It was a well-known fact that when military dictators, often from poor countries, wanted to attend the United Nations General Assembly, or go abroad, they would take a huge delegation of government ministers, officials and hangers-on. He would probably hire an entire aircraft and several wings of a hotel for the retinue.

"Thaaththa," Bindu Udagedera said, "what is happening with all these talks that have been scheduled…?"

The Norwegian ambassador to Colombo Hans Brattskar has got hot under the collar on reading some news stories in the local newspaper “The Island.” Personally I would have left Mr. Brattskar to exercise his forked tongue with the dexterity....

The export of paddy or rice to India is more a measure of failure in our agricultural policies than an indicator of success. It is an irrational economic move that is costly to the country rather than a benefit.

In an article first published in the Sri Lanka Journal of International Law, Volume 16, 2004, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, former Justice of Sri Lanka's Supreme Court, Mark Fernando explained succinctly as to why decisions of the United Nations Human Rights Committee are binding on Sri Lanka.

NEW YORK - When US newspapers ran horrifying pictures of American soldiers humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners in the now-notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad last year, there was an international outcry that the Bush...