Outraged commentators warned Wednesday that revelations the CIA and Germany’s intelligence service had for decades used a Swiss encryption company for spying had seriously damaged Switzerland’s cherished reputation for neutrality.
Critics voiced particular concern that Bern may have been at …
The Jaffna police have arrested four Jaffna undergraduates following a spate of complaints they forced newcomers to perform in ‘sex videos.’
The police are looking for other students.
The police stepped up investigations after the Higher Education Ministry brought the …
Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist political party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has urged the visiting EU delegation to pressure President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government to fully implement the accountability resolution co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government in Oct. 2015.
The resolution called for hybrid …
The President, Dasarath Jayasuriya of Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc. Australia has raised the concern of the so called MCC agreement.
In the aftermath of the tragic Easter Sunday bombings, …
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed the UN that necessary investigations would be conducted to find out the fate of those who had disappeared during the island’s civil conflict as most of the families had attested that those disappeared had been …
(Courtesy of The Island)
The Federation of National Organizations (FNO) yesterday, January 23, urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government to clarify its stand vis-a-vis controversial resolution 30/1 co-sponsored by the previous administration at the Geneva based Human Rights …
(Courtesy of Lanka News Web)
C.A. Chandraprema has been appointed as the new Ambassador of Switzerland. He is a veteran journalist, political commentator and author.
The Ambassador of Switzerland is an internationally important position, and he plays an important role …
Russian, Chinese Foreign Ministers due in Sri Lanka next week. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives in Colombo on Monday morning on a brief officla visit while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives on Tuesday morning, according to the announcements …
Does the Sri Lankan Constitution allow a Government elected for a term of office and given guardianship of the land and the interests of the people to appoint a foreign country to establish a company to be an agent for …
In Lord Naseby’s concluding remarks on Sri Lanka in the Queen’s Speech debate in House of Lords (7/1/20), he compares Gotabaya Rajapaksa with Boris Johnson – “We’ve now got two new leaders, one here in the UK with the drive, …