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  • Post-war role for Lanka: A Japanese perspective

    Post-war role for Lanka: A Japanese perspective

    By Shamindra Ferdinando

    America’s longstanding strategic partner, Japan, is working overtime to induce Sri Lanka to their camp.

    Japan and Sri Lanka reached an agreement, on ‘Comprehensive Partnership’, in Oct 2015, within months after the change of the Rajapaksa government …


  • A rudderless bark

    A rudderless bark

    The country has been moving from crisis to crisis like a rudderless bark with government leaders being all at sea. People have had to contend with a double whammy. Close on the heels of the Meethotamulla garbage disaster, which snuffed …






  • FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    By A Patabendige

    Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera (FM Sam) has a reputation for launching surprise attacks as any Biswal could vouch for. He has done so again when with sanctimonious concern for the Army, he launched a desperate, much convoluted


  • FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    By A Patabendige

    (By Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

     

    Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera (FM Sam) has a reputation for launching surprise attacks as any Biswal could vouch for. He has done so again when with sanctimonious concern for the Army, …


  • Watching Syria, seeing Sri Lanka

    Watching Syria, seeing Sri Lanka

    (Courtesy of The Island)

     

    By Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka

     

     It was not easy to watch the proceedings on Friday April 7that the UN Security Council’s emergency ‘open session’ on Syria without thinking of Sri Lanka, although the