Shenali D Waduge Let’s stop for a minute and take a step back before imagining how Sri Lanka would be under the stewardship of Ranil Wickremasinghe and just ask ourselves whether Ranil Wickremasinghe actually wants to lead Sri Lanka or does he simply enjoy the fanfare associated with bringing him to power? The question is […]

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Lankaweb Weekly Editorial October 29th. 2014  While most contestants of such competition dream of winning a Presidency during their lifetime they do so with an unblemished track record and the backing of the majority vote!! This seems hardly likely in the case of the UNP’s Ranil Wickremasinghe as he has disentitled himself to the privilege on […]

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Shenali D Waduge With just days for the UNHRC Panel to conclude accepting submissions it has emerged that the UNHRC has been cheating the system by providing UNHRC war crimes forms to only one party and that too clandestinely with links to LTTE-TNA. The shocking discovery immediately takes us back to sample formats appearing on […]

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Eric Kraus Courtesy Russia Insider Carnegie publishes a textbook case of getting the whole thing wrong. Out come the bear’s (and dragon’s) claws, shredding it piece by piece… The attentive reader will have noted an odd transformation in the Western narrative regarding Russia-China relations – the Bear and Dragon story which the current author has been […]

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By Nalin de Silva October 28, 2014, 5:28 pm I thank Mr. Sena Mahwatta for responding on 24th October 2014 to my article on “Knowledge as construction” in The Island on September 10 2014. He says that he needs clarifications on two parts of my article. The first part is on my statement “I must […]

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PRESS RELEASE Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC Washington DC, October 28: Senior officials of the Governments of the United States and Sri Lanka met recently in Colombo to continue their dialogue on trade and investment issues and for evaluating the progress under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between the two countries. The officials […]

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