The irony is that China saw the excessive concentration of people in the rural areas as a development problem and initiated ...

The strong and authoritative State prior to Independence had sufficient foreign exchange from the growth of export ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? These loss-making entities are a huge drain on government coffers. It’s time to think about privatization in some cases. Sri Lanka is in an ...

The uncomfortable truth about landslide risk Resettlement may be unavoidable as an emergency response to save lives, but it ...

Staff at Media Empowerment for a Democratic Sri Lanka never expected their small initiative to become the target of the kind of fake news it had actively worked to fight against. Protesters gather ...

Water is crucial to Sri Lanka’s growth story, as most of the major economic sectors rely heavily on water resources. Although Sri Lanka has increased and improved access to piped water for urban and ...

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Chennai today, both United States and Indian officials will be eager to emphasize the robust commercial and people-to-people ties that increasingly bind ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 response should prioritize the introduction of special mechanisms to address the needs of marginalized communities, women and ...

New Delhi: New Delhi recognised the barren and uninhabited island of Katchatheevu as Sri Lankan territory in 1974 and Colombo later recognised the resource-rich, deep-sea fishing grounds of Wadge Bank ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Human Rights Law Chambers welcome the landmark decision delivered by the ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? Workers pick tea leaves in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. Credit: Flickr/Antony Stanley Only 10 countries in the world offer full legal protections ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sri Lanka faces an uphill task to clean up countless plastic pellets that have washed up on its beaches from a cargo ship that caught fire off the ...