PRESIDENT GR ASKS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE TO STRENGTHEN SECURITY AND STABILITY – WIJEDASA PRESENTS BILL
Wijedasa Rajapaksa was the man in the news late this week. He presented a private members bill seeking to make…
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Sri Lanka will not re-negotiate commercial terms of Hambantota deal, only security: President
Sri Lanka is not looking to change commercial terms in an agreement with China over a port in Hambantota, but…
ACT CAREFULLY OR DROWN: 3 LESSONS FROM NEW ORLEANS FOR SRI LANKA
By Asmita Tiwari, Suranga Kahandawa, Masatsugu Takamatsu & Keiko Sakoda Our hearts sank as we looked at the Hurricane Katrina-affected…
Intricacies of Immunity
Diplomatic Immunity and why it exists BY Miquelaa Fernando The recent controversy surrounding the Swiss embassy staffer here in Sri…
WHY CHINA IS WRONG OVER HONG KONG?
By Yasuhiro Matsuda Beijing Will Feel Secure Only When Hong Kong’s Freedoms Are Completely Crushed Hong Kong is also going…
THE EXPERIENCE OF A SOLAR ECLIPSE
By Victor Cherubim A Total Solar Eclipse occurs when the new Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth and…
5 Ways To ‘Give Back’ This Christmas
The end of 2019 is near, and for many of us, that marks one of the most important days of…
FROM KGB TO KREMLIN: TWENTY YEARS’ SAGA OF PUTIN
By Punsara Amarasinghe When the red flag was removed from the top of red square followed by Gorbochove’s statement that…
Sri Lanka seeks to regain economic prominence in Egypt
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has called for the regaining of the country’s economic prominence in Egypt to its…
AN UNSTABLE NEPAL
by Ashok Mehta Three events witnessed by me recently have come to dominate the political landscape in Nepal: A new…