International Affairs

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the United Nations would work to mobilize key international actors to pressure Myanmar “to make sure” that the country’s military coup fails.

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The military government that seized power in Myanmar will get along well with its authoritarian neighbor China in the long term, despite historical misgivings, and grow closer if international sanctions isolate the Southeast Asian state from Western powers, observers say.

පසුගිය 2020 වසරේ කොවිඩ් වසංගත අර්බුධයේ ආරම්භයෙන් පසු මෙරටට පැමිණෙන ප්‍රථම රාජ්‍ය නායකයා ලෙස පකිස්තාන අගමැති ඉම්රාන් ඛාන් ලබන පෙබරවාරි 23 වනදා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සැපත්වීමට නියමිත බව විදේශ ලේකම් අද්මිරාල් ආචාර්ය ජයන්ත කොළඹගේ පවසයි.

එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්වරිය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මානව හිමකම් කඩවී ඇතැයි ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති වාර්තාව ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය විසින් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇති බව බලශක්ති අමාත්‍ය උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි.

2022 වර්ෂයේ ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ 55 වන වාර්ෂික සමුළුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේදි පැවැත්වීමට එහි පාලක මණ්ඩලය තීරණය කර ඇත.

Sri Lanka, having faced terrorism for nearly 30 years, remains concerned by the unabated progression of terrorism in all its forms and manifestation, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Secretary to the UN Mohan Peiris said.

In a flurry of meetings a day after Sri Lanka backed out of an agreement with India and Japan, to develop the East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo Port, Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Tuesday, official sources told The Hindu.

නැගෙනහිර ජැටිය වෙනුවෙන් ඉන්දියාව, ජපානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර 2019 මැයි අත්සන් කළ ත්‍රෛපාර්ශ්වික ගිවිසුම කඩිනමින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පියවර ගනු ඇතැයි ඉන්දීය රජය අපේක්ෂා කරන බව කොළඹ ඉන්දීය මහකොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය ප්‍රකාශ කරයි.

In a historic move, the UAE on Saturday announced major changes to the citizenship law, to allow for the naturalisation of foreign investors, doctors, scientists, artists and talented people and their families.

The United States and Sri Lanka have had talks on the human rights issue and other related matters.

Renowned Chef and Restaurateur Dharshan Munidasa, who for the past 25 years has been dedicated to promoting Japanese cuisine and cooking philosophies in Sri Lanka, has received the honorary title of “Japanese Cuisine Goodwill Ambassador” by the Japanese Government.

Sri Lanka’s head is once again on the UNHRC’s chopping block, as it has been pretty much since May 2009; but this year, the country seems a lot closer to being struck a severe blow. It is not entirely unexpected, given the Government’s decision last February to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution 30/1 and others adopted after 2015. This Resolution was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka under the previous Government.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sri Lanka’s 73rd Independence Day, the Indian High Commission said in a statement yesterday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) noted Monday that globally, the number of new coronavirus cases fell for the third consecutive week.

A team of World Health Organization scientists investigating the source of the coronavirus visited a wet market Sunday in Wuhan, China.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive orders Tuesday to start to dismantle former President Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policies, including an attempt to reunite families that had been separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - A Monday morning power grab by Myanmar’s military has set the country’s nascent democratic reform drive back at least a decade and will likely bolster what were already growing ties with China and Russia, analysts say.

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a number of other ruling party officials were detained Monday, a spokesperson said.