Prevailing media narrative does not reveal the internal tensions and external pressures that saw former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe sacked -New leader Mahinda Rajapakse’s budget,...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriiya
International conferenceson maritime affairs in the Indian Ocean region have seen a spike in recent times. Sri Lanka has invariably figured in...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The Indian Ocean has been the focus of frequent and intense diplomatic activity in the past few years. These interactions have had...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The available information on the return of the US Peace Corps (USPC) to Sri Lanka on the stated mission of ‘English language...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (19th June) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the...
By Tamara Kunanayakam
former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
April 3, 2018
The question repeatedly asked of me, a major preoccupation of...
Par Jean-Pierre Page
Les évènements tragiques intervenus ces derniers jours à Ampara dans le sud-est du pays et surtout à Kandy, l’ancienne capitale historique de...
Amid growing great power rivalry
Maldives political crisis deepens
By Rohantha De Silva
23 February 2018
The ongoing political crisis in the Maldives has thrown into...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) organised by the India Foundation and held at the Sri Lankan Prime Minister's official residence 'Temple Trees'...