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Nick Turse Courtesy The Intercept A formerly secret map from AFRICOM shows a network of 29 U.S. military bases that stretch from one side of Africa to another. Nick Turse LAST MONTH, ABOUT a dozen al-Shabab fighters infiltrated the perimeter of a military base in Manda Bay, KenyaOpens in a new tab. One of them took aim […]

By Liu Xin Courtesy Global Times Accusations of ‘debt trap,’ ‘neocolonialism’ have no market in KenyaOver the last decade, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has yield fruitful achievements and greatly enriched China-Africa relations. As this year marks the 10th anniversary of the proposal of BRI, Global Times reporters Liu Xin and Xing Xiaojing (GT) […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 2: Alienated from India, the Mohamed Muizzu government in the Maldives has entered into deals with China and Sri Lanka to counter India’s bid to influence its policies. For one, the Maldives is trying to attract Chinese tourists to fill the gap created by the loss of Indian tourists […]

Courtesy CGIAR Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the city sufficiently utilized green infrastructure? Sitting at the Kelani River delta on the west coast of Sri Lanka, set amidst a backdrop of shiny hotels, red-tiled colonial era-buildings and street markets, Colombo appears to be your typical Asian […]

Courtesy Nikkei Asia Indo-Pacific and ASEAN meetings with Europe underscore divided views Palestinians walk past a house destroyed by an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, in early January.   © Reuters RHYANNON BARTLETT-IMADEGAWA and CATHERINE DE BEAUREPAIRE, Nikkei staff writersFebruary 3, 2024 06:35 JST BRUSSELS — Indonesia and Sri Lanka’s foreign ministers called on the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The saffron-robed person claiming to be ‘Vishwa Buddha’ has been ordered to be further remanded in custody until 16 February, 2024. This order was issued when he was produced before the Gangodawila Magistrate’s Court in Nugegoda, Ada Derana reporter said. The suspect, who was out on bail, was re-arrested on 23 January by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Online Safety Act has been published in the government gazette, bringing it into effect as the Online Safety Act, No. 9 of 2024. Accordingly, the Act will provide for the establishment of the Online Safety Commission, safety from prohibited statements made online and prevention of the use of online accounts and inauthentic […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Thailand, Feb. 02 (Bangkok Post) The Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is expected to be signed between Thailand and Sri Lanka this week, will benefit Thailand’s exports of automotive parts, textiles, electrical appliances, machinery, steel products, paper, processed food and animal feed, Thai media reported. Thailand and Sri Lanka will sign […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 02 (Daily Mirror) –  The Government of Sri Lanka has negotiated a financial assistance package of USD 150 million from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group. The funds are earmarked for the implementation of the Financial Sector Safety Net Strengthening Project. The primary focus of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 02 (Daily Mirror) – Former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella has been arrested  by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) a short while ago in connection with the importation of substandard Immunoglobulin injections. Rambukwella complied with a court order, arrived at the CID this morning to provide a statement. Maligakanda Magistrate […]

By Garvin Karunaratne All of us do some jobs to find a living and later in retirement get to oblivion, some become activists, others don robes, finding paths for self-salvation. The greatness in Mahindapala is that in unpaid lifetime, in retirement, he fought for Sri Lanka for the downtrodden, and provided ideas for new paths […]

By  Mawbima කෘතහස්ත මාධ්‍යවේදී එච්.එල්.ඩී. මහින්දපාල අභාවප්‍රාප්ත වී තිබේ. මිය යන විට ඒ මහතා 93 වන වියේ පසු විය. සන්ඩේ ඔබ්සර්වර් සහ ඔබ්සර්වර් (ඩේලි) පුවත්පත්වල ප්‍රධාන කර්තෘවරයෙකු ලෙස සේවය කළ ඔහු 50 දශකයේ ප්‍රකට මධ්‍යවේදින් වන ක්ලැරන්ස් ප්‍රනාන්දු, ඩෙන්සිල් පීරිස් වැන්නවුන්ගේ සමකාලීනයෙකි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, ඔහු 70 දශකයේ ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවට සංක්‍රමණය විය. එහි සිට ඩේලි නිව්ස් පුවත්පතට […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ- ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් ලංකා ජාතික සංගමයේ ප‍්‍රධානීන් සිංහලේ (සිලෝන් ක්‍ැහකදබ*/ලංකාවේ පූර්ණ නිදහස සඳහා සටන් කළේ නැත. දැඩිව ඉල්ලීමක් හෝ කළේ නැත. ඉංගිරිසි කොළනිවාදීන් විසිවෙනි සියවසේ මුල සිට වරින් වර ”ආණ්ඩුක‍්‍රම ප‍්‍රතිසංස්කරණ” මගින් ලංකා කොලනිය පාලනය කිරීමට ඔවුන් යොදාගෙන සනසා ඇත.”ආණ්ඩුක‍්‍රම ප‍්‍රතිසංස්කරණය මළකුණ කි”යනුවෙන් ප‍්‍රතික්‍ෂේප කළ ජාතික නිදහස් සටන් පෙරමුණේ අභීත කවියා වූ […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena requested the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to assist the government’s initiative to introduce a dispute prevention and resolution mechanism to public service. He made this request when ILO Country Director Joni Simpson called on the Prime Minister at the Temple Trees today (Feb 1) together with United […]

By Nick Turse In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place — Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine — at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they […]

Tom Dispatch Posted on January 30, 2024  How fully the worlds of toy-making and war-making, of toy companies, video-game outfits, movie studios, and the Pentagon have meshed” was Nick Turse’s first piece for TomDispatch. That was in October 2003, only months after President George W. Bush and crew had ordered the invasion of Iraq. Nick […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Tamil political leaders have yet again approached the Indian political leadership through the Indian High Commissioner requesting to consider their demands on behalf of the Northern and the Eastern Tamils to ensure that their ‘problems’ are dealt with the intervention of India. Unfortunately, the periodic emotional plea to the Indian authorities by […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අද වන විට ශාසනයට ඇතිවී තිබෙන පරිහානියට මහා නා හිමි නමක්ද වගකිය යුතුව ඇති බව අධිකරණ බන්ධනාගාර කටයුතු හා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා ප‍්‍රතිසංස්කරණ අමාත්‍ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. පුවත්පතක් සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පළ කර තිබේ. භික්ෂු කථිකාවත් පනත සම්මත කරලා ඔය කියන නිත්‍යානුකූල තත්ත්වය ඇති කරලා දෙන්න […]

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Courtesy Hiru News In a significant initiative, the Minister of Education, Susil Premajayantha, has announced that all primary school children will receive free lunches starting from March 2024. This program aims to ensure that every child in primary schools has access to a nutritious meal without any financial burden on their families. The move is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Prelate (Mahanayake Thero) of the Malwathu Chapter Most Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangalabhidhana Thero states that there is no fault in introducing new laws to control the various abuses that are being perpetrated on social media by altering the truth, for a long time. The Mahanayake Thero made this remark when […]

Courtesy Hiru News Today marks a significant step forward in digital freedom as the Speaker has officially endorsed the Online Safety Bill. With this endorsement, the Online Safety Bill becomes effective immediately Accordingly, the said Bill will come into effect as the Online Safety Act No.9 of 2024. >Also, the Speaker endorsed the certificate on […]