The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society today said that they are ready to accept the essential items carried by the controversial "Captain Ali" vessel to distribute among the Internally Displaced Persons in the North.
Among the 100,000 refugees in Malaysia, many Sri Lankans are ready to risk all on a clandestine voyage into the Indian Ocean, writes Tom Allard in Kuala Lumpur....
The newly appointed tourism minister Nandana Gunatilake, from the NFF, says he sees no issue with regard to the 13th amendment to the constitution....
by L. Jayasooriya
In an article in the Daily News of Friday July 03, 2009 Dayan Jayatillake says “One of the silliest arguments against the implementation of the 13th Amendment is that it is a stepping-stone to or somehow related to the Tamil separatist cause”. ...
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave for Egypt next week to attend the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit....