Tuesday, 09th September 2014 By P K Balachandran COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has rejected a charge by the incoming UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, that it is intimidating human rights w ...
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Lyca and Lanka ‘unliked’ by Tamil Nadu
Sunday, 07th September 2014 BY SULOCHANA RAMIAH MOHAN In Tamil Nadu, anything that is pro Sri Lankan stirs up the four major student bodies –Maatram MaanavarIlaiyor Iyakkam, Free Tamil Eelam Students Organization, Tam ...
Families Of Missing Persons Still In Limbo
Due to lack of tangible evidence of death Sunday, 07th September 2014 By Camelia Nathaniel Though it’s over five years since the successful conclusion of the war, there are still thousands of those who had disappeared ...
Chinese President to visit Sri Lanka
The President of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Xi Jinping will be undertaking a State visit to Sri Lanka from 16th to 17th September 2014, at the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. It would be r ...
Consequences of external intervention not for Sri Lanka-bilateral discussion between FMs of Sri Lanka and Cuba
The consequences of external intervention in the domestic affairs of countries, and the havoc it has caused resulting in the loss of precious human lives and the governability of nations being placed at risk, are today evident in many parts of the world, and the people of Sri Lanka certainly have no wish to exchange the peace and stability they now enjoy for this state of affairs, Professor G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, remarked in the course of the bilateral discussion he held at the Ministry of External Affairs yesterday (8th September 2014) with Mr. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba.
Lanka-Cuba relations on solid path-Ambassador Dissanayake
Sunday, 07th September 2014 By Nyliam Vázquez García Ambassador Sarath Dissanayake welcomes the dialogue, and has much to say, because Sri Lanka and Cuba just celebrated 55 years of diplomatic relations on July 29 He r ...
‘Golden opportunity to restore and re-create Sri Lankan identity’- Prof. Rohan Gunaratne
Sunday, 07th September 2014 International Terrorism Expert and Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Prof.Rohan Gunaratne in an ...