Shenali D Waduge An interesting aspect of the recent protests in Sri Lanka was the open participation of some members of the legal fraternity chanting slogans and even protesting against corruptions. People can bewail corruption because they are in no position to take action other than protest, can this be said of lawyers? People who […]

More >

පාඨකයෙක් අමෙරිකානු තානාපතිනි ජූලි චුන්ග් මැතිණිය සෝවියට දේශයේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මිඛායිල් ගොර්බොචොව් ගේ දිවි සැරිය නිම කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිය ට්විටර් ගිණුමේ සටහනක් තබමින් , මිඛායිල් ගොර්බොචොව් යනු කොමියුනිස්ට්වරුන්ට ධනවාදය නම් පාඩම උගන්වා සෝවියට සංගමය උඩු යටිකුරු හරවා නිර්මාපකයාගේ පාරාදීසය බවට පත් කළේය. උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළත් වෙනම රාජ්‍යයක් බවට පත් කර ගැනීමට අවශ්‍යය වන්නේ නම් ශ්‍රී […]

More >

INVESTING Company News News Wire 14h ago Fitch Warns of High Risk Sri Lanka May Default on Local Bonds Ronojoy Mazumdar and Asantha Sirimanne, Bloomberg News A worker with an empty two-wheeled cart makes his way to a wholesale market to find jobs in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Sri Lanka’s new President […]

More >

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry says Sri Lanka ‘needs all partners’ for its economic recovery Ahead of the UN Human Rights Chief’s latest report on Sri Lanka, and a likely resolution at the coming session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government reiterated that it […]

More >

By Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun Sri Lanka is experiencing a humanitarian crisis, including food and energy shortages. It seeks Japan’s help to get it out of China’s debt trap. President Ranil Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean on the brink of economic crisis, expressed his desire to ask Japan for […]

More >

By CHANDRE DHARMAWARDANA Courtesy The Island chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca Although there is much talk of system change”, it is hard to find specifics of the new systems that are to be created. In the early seventies, Mahinda Wijesekera, the father of the present Minister for Power, was a student leader of the Vidyodaya University. As a key […]

More >