International Affairs

Demonstrations against Myanmar’s military junta took place across the country again Thursday in the wake of what the United Nations described as “the bloodiest day” since the February 1 coup.

The newly-appointed Sri Lanka Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand C.A. Chaminda I. Colonne assumed duties on 1 March, at the Sri Lanka Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand [concurrently accredited to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)].

Countries are inching toward greater gender equality, but women around the world continue to face laws and regulations that restrict their economic opportunity, with the COVID-19 pandemic creating new challenges to their health, safety, and economic security, a new World Bank report says.

ඉන්දියානු ගුවන් හමුදා ප්‍රධානී එයාර් චීෆ් මාර්ෂල් රාකේෂ් කුමාර් සිං බාදවූරියා මහතා ඊයේ (03) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අගමැති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමු විය.

The Government yesterday expressed confidence that India would stand with Sri Lanka on the “right side” at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions and support it to defeat the resolution that is set to be moved next week.

The World Health Organization said new coronavirus cases increased globally for the first time in seven weeks, and officials expressed concern that cases could again rise significantly.

A leading Muslim organisation in Sri Lanka will this week send an official letter of concern to the global Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the World Muslim Congress, seeking their intervention to urge the Sri Lankan government to allocate a decent land for the burial of Muslim COVID-19 victims.

JOHANNESBURG - The global COVAX vaccine distribution plan aims to deliver tens of millions of vaccine doses to low-income countries -- many of them in Africa – in the coming months, top global health officials say, describing this as a turning point in the quest to quash the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Union’s executive arm said Monday it will propose rules for a passport to allow those who have been vaccinated or recently tested for COVID-19 to travel for work or tourism throughout the region.

ඉන්දීය අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි ඊයේ පැවති ඉන්දීය සමුද්‍ර සමුළුව අමතමින් නිවේදනය කර සිටියේ ඉන්දියාව සිය සමුද්‍රීය මෙහෙයුම් පුළුල් කරමින් “සාගර මන්තන්” නමින් වාණිජ ගමනාන්ත අධීක්ෂණ මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් ආරම්භ කර ඇති බවයි

Top U.S. officials are warning that countries around the world can no longer hide from the ramifications of an ever more ambitious and aggressive China.

ලෙබනනයේ සිටින ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයන් නැවත මව්බිමට රැගෙන යාම සඳහා කිසියම් පිරිසක් විසින් සංවිධානාත්මකව මුදල් ජාවාරමක නිරතවන බවට තම තානාපති කාර්යාලයට පැමිණිලි ලැබෙන බව ලෙබනන් හි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති කාර්යාලය නිවේදනය කරනවා.

Commenting on the UK statement of February 25, 2021 in Geneva on Sri Lanka at Human Rights Council by Lord Tariq Ahmad, President of the UK all party British Sri Lanka Parliamentary group Lord Naseby said he was astounded how the UK or any other Member of the Core group could possibly welcome the High Commissioner’s so called ‘detailed & most comprehensive report on Sri Lanka.

කොළඹ දකුණු වරායේ බටහිර බහාලු පර්යන්තය ඉන්දීය අදානි සමාගම සහ වරාය අධිකාරිය සමග එක්ව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම සදහා කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය හිමිවුණා.

ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි අද පෙරවරුවේ දිල්ලියේ පිහිටි ඒම්ස් රෝහලේදී කොරෝනා ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණ එන්නත ලබාගෙන තිබේ.

Freedom of the press is a fundamental principle of any democracy, as is accountability for those who commit atrocities, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives said yesterday, responding to a powerful commentary penned by slain Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge’s daughter Ahimsa.

Sri Lanka has raised strong objections with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), accusing the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of disregarding a request to publish the response of the Government to a damning report formally submitted to the Council last week.

Chinese Permanent Representative in Geneva Ambassador CHEN Xu on Thursday extended China’s strong support to Sri Lanka in his official statement in the interactive dialogue on the OHCHR Report on Sri Lanka during the 46th Session of the Human Rights Council.