be done within the firm framework of a united, undivided and indivisible Sri Lanka. “This is the framework within which the Constitution will be evolved and which all of us will …
A high-ranking U.S. diplomat has lauded Sri Lanka’s efforts for national reconciliation and development and the current government’s friendly foreign policy during a meeting with the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. The U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Ambassador Thomas Shannon met Thursday with …
By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka It is old news that those who regard themselves as Sinhala nationalists always …
The Sri Lankan parliament on Wednesday passed the Provincial Councils Elections (Amendment) Bill to give 25% reservation for women in the Provincial Councils in the country, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, M.A.Sumanthiran said. Currently, women’s representation in the nine provincial councils is only 4.1%, although …
Although war is over in Sri Lanka, many still face discrimination and hate and much need to be done for peace building and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, the United Nations Resident Coordinator Ms. Una McCauley says. In a message to mark the International Day of …
Tamils should not be obsessed with words such as federalism, the TNA leader and leader of the Opposition, R. Sampanthan, has said, adding that a political solution may or may not come. At a meeting of Tamil newspaper editors held at his working residence, the …