China’s President Xi Jinping will this year become the first Chinese head of state to visit Sri Lanka in three decades, underlining Beijing’s renewed push to deepen its strategic and economic presence in the neighbourhood and in the Indian Ocean.…

H. L. D. Mahindapala

By H.L.D. Mahindapala Reprint |  

MELBOURNE, Jun 30 2014 (IPS) – The events unraveling in the Middle East have proved that the vaunted “Arab Spring” has turned into a searing summer of wildfires exploding unpredictably in diverse Islamic fronts without …

By Camelia Nathaniel

(Courtesy of Sunday Leader)

CTC’s National Spokesperson David Poopalapillai receiving Prabhakaran’s biography, a guide to the revival of terrorism

Canadian law enforcement authorities and intelligence services are concerned about the LTTE’s penetration of their political establishment. A …

The patriotic Sri Lankan global forum; World Alliance for Peace in Sri Lanka (WAPS) has strongly condemned the undermining of Sri Lankan security forces, in particular the intelligent wing of the army who played a vital role in the war …

By Malinda Seneviratne 

A temple is a temple is a temple.  There are grand ones and humble ones, rich and poor, revered ones and just-visited ones, temples where succor is sought due to reputation of delivery and temples which are …

Shenali D Waduge

The Chairman

Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka

Re. Buddhism Bashing in Newspapers in Sri Lanka  

I am writing to draw the attention of the Press Complaints Commission in the light of its own declared Code of …

The Sri Lankan military has announced that they have received information that certain politicians are attempting to divulge names of intelligence units and pin blame on them for the Aluthgama debacle in an obvious effort to create distrust and bring …