By Janaka Perera
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Vietnam Dr. Ivan Amarasinghe will be a special guest invited by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Council at the ceremony on Saturday July 12 – National Martyrs Day – to commemorate the sacrifice of …
By DINOO KELLEGHAN
IT is a crying shame that a country that has dragged itself up by the bootstraps from twin ruthless Marxist and ethnic insurgencies that devastated its economy and killed almost 200,000 people during the past 45 years …
Lieutenant General Angus Campbell addresses a senate committee hearing into Manus Island.
Lieutenant General Angus Campbell told a Senate committee today of one asylum-seeker who wanted to go to New Zealand who was told he’d reached Australia, after their boat
…Nalin de Silva
(Courtesy of Daily News)
It is difficult to convince the Western educated people in general that knowledge is relative and not absolute, and further that knowledge is relative to the five senses, mind and the culture. Even …
Rakesh Krishnan Simha – Courtesy tehelka.com
LABOR’S last foreign minister, Bob Carr, has ridiculed refugee advocates’ “urban mythology” about endemic persecution of Tamils in Sri Lanka, saying the previous government “couldn’t find a single case” of returned asylum-seekers being abused by authorities.
Mr Carr, who retired …
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremonially commissioned the two patrol boats that were gifted by the Australian government to Sri Lanka to aid in combating people smuggling.The two patrol boats named “Mihikatha” and “Rathnadeepa” were gifted as a gesture of
…I COULDN’T help reading over and over The Australian’s editorial of July 7 that said: “Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser doesn’t help his standing by likening the return of Tamils to Sri Lanka to handing over Jewish refugees to …
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj
The Malaysian Police in a sweeping counter terrorist operation launched simultaneously on Thursday July 3rd 2014 arrested four persons of Sri Lankan origin suspected of terrorist activity with alleged links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) and …
The ministry said in a statement that US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Tom Malinowski is not welcome in Bahrain.
It said he intervened in the country’s domestic affairs by holding meetings with some groups …