By Udaya Gammanpila
The ships which transported goods from Eastern to Western States of the USA had to sail around Argentina spending a lot of time and money. Hence, the USA was badly in need of constructing a canal linking …

and one of it’s kind

The marketing phrase that independence for Sri Lanka had been won without shedding a drop of blood is a fallacy. People over the years, since the advent of foreigners to our shores from around 1505 …

(Courtesy of Daily News)

All three LTTE dissident factions have started to lobby the next UNHRC session to be held in Geneva in March 2013. They are Tamil Eelam Peoples Assembly led by Perinpanayagam Sivaparan alias Nediyawan in Norway, the …

By Gamini Gunawardane

(Courtesy of The Islans)

Thinking with the question of why it was proposed to our government and acceded to by us, to do away with the Prevention of Terrorism Act? Curiously, it is proposed by some of …

By Daya Gamage 

(Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

Listen to this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjofV4vxU8

U.S. Permanent Representative for the United Nations Samantha Power, Obama administration’s top foreign policy advocate is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka November 21-23. This is her second visit, the …

By Neville Ladduwahetty

Evidence of derogation of Human Rights prevails in most countries because of threats from terrorism. For instance, the introduction of the Patriot Act of the US following the 2001 terrorist attack in New York curtails many civil …

(Source: www.theguardian.com)

The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the 21st century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the west that the fall of communism opened up. Given …

by N. Sathiya Moorthy

(Courtesy of The Sunday Leader)

Displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka

It’s anybody’s guess, why Eric Solheim, the controversial Norwegian peace envoy, should talk about the last days/weeks of the ‘ethnic war’, as he had not done …

With a transfer of power in Colombo, the Obama administration looks to put Sri Lanka in the win column for U.S. democracy promotion efforts. U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, recently spoke at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit …