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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor “The Korean Wave did not just happen. It was engineered over decades,” said Miyon Lee, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Sri Lanka, this morning in
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Brazil is preparing to establish its first-ever university dedicated exclusively to Indigenous peoples after the Senate approved legislation creating the Federal University of Native Peoples of Brazil, known as Unind. The bill,
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A government move to assign some Clean Sri Lanka representatives to Divisional Secretariats countrywide as coordinators has run into stiff resistance. The Sri Lanka Association of Divisional Secretaries and Assistant Divisional Secretaries (SLADA) has
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the
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Pakistan Navy provided humanitarian assistance to the crew of MV Gautam. The Indian offshore tug and supply vessel became stranded in the Arabian Sea. The ship sailed from Oman toward India, as
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Well, that didn’t last long. President Trump unveiled “Project Freedom,” an initiative to escort ships and restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, on Sunday. By Tuesday evening, he had unceremoniously suspended
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