The Sri Lankan Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden participated at the Second Asian Cultural Festival held on the 8th of March 2015 at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Sweden. This event was organized by the Network of Asia ...
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Ceylon Tea takes pride of place at the Cairo International Fair
The Sri Lanka Embassy in Cairo in association with the Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB) organized a country stall for Ceylon tea at the recent Cairo International Fair. The Sri Lanka Tea Stall has been featured at the F ...
LTTE Female Black Tigers Face Social Hostility
By P K Balachandran COLOMBO:In a startling revelation, the Sri Lankan Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Maj Gen Jagath Wijetilleke said that six to seven per cent of the 12,346 male and female cadre of the Libera ...
In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country
By ROBERT DRAPER MARCH 27, 2015 The man in the khaki vest slurped noisily from his cup, descended briefly into scowling meditation, spat the contents into a sink and then unleashed a torrent of approving descriptors, ...
FOREIGN MINISTER PAYS LAST RESPECTS TO FORMER SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER, LEE KUAN YEW
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, arrived in Singapore today, and proceeded to the Parliament House, accompanied by Mr. Wishwanath Aponsu, Acting High Commissioner in Singapore to pay condolences on behalf of H.E. t ...
President Maithripala Sirisena Undertakes Successful State Visit to the People’s Republic of China
H.E. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka paid a State Visit to the People’s Republic of China from 25 to 27 March 2015 on the invitation of H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China. During the visit, President Sirisena also met with H.E. Li Keqiang, Premier, and H.E. Zhang Dejiang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China. This was President Sirisena’s first visit to China as President undertaken within three months of his election.
State Visit of His Highness the Emir of the State of Qatar to Sri Lanka
His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar arrived in Sri Lanka on a State Visit today, 24th March 2015 at the invitation of President H.E. Maithripala Sirisena.