China Moves Northward and India Moves Southward in Sri Lanka
The geopolitical contest between India and China in Sri Lanka is no secret, but it has never been as blatant…
Sri Lanka ranked among top five fastest growing tourism markets
Sri Lanka has been ranked as the fourth fastest growing tourism market in the world by GlobalData, a London based…
North confronting a different type of war.
Nine years after the end of Sri Lanka’s long drawn conflict between Government forces and the LTTE, the Northern Province…
White elephants?
MYTH 1: Chinese lending is commercial. FACT: Since 2012 most Chinese lending is concessionary. In the last five years Sri…
Running into chaos
Last Monday, 23 July 2018, Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei, Military, Naval & Air Attaché of Embassy of China in Sri…
Sri Lanka committed to religious freedom
Representing Sri Lanka at the Conference to Advance Religious Freedom, Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Prasad Kariyawasam remarked…
Sri Lanka a key component of maritime silk road
China says Sri Lanka is a key component of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”, with the Hambantota Port and…
Northern Provincial Council in deadlock
The tug of war between the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C.V. Wigneswaran and Governor Reginald Cooray, which continued…
India’s bid to acquire the “World’s Emptiest Airport”
Over the past year, as India kept making a bid to acquire the Mattala airport in South Sri Lanka, which…
Reform has ‘ground to a halt’ with torture used freely – UN
Sri Lanka’s progress towards reform has “virtually ground to a halt” and brutal torture is used with impunity, the UN…