Dissanayake, Australia
It is reported that Sri Lanka Army has recovered Rs. 250 million worth of gold and Rs. 6.4 million worth of cash in the final battle zone.
The government is expecting the courts to decide the fate of these terrorist funds. We can certainly take a lesson from the US government in this situation [...]

Media Release Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC  USA
Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya with Ambassador Robert Blake, new Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia
 Ambassador Robert Blake, new Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia told at the hearing of the Congressional Subcommittee on South Asia, today that Sri Lanka [...]

Bandula Kothalawala London N7
On 23 June 2009, President Sarkozy of France, in his latest cabinet reshuffle, dumped his Secretary of State for Human Rights.
This would have gone unnoticed among the numerous other changes made to various portfolios had it not been for the fact that France has long made human rights her trademark. She [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
A high powered visiting Sri Lankan government delegation reiterated to India Colombo’s determination to resettle the internally displaced persons now living in the Welfare Centers run by the government within six months.
The Sri Lanka government statements contradicted some Western press reports, which said that the displaced Tamils would not be resettled until [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Wall Street Journal newspaper said since the Sri Lankan Army killed the top leadership of the Tamil Tigers i the stock market has soared and foreign funds have flocked to government securities and about $100 million in Sri Lankan government bonds were purchased , quoting Sri Lanka’s Central Bank sources.
The report [...]

Courtesy Irish Times
I n the aftermath of war, a lost generation of Sri Lanka’s youth is seeking rehabilitation, writes TOM FARRELL in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka
RANJENDRAN HAS the acne and somewhat awkward gait of many a 17-year-old schoolboy. He has already completed is O-Levels and is studying for his A-Level examinations, the local equivalent of the Leaving [...]

by Hela Puwath
There is a saying in the West, “everything has a price”.  The $4 billion dangled by the western co-chairs was enough of a deal maker for then prime minister Ranil Wickremasinghe and his right-wing cabinet, to agree to sell our mother.  
Similarly, Ronald Regan’s promise to come to the aid of J R [...]

Newspaper Article
In Sri Lanka, most of the professionals groups have established their own professional Institutes to uphold and improve their own professions. Environmental professional render an important service in all sectors including State, Private, NGO and University. However, the lack of such a professional body is a major drawback in the environmental profession in [...]

Press Note
The Institute of Environmental Professionals Sri Lanka (IEPSL) was set up in 2006, with the aim of upholding and improving the standard of environmental professionals in Sri Lanka. Environmental protection and management is an integral and necessary component of the development process and environmental professionals render an important service in this regard. The [...]

By Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam

Sri Lanka enjoys freedom today because of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa! The Nation has been saved by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa!
Sri Lanka’s territorial integrity and sovereignty was protected by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa!
We live with human dignity today, because of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa!
The Greatest Defence Secretary in Sri Lanka – Gotabhaya!
The Only Defence Secretary in the World who eradicated Terrorism-Gotabhaya!
Wars might [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
An excerpt from the Dialogue…………
Lets us be more specific………Generalising “Tamils per se” is incorrect and should be stopped. Should be more directed at LTTE & VP and the potential agitators who are actually suicide cadres led by the Tamil Diaspora.
SLDF had to take well planned, incredibly well commanded military action and led by [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
First may I congratulate LankaWeb for creating an interactive forum where the readers may respond with their opinion and comment on the published articles.
Will the Real Sri Lankan Tamils Stand-up and be Counted?   Prof. Hudson McLean
The above article has indeed created a lively dialogue.
Which brings to the subject of the age old question, [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Britain’s ruling Labour Party has lost exactly half of the voters who voted for it at the last general elections, the country’s highest circulated freesheet , the Metro announced bringing ominous signs to any hope of the party coming back to power in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Publishing an exclusive Metro/Harris poll results [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
 The World Bank announced , June 24 , it has approved US $ 24 million IDA credit to help it provide health service delivery program with particular emphasis on the special health needs in the country’s war ravaged North and East due to the recent war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Times of India newspaper featured many young Tamil youngsters , who were taken , to be child soldiers “screaming and kicking” against their will both during the time when the recruiters were untouched during a Norway brokered ceasefire treaty in Sri Lanka and during the final days of the Liberation Tigers of [...]

By Janaka Alahapperuma from London
Several Sri Lankans were attacked by Tamil Tiger mobs in London soon after the ICC Twenty20 Final cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan on 21st (Sunday) June 2009. These despicable incidents were happened near the main gate (Taverns Stand entrance) of the Lord’s Cricket ground despite the police presence.
So [...]

Ajit Randeniya
It is obvious that the Americans are attempting to exploit the promised IMF loan to Sri Lanka to achieve their own strategic and political ends. As has been suggested by the Central Bank Governor Ajith Cabraal, Sri Lanka should not kneel down before the US for assistance on loan approval: after all, US is [...]

BCWA News
A copy of the Dhammapada has been added to the Despatch Box on the central table in front of the Prime Minister. The president of the Federation of the Australian Buddhist Councils (FABC) Mr Brian Ashen is seen here handing a copy of the Dhammapada to Mr Harry Jenkins MP, Speaker of the [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
Who are the King Pins of the Tamil Diaspora who support the New Leadership of LTTE?
Its time that all Tamils who supported or were forced to support the Tamil Diaspora during the past, to Name & Shame the Collectors.
As expressed by the brave Tamil persons, who are now emerging out of the dangers [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
Devolution, Discrimination be damned!
The Terrorist LTTE is no more. However the Real Troublemakers who are sitting in their high chairs in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia are still going on pumping their bellows.
Its about time, the Tamils who wish to continue being Sri Lankans stand up and tell their Diaspora, “Either Put-up or Shut-up”. [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Sunday Leader newspaper , which has been facing a legal battle with the country’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa , accused of defaming him , faced a serious crisis when the lawyers appearing for the newspaper withdrew from the case declaring that they did not doubt the defence secretary’s honesty and integrity.
There had [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Reminding about enemies that had to be fought against vigorously in the past thousands of year in Sri Lanka, Venerable Dharmasiri Thero of the Washington Buddhist Vihara said one of the land mark victories was that of Dutugemunu to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation and the recent military victory [...]

Nava Thakuria
The vultures in the Indian sky are missing and the declination is too fast. The scientist and environmentalists apprehend that after Pakistan and Nepal the vulture population of India has been declined by more than 97% in the last few years.
There were about 40 million vultures in early Eighties in India , but a [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
This question has but a single simple answer……..NO!
Devolution will create Domination in the most cruelest and wicked format. Devolution will create the Ghetto syndrome.
Lets face the facts.  Sinhala, whether one likes it or not, is the majority in Sri Lanka.  Just like in Great Britain, the English are in majority compared to Scots, [...]

By Janaka Alahapperuma
The London Metropolitan Police had to force the organizers to proceed and keep up with the schedule in the latest march, organized by British Tamil Forum (BTF) with the help of Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) on Saturday 20th June in London. The organizers asked permission from the Met Police for 100, 000 participants, [...]

By Dr Raju Selva
I am a Tamil living outside Sri Lanka hence by mere definition unfortunately I belong to Tamil Diaspora which I am ashamed of myself of being one of them and I am making this appeal again to the misled pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora to lay down the ideology “Eelam”.
I have been very [...]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement- writing from U.S.A. 15.6.2009.

 
 “Manga hondata tibenam -Yanta parath penenam
 Kima bediwala yanne -Man mulawu ekaku se” -An old Sinhala dictum
 
If we devolve political power to the provinces under the 13th Amendment  that will definitely mark the first step in the division of this Island nation in to a [...]

Dilrook Kannangara
 Kumar Sangakkara has shown that he is a brilliant captain, way ahead of his predecessor. His bowling changes can be called aggressive; his batting, responsible and his presence awesome. However, a captain needs the performance of his team to be the fullest. Sri Lanka remained unbeaten as they entered the Finals at Lord’s. We [...]

Media Release Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Washington DC
WASHINGTON — One month after the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lankan Military, Sri Lankan expatriates in the greater Washington D.C. area gathered Saturday to pay tribute to the War Heroes of the Sri Lankan forces [...]

By Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam
THE NATION’S LEADER, PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA WILL BE THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE EVEN AT THE NEXT ELECTION. THE ERADICATION OF THE LTTE HAS MADE HIM POPULAR NOT ONLY IN SRI LANKA BUT ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I read with much interest the Press Release published in the Government Official Information News Portal, [...]