Tuesday, 18th November 2014 By Charles Haviland BBC News Kottarappu Chattu Kuttan was a Colombo institution A doorman who worked for 72 years at the most famous hotel in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, has di ...
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Sri Lanka Embassy donates books on Buddhism to the University of Warsaw
Research on Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy has created great interest among non-Buddhist western scholars. On the request of the graduate and undergraduate students following Anthropology, Sociology and ...
Sri Lanka to support bank for South Asian region
Friday, 14th November 2014 COLOMBO, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka will support establishing a bank among South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to help finance infrastructure developme ...
Sri Lanka and Thailand launch diamond jubilee celebrations of diplomatic relations
The celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and Thailand is being launched today, (20 November 2014). The two countries established formal diplomatic relations on 20 November 1955. Sri Lanka and Thailand have a long history of close religious, cultural and trade links fostered over several centuries.
Buddhism has played a pivotal and catalytic role over several hundred years in binding the two countries together, and relations have been further consolidated since the establishment of diplomatic relations. At present, the two countries enjoy strong and warm relations in a variety of spheres ranging from political and economic to religious and cultural, people-to-people contacts, as well as mutually beneficial cooperation in the regional and international fora.
Sethusamudhram canal works – Not a befitting project
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Solheim at it again, says deputy minister
Monday, 17th November 2014 By Chamikara Weerasinghe Disregarding the high standards and ethics that are expected to be followed by a peace facilitator, the former peace facilitator during the war between the Sri Lan ...
ERIK ENRICHED TIGERS
Monday, 17th November 2014 By Dharmasiri Abeyratne and Dhanushka Godakumbura Erik Solheim, the Norwegian Minister and former chief negotiator between the then government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, who advised the Sri L ...
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