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 as was seen in developments...
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 digital analysis company, the Sri...
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 is confronting a very different...
White elephants?
MYTH 1: Chinese lending is commercial. FACT: Since 2012 most Chinese lending is concessionary. In the last five years Sri Lanka’s loans from China EXIM...
Running into chaos
Last Monday, 23 July 2018, Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei, Military, Naval & Air Attaché of Embassy of China in Sri Lanka, hosted a reception at...
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 that Sri Lanka remains committed...
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 Colombo Port City as the...
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 unabated for quite some, reached...
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 is universally derided as the...
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 concludes in a scathing report...
India has much to gain from Sri Lanka
India and Sri Lanka have enjoyed time-tested and friendly ties since the establishment of diplomatic relations 70 years ago. India’s historical and extensive relations with ...
Sri Lanka India’s special, trusted partner
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described Sri Lanka as India’s special and trusted friend in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region while assuring...
China has invested heavily because of the country’s location
Dr. Satoru Nagao, a Japanese expert on maritime security who is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC, says that Sri...
For the country to move forward adopt a new Constitution
The Visiting Belgium-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group met with the Leader of the Opposition and the Tamil National Alliance on 19 July at the office...
Ian Paisley Jr suspended from Parliament
Ian Paisley Jr has been suspended from the House of Commons for seven weeks after breaking Westminster rules over luxury trips worth up to £100,000....