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  • Trump nominates new Ambassador to Sri Lanka
    US President Donald Trump has nominated Alaina B. Teplitz, the current US Ambassador to Nepal, for the position of Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.If confirmed by...
  • National policy on project evaluation
    The government will soon bring in a national policy on ‘evaluation’.The Chair of Parliamentary Forum on Development Evaluation, UNP MP Ananda Kumarasiri whose Forum had been...
  • Johann, second Sri Lankan to summit Everest
     Johann Peries became the second Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest on Tuesday. Peries reached the almost 8,850-meter peak at 5:50 a.m. Nepal time, according to a...
  • Director General of Government Information Sudarshana Gunawardhana
    Rekindling the Government Film Unit
    Beginning on June 3, Sri Lankan state television, along with the Government Film Unit (GFU), will launch a series of documentaries on issues of human rights and democracy in...
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  • ‘Broadening Colombo Plan’s reach, a priority’
    In a press briefing on Tuesday, newly-appointed Colombo Plan Secretary General Phan Kieu Thu addressed the public for the first time and laid out her agenda for the next four years.“The Colombo Plan...
  • IMF praises fuel pricing formula
    The International Monetary Fund supports Sri Lanka’s new automatic fuel pricing formula, IMF Spokesperson Gerry Rice said in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.“We think the automatic fuel pricing...
  • Wildlife experts decry human-wildlife ‘conflict’
    The media and public should refrain from calling altercations between people and wild animals a “conflict,” wildlife experts said at a workshop on Thursday.“There needs to be a shift in the way...
  • Corbyn promises Labour support for reconciliation in Lanka
    Speaking to a group of Tamils for Labour in London on Wednesday, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday promised that a variety of reconciliation mechanisms for Sri Lanka would be...
  • ‘GMOA strike misses the point’
    A senior government adviser said the State doctors’ strike opposing the Sri Lanka’s free trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore was misguided.“I think they’re just plain wrong about the economics,”...
  • Harvard economist: GMOA strike misses the point
     A senior government advisor said the state doctors’ strike opposing Sri Lanka’s free trade agreement with Singapore was misguided.“I think they’re just plain wrong about the economics,” said...
  • Sri Lankan and Palestinian diplomats criticise US embassy’s move to Jerusalem
    As the United States moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem yesterday, high-level diplomats in Sri Lanka spoke out condemning the decision.“The new Nakba that we have today is the shifting of the...
  • Port City to create 83,000 jobs for Lankans
    A high-level Chinese diplomat said on Thursday that the Colombo Port City was one of the most important projects in China’s One Belt, One Road development scheme.The Port City is “a witness to the...
  • Public officials must disclose information - RTI Chairman
    The new Right to Information Act has had a strong first year, but public authorities need to shed their culture of secrecy, RTI Commission Chairman Mahinda Gammanpila said Tuesday.He was speaking at...
  • Castle Hill Street, Kandy, in 1915.
    lessons from a violent past
    The recent mob attacks against Muslim families and property in Kandy is another sad chapter in Sri Lanka’s history of ethnic violence.Now, many are re-examining the past, looking for reasons for why...
  • Singapore FTA will create jobs - Malik
    Contrary to reports that the new Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would disproportionately benefit Singapore, Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik...
  • Minister defends BOI in wake of bribery arrests
    Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama said he did not believe the recent arrests of senior government officials for soliciting bribes would affect foreign...