International Affairs

The Norwegian Embassy recently signed up with Moot Manor (Pvt) Ltd, becoming the first occupants of the soon to be completed M2M Veranda Offices in Colombo 02.

After the successful and pioneering training for Sri Lanka’s bamboo craftsmen in early 2019 and later in June, the third phase of the program was launched in Colombo on Wednesday 17 July.

The latest Sri Lankan Parliamentary delegation to tour China, which is led by former Cabinet Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, arrived in Shan Xi Province yesterday on its week-long visit. The delegation, comprising seven Parliamentarians and staff members, is scheduled to return on July 21.

Concerns related to the Easter Sunday attacks were raised at a US State Department conference on religious freedom held in Washington.

UN Special Rapporteur Clément Nyaletsossi Voule will visit Sri Lanka from July 18 to 26 to assess rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the country, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said today.

A team of India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths headed by director general YC Modi has probed links between Islamic State’s Kerala module and Lankan terrorist or their handlers

WhatsApp and Telegram users have been advised to take precaution while sharing media files after a top cybersecurity firm exposed a security lapse on the instant messaging platforms this week.

The commemoration ceremony for the third anniversary of the thwarted coup attempt was held on 15 July at the Official Residence of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey.

China's rolling-stock maker CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co. Ltd. has produced nine diesel trains for Sri Lanka.

Accusing the Madhya Pradesh government of “checking the facts” instead of executing his proposal to build a temple to Sita at Divurumpola in Sri Lanka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that he is “surprised that this Kamal Nath government is talking about checking the facts”.

The European Union (EU) and Sri Lanka held an informal counter-terrorism dialogue where the EU presented a support package for Sri Lanka focusing on law enforcement, rehabilitation and disengagement, counter-narratives and online radicalisation.

There was no tsunami threat to Sri Lanka at present from the 6.5 magnitude earthquake that had hit off the West Australian Coast, the National Tsunami Early Warning Centre of the Meteorology Department said today.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp called Sinopec Corp, has set up a fuel oil company in Sri Lanka to supply fuel to ships along a major maritime route.

මේ වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විසින් නවතා දමා තිබෙන, ලංකාවට ඇතුල් වූ පසුව වීසා අවශ්‍යතා සපුරන සංක්‍රමණිකයන් සඳහා වීසා ලබාදීමේ වැඩසටහන අගෝස්තු 1 දා සිට නැවත ආරම්භ කිරීමට නියමිත ය.

යුරෝපා සංගමයේ ත‍්‍රස්ත මර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකාරක, ජයිල්ස් ද කර්කොව් සහ විපක්ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් ඊයේ (13) පස්වරුවේ සිදුවුණා. ඒ, කොළඹ විජේරාම මාවතේ පිහිටි විපක්ෂ නායකවරයාගේ නිල නිවසේදීයි.

The European Union (EU) underlined the importance of efficient coordination of counter terrorism efforts, the essence of focusing on the prevention of violent extremism and the importance of counter terrorism responses to be fully in line with human rights obligations.

ඇමරිකානු විදේශ සබඳතා කමිටුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනෙක් වූ ඬේමියන් ටර්ජ් සහ සෙල්වා කසිම් මෙරටට පැමිණ ඉදිරි ජනපතිවරණය සහ දේශපාලන තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ හිටපු මහ ඇමැති විග්නේෂ්වරන් ඇතුළු ද්‍රවිඩ දේශපාලකයන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප‍්‍රධානීන් කිහිප දෙනකු සමඟ රහස් සාකච්ඡුාවක් පවත්වා ඇත.

Sri Lanka’s trade unions vehemently opposed to three contentious agreements the government has entered or are planning to enter, with the U.S. – SOFA, ACSA (Acquisition and Across Service Agreement) and MCC (Millenium Challenge Corporation).