Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald The stock market is easily rattled, but it can also be easily seduced. President-elect Donald Trump’s long-term relationship with Wall Street is just getting started, but he has already demonstrated that he can not only shake up but also mollify the market. It soared to a record on Thursday, as […]

By Simon Watkins for The Mail on Sunday Britain and the US would both benefit from a new open trade deal, Donald Trump’s senior economic adviser told The Mail on Sunday this weekend. In a wide-ranging interview, Stephen Moore, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan and a key architect of Trump’s plans to slash taxes, […]

සාකච්ඡා කළේ – පාලිත සේනානායක නව ආණ්‌ඩු ක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ සම්පාදනය කිරීම සඳහා මේ දිනවල විවිධ යෝජනා හා අදහස්‌ ඉදිරිපත් වෙමින් තිබේ. එම යෝජනා අතර ඉඩම්, පොලිස්‌ සහ මුදල් බලතල සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම පළාත් සභාවලට ලබාදීමටත් පළාත් සභා විසුරුවා හැරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා සතු බලතළ කපා හැරීමටත් යෝජනාවක්‌ ඉදිරිපත් වී ඇති බව පසුගිය සතියේ වාර්තා විය. මෙවැනි යෝජනා ක්‍රියාත්මක වුවහොත් […]

Editorial Island November 11, 2016, 9:18 pm The government is hailing its own budget as a very progressive one and the Joint Opposition has dismissed it as yet another burden on the masses. One should not be as uncharitable as those who are still smarting from last year’s electoral defeats in describing the budget. But, […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island The controversy that is raging over the alleged building of what is variously described as a hotel or a holiday resort or a holiday home or just a circuit bungalow by an Arab businessman (a senior official of a proprietary rank in a multinational communications company) in the […]

Ed Tick, Ph.D In contrast to our modern situation, traditional and indigenous peoples had extensive spiritually and communally based warrior medicine, practices and lineages. They lived immersed in and part of nature and its processes, conceived of themselves not as independent agents but as members of interdependent communities, and stood in wonder before a living […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මිනිපේ ප්‍රදේශයේ ග්‍රාමීය රෝහලක ස්ථාන භාර වෛද්‍යවරයා ලෙස සේවය කරමින් සිටියදී විවිධ අත්දැකීම් මම ලැබුවෙමි. මෙම රෝහලේ පිරිමි සහ ගැහැණු ලෙස නේවාසික වාට්ටු දෙකක් තිබූ අතර අතිරේක මාතෘ වාට්ටුවක් ද විය. එම නිසා දළ වශයෙන් රෝගීන් 20 – 30 අතර ප්‍රමාණයක් මෙකී රෝහලේ දෛනිකව නේවාසිකව ප්‍රතිකාර ලැබූහ.  මම මේ රෝහලට පැමිණ මාස […]

RT US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that he will most likely abandon the Obama administration policy on Syria to seek a possible rapprochement with Russia on the issue of Assad. TrendsGlobal terrorism, Islamic State, Russian anti-terror op in Syria, Syria unrest I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” the 70-year-old Republican […]

The Indian Express Stocks on major world markets gave back some of the week’s gains on Friday, while global bond yields rose for a fifth day, supporting the US dollar but pressuring commodities and emerging markets. Stocks on major world markets gave back some of the week’s gains on Friday, while global bond yields rose […]

Shenali D Waduge There will never be an election as the 2016 US Presidential Election. It completely devastated predictions by all types of political pundits, it rose above the ridiculing, sneering, lies and exaggerations by mainstream media (foreign & local) who projected him as Hitler canvassing unethically for one candidate, it has embarrassed the high […]

Dilrook Kannangara There are eerie similarities between US ethnic composition and that of Sri Lanka. Without a doubt demographics, importantly, ethnic divisions, play the most important role in elections in all multiethnic democracies. Minorities in particular tend to caste their vote as a block which gives them a voting power above their percentage weight. This […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 9 November 2016 Mark Holland, Liberal MP for Ajax, Ontario House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario. Dear Mark: Re: First Annual General Meeting of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group Some one out there had sent me your note to your Parliamentary Colleagues informing of the […]

All Ceylon General Ports Employee Union ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරියට අයත් නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය (ECT) පෞද්ගලික සමාගමක් වෙත විකුණා දැමීමට අදාලව ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන ඇති තීරණය හා ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග වලට එරෙහිව සේවකයන් පෙළ ගැස්වීමේ ක‍්‍රියාවලිය සාර්ථක ලෙස මේ වන විට ඉදිරියට ඇදෙමින් පවතී. සාර්ථක උද්ඝෝෂණයකින් පසුව දියත් කරන ලද විරෝධතා පෙත්සම අත්සන් ගැනීම කොළඹ වරාය තුළ මේ වන විට […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Rangana has retired from ODI   and T20. but willingly accepted the role of skipper for the Zimbabwe series, winning the series for the country 2-0 and adding further 19 wickets in just 2 test matches. It must be noted that his team had only two seniors, Upul Tharanga and […]

Global Sri Lankan Forum මහජන පෙත්සම – අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ඉවත් කරනු… ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ මෙතෙක් සිදු වී ඇති විශාලතම වංචාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පොදු ව්‍යාපාර පිලිබඳ කාරක සභාව (COPE) විසින් විමර්ශනය කරන ලද අතර එහි අවසාන නිගමනය වූයේ, මෙම වංචාව මහා බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති වන අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් හා වත්මන් අගමැති වන රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා  ඇතුළත්ව තවත් පුද්ගලයින් කීප […]

Dr Hector Perera      London I received lots of emails from Sri Lanka then from other countries as well after watching my energy saving cooking programme in Sirasa TV in Sri Lanka. They all appreciated my attempt to save energy and to avoid any smell depositing on them while cooking. I replied to many then one […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   Viragaya novel is a turning point in Sinhala literature. Literary genius Martin Wicramasinghe vibrantly portrays Aravinda’s character in Viragaya digging deep in to his inner psyche. Arvada’s conscious experience and ideas running through his mind are central part of the novel.  His emotions, conscious and unconscious psychological conflicts are described in a […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The term Holodomor refers specifically to the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin’s regime on Soviet Ukraine and primarily ethnically Ukrainian areas in the Northern Caucasus in 1932-33. In the spring of 1933, the rural population of Ukraine was dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, half of them children. […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   The mythological Story of Sinhabahu describes the origins of the ‘Sinhala’ race. The Sinhalese are an ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese speak Sinhala -an Indo-Aryan language (Lewis, 2009).The name Sinhala translates to lion people. According to the Sinhabahu mythology, the Princess Suppadevi of Vanga Kingdom (a […]

P.A.Samaraweera During the last 18 months there was a bruising and hard fought contest between Hillary Clinton (HC) and Donald Trump (DT) for the post of US  President. Apart from the US, the whole world eagerly watched the outcome as the US President is supposed to occupy the most powerful seat in world politics . According […]

RT Donald Trump’s campaign manager, speaking on MSNBC, said appointing a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton can’t be ruled out, adding that discussion regarding the issue will happen in due time.” Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence are looking to unify the country, but we haven’t discussed that in recent days, and I think that […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 9, 2016, 8:06 pm It was America’s Brexit moment. Donald trumped Hillary Clinton’s Democratic leviathan which was backed by media moguls and Wall Street to the hilt and secured the much-coveted US presidency. Trump was demonised by his opponents and the media in such a way that even the people in […]

Continued from yesterday Courtesy The Island November 9, 2016, 12:00 pm If the world of maritime security was murky, the murkiest part of it was the floating armouries. In this article The Island staffer C. A. Chandraprema examines the controversy surrounding the Galle floating armoury of Avant Garde Maritime Services. By 2012, the number of firearms […]

By Ananda-USA November 8, 2016 US President-Elect Donald Trump in a very graceful and conciliatory speech promised to be the President of all Americans irrespective of political party and community affiliations, and to pursue a new foreign policy based on treating other nations, who want to co-exist peacefully with the US, with fairness and justice […]

Shenali D Waduge The report card is not looking too good. Everything is not going right in paradise isle. Although massive changes are taking place in every sphere by parties that plotted the regime change. Sovereign Sri Lanka is well on its way to becoming either a vassal state of India or an experiment for […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando The Island November 8, 2016, 9:50 pm Alleging that those who had committed mega bond scams in Feb. 2015 and March 2016 had gone scot free, the Joint Opposition yesterday revealed its intention to seek immediate intervention by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said that […]

By Gandara John That infamous Presidential Election of 2015 saw many US quislings jockeyed into sensitive political positions, the most calamitous of these being the catapulting of RW unconstitutionally, from near political Siberia to being the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. The US had executed a major coup d’état. US Colonisation of Sri Lanka had […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE The shocking victory of Donald Trump brings peace of mind to Sri Lankan majority Sinhalese.  The introduction of new constitution with unitary status, introduction of foreign judges for War Tribunal, devolution of greater autonomy for Tamils in Sri Lanka, would have been far more easier with Hillary Clinton, who has […]

Dr Hector Perera        London Eggs can be fully boiled or half boiled in water or better make omelettes because it taste better. Eggs are a versatile food and a great source of protein, and the American Diabetes Association considers eggs an excellent choice for people with diabetes. That’s primarily because one large egg contains about half […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The most precious things in human life come free, or to put in another form, the things people value least are those very things they get free. When these two phrases are equated together what do we get in Sri Lanka? It is the university education. What are glaring in […]