Wednesday, 4th June 2014 By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law It is encouraging to note that BIMSTEC has broadened its scope to many other areas of collaboration. When the entire world ...
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Draft agreement for SL housemaids approved
Wednesday, 4th June 2014 The Shoura Council, Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia, approved a draft agreement between the Saudi Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Foreign Employment in the Republic of Sri Lanka ...
Beyond Modi touch: Is there more to India’s Sri Lanka policy?
31st May 2014 Spotlight By N. Sathiya Moorthy Independent of expectations to the contrary from various stakeholders to the ‘ethnic issue’ in neighbouring Sri Lanka, the personal touch of India’s new Prime Minister Naren ...
Malaysia Provides Assistance To Thwart Terrorism
Tuesday, 3rd June 2014 By supun dias The arrest of three LTTE operatives in Malaysia recently has shed light on the overseas activities of the defeated terrorist group to resuscitate itself and the assistance provided b ...
Recent capture of three LTTE figures
Lankan Defence Officials elated Tuesday, 3rd June 2014 By D.B.S. Jeyaraj It was in April this year that this column exclusively reported for the “Daily Mirror” about how Subramaniam Kapilan alias Nanthagopan had been de ...
Government does not encourage sending Sri Lankan women as housemaids – Govt. makes vocational skills compulsory for migrant workers
Tuesday, 3rd June 2014 The government has reduced sending unskilled migrant workers to controversial sectors of employment in foreign countries, Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera said. Add ...
SL will help enhance connectivity through Asian Silk Road -Senior Minister Amunugama
Tuesday, 3rd June 2014 We are proud of Asia’s rich and multi-faceted heritage encompassing all parts of the continent, and stretching back many centuries to the time of the Silk Road and beyond. Asia possesses enormou ...