Questions galore as premier targets the Sunday Times
With President Maithripala Sirisena abroad, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe functioned as the de facto head of…
To Vietnam with love
A Buddhist delegation from Vietnam this week visited the Sri Maha Bodhi to receive a sapling…
A disheartening end of the road
With Sri Lanka’s elderly population on the increase, the related social issues have also been on…
Pick of the Pix
Pix by Nissanka Meegoda, Indika Handuwala, M.A.Pushpakumara, Shelton Hettiarachchi, Sunil Thathiriarachchi, Jayarathna Wickramarachchi.…
Born small and being small
In February 2010, representatives from all countries in Asia and the Pacific region gathered in Beijing…
Finding the true essence of food in people and culture
The bustling Kollupitiya market is where we meet Brazilian chef Ivan Brehm as he critically inspects…
Sri Lanka’s fuel pricing formula
Apparently, there is a fuel pricing formula in operation in Sri Lanka. Professionals support a pricing…
Lankan economy fails continuously
The Annual Report of the Central Bank (CB) of Sri Lanka for the year of 2017…
New transportation plans promise exciting growth for Colombo
Colombo is on the verge of an imminent and exciting change. Until recently, the city has…
Early childhood development to play significant role in 2019 budget
While education is at the heart of empowerment endowing people with skills to actively participate in…
A lot to chew on as a meaty script is well executed
Martin McDonagh’s scripts often embrace the most violent parts of our psyche, allowing it to run…
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Rapid Response Unit after drug criminals
Amid grave concern over narcotics smuggling and drug-related crimes, the Police have set up a ‘Special Road Blocks and Rapid Response Unit’. Special unit members…
Tea-oil deal with Iran to overcome sanctions issues
The Sri Lanka Tea Board has proposed that the payments…
Legal action against nearly 500 dons who broke the bonds
More bonus seats; 50:50 ratio for provincial councils
Worms in imported canned fish: 190 containers detained
Welikada mobile phone jammers disrupt Government Press and others also
SriLankan’s million plus salary details out following pilots’ RTI petition
Criminals or victims? How men entangle women in drug trade
State-run Milco in a muddle owing millions to farmers
Maharagama MC opposition members blow hot air
Manzil CMC Opposition leader
1990 emergency ambulance service now in Jaffna
13 companies vie for new 4-tower court complex in Hulftsdorp
Micro Finance Cos. lend money sans Central Bank authority
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It’s a matter of time than a matter of pride
By Champika FernandoThat visiting teams have a distinct wdisadvantage playing in ‘alien’ conditions is common knowledge. Local pitches are tailored to give the home side a definite…
Would slinger Malinga be left in the lurch?
Now it all leads up to ‘Slinger Malinga’ will not…
Dineshkanthan, Anika bag second title
CRC’s men retain Deepam Trophy while women win Adyar Trophy
Access marks huge win against John Keells
Soldier Chaminda Hettiarachchi betters Para World Athletics Record
I call myself a mystery spinner – Akila Dananjaya
Sri Lanka in 2-1 win over World Champs India
Galle Stadium conundrum: The inside story
Armand and Kumari emerge UTE winners
Junior Tuskers’ mahout Nilfer has his work cut out for him
Why cricket is seeking a new constitution?
Weekend Star Thilina Suresh (Coats) 118 in 69 balls vs Durdans
Little Petes tell us how it’s done!
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Used car parts
A worker sweeps near a roadside stall at Panchikawatte, Colombo selling used car parts. Used car parts’ shops like these have a good business for…
WHT implementation baffles tax payers
The public has been baffled by the implementation of Inland…
Mathematics of fuel pricing
Intercontinental hotel back after 20 years
Hingurakgoda, next airport in Sri Lanka
Political versus commercial decisions
Born small and being small
HEINEKEN Lanka Ltd marks 20th year in Sri Lanka
BRICA helps Sri Lankan companies tap “Belt and Road Initiative”
Central Bank seeks expertise to probe/ audit some ‘selected’ companies
Dilmah Tea Founder honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award by World Association of Chefs
Research teams from 6 countries launch report on SDGs
Thai Cave Rescue: Lessons for Lankan corporates
Dankotuwa Porcelain-made collection honoured by London’s V&A Museum
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Editorial
Political stability vital for FTAs to work
While the world is at war on trade, and one-time proponents of free trade have turned to protectionism and vice-versa, Sri Lanka’s current dispensation has opted for free trade. The US has waged a trade war on the EU and on China both of whom have retaliated with tit-for-tat tariffs…
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- Political Commentary
Questions galore as premier targets the Sunday Times
With President Maithripala Sirisena abroad, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe functioned as the de facto head of government running the affairs of state. He was both active and aggressive…
- 5th Column
Judgement will prevail, the hangman is here
My dear Maithri, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you were at the centre of the latest controversy to hit our land. Yes,…
- The Economic Analysis
Economic implications of New York Times expose: Infrastructure development and foreign debt
The New York Times (NYT) expose of June 25, 2018 on the country’s high foreign indebtedness to China has once again drawn attention to the high cost of…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Dayan for Russia: ‘Nyet’ from High Post’s Committee
President Maithripala Sirisena has been called upon to decide whether or not Dayan Jayatilleke should be Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Russia. This was because a majority of those…
- Focus on Rights
An extraordinary lapse of good Judgement
The fact that the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) had accepted sponsorship from tainted primary dealer Perpetual Treasuries for the holding of the 2016 Law Asia conference…
- Sunday Punch
The Archbishop strikes back
Last week the Sunday Punch commented on President Sirisena’s intention to implement the death penalty, which had been in abeyance for the last 42 years, when he declared…
- Thoughts from London
Trump wouldn’t say that would he?
It is a world of weird happenings. From prelates to presidents to politicians of different hues in different countries and riff raff too are rushing to explain themselves.…
- Lobby
A damp squib with a smattering of mud
The UNP-sponsored debate in Parliament, on Thursday, based on a New York Times (NYT)-article in June, titled “How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port”, resulted…
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Bombers who became monks
Britain’s war-time Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill famously called the Japanese attack on the naval base in Trincomalee “the most dangerous moment” of the Second…
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Nawa Kalakaruwo make a mark with different mediums
Vedic myth and Buddhist iconography
Tarry awhile to savour this captured piece of magic
Finding the true essence of food in people and culture
CE LA VI to take Colombo nightlife a notch higher
A time for family, the wilds and golf
I’m merely an instrument of my art–Druvinka
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A feast of diversity
It was a feast of fashion from the perspective of 21 local and international fashion design graduates at the International Graduate Fashion Spectacle 2018 on…
A lot to chew on as a meaty script is well executed
Cosmopolitan turns 2
Of timeless wit and ‘Wilde’ characters
A peculiar pack of cards
Gadgets for July
Law students gear up for ALSA Forum 2018
Ask the stars a question
‘Three Lions’ England World Cup song races up the charts
MAMMA MIA! Here We Go Again, Hits the theatre in Colombo
Lucky Deva and Anuradha at the helm of MAF
Jubilee Celebrations for Housewives
‘Down Memory Lane’: Memorable evening
Drama with ever popular songs
‘My main aim was to share the stories I knew with the world’
Battle of a war veteran to clear his name
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Why the World Cup mattered
PARIS – The seventeenth-century philosopher and satirist Jean de La Bruyère once quipped that, “Corneille portrays…
Trump in hot seat over the indecisive summit
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Of timeless wit and ‘Wilde’ characters
Oscar Wilde was a man who refused to be boxed in- both in his life and…
A peculiar pack of cards
Gadgets for July
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MAMMA MIA! Here We Go Again, Hits the theatre in Colombo
‘Mamma Mia’- Here we go again, the theatrical production of famous box office movie ‘Mamma Mia’…
Lucky Deva and Anuradha at the helm of MAF
Jubilee Celebrations for Housewives
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Poson Bakthi Gee at JMS International Montessori School
A ceremony with Poson Bakthi Gee at JMS International Montessori School, Ekala, Ja-Ela recently.…