International Affairs

Myanmar’s military government blocked public access to Facebook Thursday amid growing popular resistance to this week’s overthrow of the country’s civilian government.

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.

President Joe Biden promised Thursday that the United States would sharply increase its engagement around the world during his White House tenure, ending what he contended was the “past few years of neglect and abuse” of foreign relations by former President Donald Trump.

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.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulation message to his Sri Lankan counterpart Gotabaya Rajapaksa on the eve of the 73rd Independence Day of Sri Lanka.

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.

ප්‍රංශයේ ,දේශ හිතෛෂී ජාතක ව්‍යාපාරය විසින් අද දින (පෙබරවාරි 1දා) ශ්‍රිලංකා ජනරජයේ අතිගරැ ජනාධිපතිතුමාට භාරදිම සඳහා ප්‍රංශයේ ශ්‍රිලංකා තානාපතිතුමිය මඟින් විශේෂ සංදේශයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරිමට කටයුතු කරන ලදි.

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.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said he started engagements with the foreign envoys in Colombo as part of lobbying their support for Sri Lanka at the session of the UNHRC while briefing them about the Government’s position.

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.

Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay who called on the President and the Prime Minister separately on Tuesday, conveyed his government’s displeasure on the manner in which Sri Lanka reneged from its commitment in keeping with the 2019 Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) to develop the East Container Terminal of Colombo Port jointly with India, informed sources said.

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.