National Inflation Increases to 2.7% in October

Three top international judges to visit Sri Lanka

Three judges, from three different legal traditions, will visit Sri Lanka and speak on the role that constitutional courts have played in their respective countries, at a forum on 4 October in Colombo. The three judges; Chief Justice Alejandro Linares-Cantillo, Justice Edwin Cameron, and Justice Ilwon Kang, come from three different legal traditions: the Latin American, the South African, and the East Asian, respectively. Each of their societies had to manage different socio-political and hist

29 Sep, 2018

Sooka says Sri Lanka must explain discovery of cluster remnants

As the new President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Sri Lanka must explain why de-miners have repeatedly found?cluster remnants in the 2009 war zone, given the ongoing denial, a former member of a?UN panel on Sri Lanka said. All?the evidence points to government forces using cluster munitions in 2009 against densely populated areas that they unilaterally declared?safe for hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians, the Executive Director of the International Truth and Justice Project,?Ya

29 Sep, 2018

US Senator says China using debt to trap Sri Lanka

A US senator has said China is using debt to force Sri Lanka to agree to a 99-year lease on a key port. Senator Todd Young said that while the US focussed on building self-reliance, strategic and economic partners, China focussed on resource extraction and creation of dependence. ?China?s neocolonial hardball tactics and use of debt to force Sri Lanka to agree to a 99-year lease on a key port should be instructive to observers around the region, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and elsewhere,? S

29 Sep, 2018