The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Bagley had wide ranging discussions with Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Friday evening, Daily Mirror learns.
The Sri Lanka-China friendship National Nephrology Hospital is to be opened soon to the general public.
The Hindu: Sri Lanka faced no pressure from China with regard to the East Container Terminal (ECT) project, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has said.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his Government has always taken care of the welfare and aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamils and the issue of Tamil rights has consistently been taken up with Sri Lankan leaders.
The Government of Japan provided a total sum of $ 620,379 (approx. Rs. 115 million) to Skavita Humanitarian Assistance and Relief Project (SHARP) for humanitarian demining activities in northern Sri Lanka.
During his four years in office, President Donald Trump and his Republican administration repeatedly highlighted so-called "infrastructure weeks" that ultimately resulted in few big projects moving down the line.
BBC: Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely.
TAIPEI - China’s central bank has partnered with SWIFT, the European-based global system for financial messaging and cross-border payments, to set up a joint venture — a move that observers say shows China’s ambitions to take the digital version of its currency, the yuan, global.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan welcomed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s assurance given to allow burial of those who succumbed to COVID-19.
The World Health Organization says debilitating post-COVID-19 symptoms in patients will have an impact on global health because of the magnitude of the pandemic.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday all hypotheses regarding the origins of COVID-19 remain open, following his discussions with investigative team members about the findings during their visit to China.
Christians bury their dead, too, and some in Sri Lanka have also been hurt by the move, which came despite World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines which permit burials for people who die from COVID.
BEIJING - The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain's pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
චන්ද්රයාගේ ගමන් මඟ අනුව සෑම වසරකම පෙබරවාරි මාසයේදී සමරණ චීන අලුත් අවුරුද්ද නොහොත් “චීන චන්ද්ර මංගළ්ලය” අදයි.
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s statement on the reversal of the mandatory cremation policy of the Government received swift welcome from US Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz.
A new trial is to test how well the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine works in children.
Presidential Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication Chairman Basil Rajapaksa yesterday said the Government plans to make Sri Lanka the first COVID-19 free country in South Asia.
A World Health Organization panel of immunization experts Wednesday recommended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for all ages and in regions where variant strains of the virus are prevalent.
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