KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay provides additional information on Sri Lanka’s role in establishing Theravada Buddhism in South East Asia. It is a supplementary essay to the earlier essays on    subject. Historians agree that the major impact of Sinhala Buddhist culture was on South East Asia, on Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the Yunnan province […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS THAILAND Thailand had received Sinhala Buddhism by the   6th century at least. A Mon inscription dated 550-650 AD found in Narai cave in Saraburi province spoke of a group of Anuradhapura persons who had settled in Dvaravati.  However, Gunawardana says, the earliest Sinhala Buddhist influence  found in Thailand, was  at Nagara Sri Dhammaraja,   […]

Dilrook Kannangara The pandemic has proven how disastrous the western open economic system is without checks and balances. This is the perfect time to invest in a local production of food, transport, storage, and retail. The government must get back to the business of food. In order to do so, the government must have large […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane AGENT ORANGE is the best known highly toxic herbicide and defoliant chemical, developed by Americans and used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program in Vietnam and neighboring countries. Between 1962 and 1971, during the Vietnam war, the United States military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of various […]

By Michael Waldholz Courtesy Sciencetific American Slated for human trials, EIDD-2801 could become the first pill for COVID-19 An oral medicine was able to hinder the coronavirus behind COVID-19 as it attempted to replicate itself in human lung cells in test tubes, scientists reported Monday. It also hampered closely related coronaviruses from reproducing in mice for […]

On 5th April 2020, a group of 163 civil society activists & 17 organizations placed their names on a letter to H E President Gotabaya Rajapakse on behalf of the Muslims appealing to grant burial to covid-19 dead. This is not to argue against their petition but to ask 2 questions. Firstly, why not issue […]

Professor Anthony Costello courtesy The Guadian (UK) Anthony Costello is professor of global health and sustainable development at University College London Data from east Asia shows testing, tracing and isolating people with coronavirus is the best way to tackle the pandemic When will the pandemic end? The future is uncertain, but it seems likely that […]

Chanaka Bandarage Galle Face Green was established in 1859 by Governor Sir Henry Ward, for the sole purpose of recreation.  A 1.6 km long promenade was constructed along the oceanside, especially with the purpose of ladies and children to saunter and take in the air. Galle Face originally was spread over a much larger area than […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම ලංකා ලංකා පෙම්බර ලංකා පිනවමු ඔබ ලංකා හොබවමු ඔබ ලංකා දිවිදී සුරකිමු ඔබ ලංකා… බලි තරු රාවණ ගැමුණු විජයබා නිරිඳුන් ලද ලංකා පුලතිසි දැමි සිරි රහල් කුමරතුඟු පඬුවන් ලද ලංකා විදු සක්‌විති මහ පැරකුම් කිවිසුරු කිවියන් ලද ලංකා ඔබ රැකුණොත් ලොව කුඹුවද අපහට ශීත ගඟුලි ලංකා ලංකා ලංකා පෙම්බර ලංකා… මහවැලි කළු කැළැණී […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්               ලෝකයම වෙලා ගත් නව වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ අද වන විට සියල්ලෝම හුදකලා වී සිටිති. ඇඳිරි නීතිය වේවා නගර වසා තැබීම  වේවා මගින් ඇති කරන ලද සමාජ දුරස්ථකරණය හමුවේ කාර්මික විප්ලවය විසින් ඇති කරන ලද ගෝලීය මනෝභාවය අර්බුදයට පත්ව තිබේ. ලංකාව දූපතක් බැවින් වසංගත තත්වයන් නිරතුරු පැතිරෙන්නේ සාංක්‍රමණිකයන්ගෙනි. මේ නිසා ගුවන් තොටුපළ වසා […]

ඒ. ජේ. එම්. මුසම්මිල් වයඹ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර මේ වසරේ අප්‍රේල් මස 12 සහ 13 දෙදින වෙන්ව තිබෙන්නේ සිංහල සහ දමිළ අලුත් අවුරුද්ද නිමිත්තෙන්ය . ශ්‍රී ලංකාවාසි සිංහල සහ දමිළ ජනතාව මෙය සළකනු ලබන්නේ තමන්ගේ ප්‍රධානම ජාතික උත්සවයක් ලෙසය . බක්මහට යෙදී ඇති සිංහල දමිළ අලුත් අවුරුද්ද මුළු රටම නැවුම් අසිරියකින් පුරවාලන බතින් බුලතින් ගහ කොළෙන් […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. Mr. Mass L Usuf, who is well versed in Islamic jurisprudence in an article titled Understanding the question of Cremation and Burial” written to Colombo Telegraph has said that almost everyone, some way or the other, is bounded by religion and religious traditions, the disposal of a dead body is […]

Sunil Wimalawansa The importance of social distancing, personal hygiene, and governmental actions needed to control the current pandemic of COVID-19. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgcTivH1nGwymgX_cb0V4Mg

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C.  The Government of Sri Lanka has introduced a new bank account termed Special Deposit Account (SDA) for all Sri Lankans living in and outside the country to remit their foreign currency earnings, savings and investments to any bank of their choice in Sri Lanka. It is in the form […]

By P.K. Balachandran courtesy Ceylon Today The US now accounts for a third of the “active” COVID-19 cases in the world. According to the latest figures put out by the WHO, there were 1,101,497 active cases in the world as a whole on Thursday April 9. Out of this, 397,472 were in the US. In […]

Courtesy Adaderana Seven more persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) today bringing the country’s infections tally to 210, says the Ministry of Health. All the coronavirus cases confirmed today were found among the persons who were put under mandatory quarantine for having close contacts with the previously identified COVID-19 patients. According to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has amended a law to make cremation compulsory for those dying from the novel coronavirus to prevent any potential threat. The Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance (Chapter 222) has been amended by a gazette issued by Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, the government said. Wanniarachchi said that the body shall be […]

Courtesy Adaderana A decline in the coronavirus infections in the country is expected in the coming days, said Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. The patients identified are all linked to one patient; therefore, there is no difficulty in identifying the spread of the infection, Dr. Jasinghe said. Obtaining samples from high-risk sites for […]

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Spanish colonial crimes – Bull Fighting – Spanish Flu – Covid-19 do you see a connection? Do these trail of thoughts carry a trail of tears? Do they implore Spain to revisit their moral standing of past and present actions? Over 500 years of colonial crimes, over 300 years of bullfighting, Nature has watched silently […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is regret to note that the coronavirus pandemic and associated unstable economic environment created in the world has caused to dramatically depreciate official currency units of developing countries.  Sri Lanka’s rupee value has depreciated to more than Rupees 200 to a US dollar and other developing countries also gaining similar results […]

By Orpheus Perera It is pathetic, some Sri Lankan’s are still pointing the finger at China for causing this deadly virus. Did they point the finger at Spanish people for Spanish Virus which killed 30 to 50 million people in 1918? Did they point the finger at America for giving AIDS to foreign countries too? […]

Anjalika Silva USA A new category of foreign investor…. What Sri Lanka can do…. The recent Covid19 Pandemic has devastated economies, lives and lifestyles worldwide. However, for Sri Lanka, it comes at a time when recovery from endless misfortunes affecting the financial strength of the country was barely turning around.  This has struck another blow […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA It is sad to note that attempts are being made by Hakeem and Mujibur Rehman to overcome their political desolation by instigating the Muslims over-performing funerals of some corona infected Muslims.  These so-called Muslim lovers who remained totally silent when Rodee Ranawaka and his companions Ratana and Gnanasara theros (saffron-robed thugs) […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  The TV news item today was about Sri Lankan specialist doctors undergoing training in the UK desperately want to return home. It is quite strange that they all want to come back when only a small percentage of the doctors return after going abroad. Some specialists trained in a lucrative specialty return […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය. භද්‍රාණී ජයවර්ධණ මහත්මිය ලේකම්, සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය, කොළඹ 10. මහත්මියනි, කල්මුණෙ අශ්රොෆ් මූලික රෝහලේ හෙදි නේවාසිකාගාරයේ සිදුවී ඇති මංකොලල්ය හා හෙදි නිලධාරීන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව සැලසීම සම්බන්ධවයි 2020. 04. 11 (අද) දින අළුයම 1.30 ට පමන කල්මුණේ අශ්රොෆ් මූලික රෝහලේ හෙදි නේවාසිකාගාරයට ඇතුළු වු සොරුන් විසින් හෙදි  නිලධාරීන්ට මරණ තර්ජනය කර […]

සමස්ත ලංකා වරාය පොදුසේවක සමිතිය. අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ මණ්ඩලය, සේවක සමූපකාර බැංකුව, සේවක සුභසාධක සමූපකාර සමිතිය (EWC) ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය, කොළඹ. අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ මණ්ඩල සාමාජික මහත්ම මහත්මීන් වෙත, රට තුල පත්ව ඇති හදිසි තත්වය මත වරාය බැංකු සාමාජික මහත්ම මහත්මීන් වෙත සහන ලබාදීමට කළ ඉල්ලීම. මේ වන විට ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව තුල බලපා ඇති කොරෝනා වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් පත්ව […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  After conquering the Kandyan  kingdom British established a regime where body tax, property tax, etc were implemented and there was no income tax. British police with Sri Lankan supporters of various Arrachchis’ has ruled the masses with a strict regime. The country was ruled with an iron fist and people had to […]

Sarah Boseley Health editor Courtesy The Guardian (UK) New quarantine and social distancing ‘suppression’ measures are based on modelling by Imperial College A week is a long time in a coronavirus pandemic. Within days of Boris Johnson and his advisers announcing that anyone with symptoms of a cold should stay at home for seven days but otherwise […]

By Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Yasmeen Abutaleb Courtesy The Washington Post In the absence of federal direction, states and America’s top experts forge the path ahead. A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and return Americans to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House. Instead, a […]