Sri Lanka’s new Chinese Ambassador, Wei Huaxiang, met VIII Executive President Ranil Wickremesinghe at his political office on Flower Road in Colombo, in an engagement between China’s new diplomatic representative and the
More than four years after the MV X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank off Sri Lanka’s western coast, the country is still struggling to turn a historic court ruling into tangible compensation.
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Sri Lanka’s long-term coal supply agreement with Trident Chemphar Ltd. will remain in force after the third shipment of coal reportedly cleared required quality standards, easing immediate concerns over supply disruptions, according
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The United States has accused China of secretly carrying out at least one yield-producing nuclear test in recent years, a claim that, if substantiated, would mark a dramatic breach of Beijing’s long-stated
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Senior Buddhist monk Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thera has announced plans to launch a large-scale protest campaign involving around 800 monks in response to what he described as statements and insults made by
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Russian schoolchildren are being taught that Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, behaved like a dangerous radical whose actions mirror those of criminals and terrorists, according to a
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President Donald Trump has demanded that two of the United States’ most prominent transport hubs be renamed in his honor before he agrees to release $16 billion in frozen federal funding for
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Chinese President Xi Jinping pressed President Donald Trump to curb US arms sales to Taiwan during a phone call this week, underscoring the island’s central role in strained US-China relations and highlighting
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The United States and India have unveiled a far-reaching framework for an Interim Trade Agreement that both sides describe as a historic milestone, one that could recalibrate global trade flows and anchor
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Sri Lanka is taking steps to seek compensation from countries that once occupied the island for antiquities looted and for the lives and property lost during the colonial period, Foreign Affairs Minister
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Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe has said the country’s key economic objective is to maintain inflation without allowing it to rise above 5 percent, as the island nation seeks
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An estimated one in seven people may be living with a mental illness, according to World Health Organization assessments, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Dr. Dhammika Alahapperuma said yesterday
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President Xi Jinping’s relentless purge of China’s military and defence-industrial elite has taken a new and revealing turn, deepening doubts about whether the People’s Liberation Army is truly ready to match the
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More than 3,000 government schools across Sri Lanka are functioning with fewer than 10 teachers, revealing a growing structural strain on the country’s education system, according to the Department of Census and
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Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama has issued a warrant for the arrest and production of former Sri Lanka Cricket Chief Financial Officer Piyal Nandana Dissanayake, who is accused of criminal misappropriation
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There are serious errors in recent public statements made by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna General Secretary Tilvin Silva regarding Sri Lanka’s coal crisis, according to Frontline Socialist Party Education Secretary Pubudu Jayagoda. Speaking
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