It’s Time For U.S. Policy Toward Sri Lanka To Be More Symmetrical
Sri Lanka’s economy is growing at about a 7.5% annual clip, with low inflation and a per capita income of US$ 2,923. We are...
GTF and its leadership have gradually lost their way
We are aware that there is some confusion among Tamils regarding British Tamils Forum’s participation in Global Tamil Forum (GTF). By releasing this statement,...
House of Commons debates FCO report on Sri Lanka
We will use our position on the UN Human Rights Council to work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and call for...
Pawns of Peace
By Shamindra Ferdinando. In the wake of the then Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe and LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran agreeing for direct negotiations under Norwegian facilitation...
Ambassador Sison’s Remarks at Nagakovil
Kaalai Vannakam! Honorable Secretary to the Governor of the Northern Province, Mr. Ilangovan; Honorable Divisional Secretary, Mr. N. Linganathan; Honorable Secretary of Fisheries for...
Secretary Weeratunga briefs Geneva diplomats on progress in national reconciliation
Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga who briefed Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on Tuesday (21st...
US Government gives $1.5 Million USD Grant to revive the fishery community in Jaffna.
The United States Embassy in Colombo, through its development arm, the U.S. Agency for International Development, announced a new program to revive the fishery...
International legal experts reiterate need for accountability
Panelists at a discussion hosted by the American Society of International Law and American University Washington College of Law UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation...
TN Fishermen Have No Right to Katchatheevu
The Centre today informed the Madras High Court that the sovereignty of Sri Lanka over the islet of Katchatheevu in the Palk...
Maldives rejects military pact with US
The Maldives has decided not to take part in a proposed military cooperation pact with the United States over fears that it could upset...
Pope Francis to visit Philippines and Sri Lanka next year
Pope Francis may go to South Korea in August, 20 years after Pope John Paul II last visited the Korean peninsula. The Vatican spokesman,...
CEB says power cuts in the offing
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) said there would be no planned power cuts but intermittent power outages if the generated capacity does not...
Ships on patrol duty had not come across any incidents of Indian fishermen being fired upon
The Centre has asserted in the Madras High Court Bench here that Sri Lankan Navy did not kill even a single Indian fishermen in Indian waters...
Penang deputy chief minister will fight for Sri Lankan Tamils
Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy will take his fight for Sri Lankan Tamils to Britain at the end of this month with...
HRW says Sri Lanka made little progress on human rights in 2013
Sri Lanka The Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa made little progress in 2013 in addressing accountability for serious human rights abuses committed...