China and Sri Lanka first became connected through Buddhism and later through the Maritime Silk Road. The friendship between the two peoples has transcended time and continues today. For decades, many residents
They starch their spines with borrowed daylight and call it dignity,tongues varnished, knees rehearsed for velvet floors.Gravitas for hire, they auction grief in clipped syllables,while famine learns their signatures by heart.The microphone
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Northern Ireland’s chief constable, Jon Boutcher, has revealed he is reviewing the security classification of a long-suppressed MI5 file from 1973, raising the prospect that one of the most contentious documents of
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Sri Lanka has embarked on an ambitious effort to address the long-standing housing crisis among families displaced by decades of civil conflict, with the launch of the National Housing Program 2026. President
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Sri Lanka is facing a critical juncture in its electricity sector, with industry bodies raising serious concerns over the Draft National Electricity Policy. In a joint submission, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce,
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Two senior Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have reportedly begun a hunger strike in prison following their arrest over the installation of a Buddha statue in Trincomalee, authorities and sources close to
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China ended 2025 with a historic trade surplus of $1.189 trillion, a figure that places the world’s largest manufacturing nation in a category usually reserved for the output of major economies. The
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The United Nations Human Rights Office has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on Sri Lanka, concluding that conflict-related sexual violence remains endemic, systematically unaddressed, and buried beneath what it describes
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Read Part One of this series The correct title for the proposed bill mentioned in the first part of this article should be “Protection of the State from Terrorism Act – PSTA,”
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A single mistake that was in a Grade 6 English textbook has ignited a huge firestorm in Sri Lanka. What should have been a straightforward quality control issue has instead become a
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Sri Lanka and China are set to finalize an agreement on the Hambantota Sinopec Oil Refinery Project in the first quarter of 2026, officials confirmed following a meeting between Sri Lankan Foreign
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