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Elephant killings in Sri Lanka anger pop star and animal rights activist Cher

Famed American pop singer Cher took to Twitter over the weekend to react to last week’s report that Sri Lanka was lead...

December 14, 2020 2 min read

Muslim COVID-19 burials: Maldives prez considering President Rajapaksa's request for assistance

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, on a request from his Sri Lankan counterpart Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is looking to...

December 14, 2020 3 min read

Dr Fernandopulle chosen as Chair of the Women’s caucus in Parliament

Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle has been unanimously elected as the Chairperson of the tiny Women Parliamentarians Caucus an...

December 14, 2020 2 min read

People who refuse PCR Tests can be charged - Police spokesman

Sri Lanka’s Police Spokesman is saying that a person who refuses a PCR test can be charged with maliciously spreading ...

December 14, 2020 2 min read
Sri Lanka CPC officials pressured at Human Rights Commission meeting, claims minister

CEB agreed for uninterrupted power supply until February 17.

UK ready to consider financing assurances for Sri Lanka to secure IMF deal

Sri Lanka is cautiously optimistic that the IMF bailout package will come through in the first quarter.

Sri Lanka navy offers new evidence in Avant Garde arms scandal

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's attorney general may have failed to prosecute Avant Garde Maritime Services over the controver...

Our Police Correspondent
October 16, 2015 4 min read

Germany's Friedrich Naumann Foundation resume work in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Germany's Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) said it will return to Sri Lanka from early 2016 ...

October 14, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka PM meets Emperor of Japan

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife Maithree met Japan's Emperor and Empress duri...

October 7, 2015 1 min read

Japan promises visiting Sri Lanka PM infrastructure, maritime aid

TOKYO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged aid to Sri Lanka on Tuesday in a meeting with his co...

October 6, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka state tea promotion agency in social engineering move

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Tea Board, a state agency, is to set up tea shop across Sri Lanka in a social engineering move...

October 6, 2015 4 min read

Sri Lanka ex-president denies hugging Gaddafi

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today denied he had hugged the then Libyan leader Muammar G...

Our Political Correspondent
October 4, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka President chides his own party over reconciliation

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena has sent a message of disapproval to members of his own party who...

Our Political Correspondent
October 3, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka avoided isolation, sanctions by treating own citizens better: President

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has avoided international isolation and economic sanctions by trimming the powers of an authorit...

October 3, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lankan PM to visit Japan for talks with Abe

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will make a five-day official visit to Japan which h...

October 1, 2015 1 min read

Draft UN HR resolution on Sri Lanka - Full Text

ECONOMYNEXT - The full text of the draft resolution on Sri Lanka

September 25, 2015 11 min read
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Statement on Sri Lanka by US Secretary of State John Kerry

ECONOMYNEXT - The statement on Sri Lanka by US Secretary of State John Kerry on the resolution on Sri Lanka at th 30th s...

September 25, 2015 2 min read

India warns Sri Lanka over maritime security concerns

ECONOMYNEXT – India's envoy in Sri Lanka has warned the island to be mindful of her big neighbour’s mariti...

Rohan Gunasekera
September 25, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka escapes 'external" war crimes probe

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Thursday escaped a "hybrid" war crimes investigation involving foreign judges and prosecutors as...

Our Political Correspondent
September 25, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka forms high powered economic committee with coalition bigwigs

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has appointed a ministerial committee on economic management headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wick...

September 24, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka to curb official foreign travel to reduce wasteful spending

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s new government has outlined a series of measures aimed at minimising waste in go...

September 23, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka plans to build 137,000 houses for war victims

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka wants to build 137,000 houses for people in former war torn areas in the North and the East of t...

September 23, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka ministry functions reshuffled

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s new government has reshuffled functions of the newly appointed cabinet of minist...

September 23, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka rejects international war crimes probe

(AFP) - Sri Lanka's prime minister on Tuesday rejected a UN call for international involvement in an investigation into ...

September 22, 2015 2 min read

Confusion as Sri Lanka ministers get subjects

ECONOMYNEXT - President Maithripala Sirisena today announced the subjects he has allocated to ministers, but the distrib...

Our Political Correspondent
September 22, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka faces up to wartime past after damning UN verdict

(AFP) - Six years after the end of its bloody civil war, Sri Lanka this week took historic steps to confront its traumat...

Amal Jayasinghe
September 20, 2015 4 min read
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