Since the dawn of the 20 th. century, China has been deeply concerned about the place of religion in the country’s society and politics. Both the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist party tended to associate religion with China’s...
Colombo, January 6: A distinguished team of Sri Lankan human rights activists conducted a study of the impact of the April 21, 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attack on Zion church in the Eastern district of Batticaloa by an Islamic...
A number of big ticket Chinese investments are likely to come to Sri Lanka following the visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Sri Lanka in early January, Dr.Palitha Kohana, SriLanka’s Ambassador to China, said on Saturday.
Wang...
By P.K.Balachandran
Against vociferous protests from the opposition Congress Party and the Janata Dal (Secular), the Lower House of the Karnataka State Assembly on Thursday passed the controversial “Protection of the Right to Freedom of Religion Bill 2021” aka “Anti-conversion...
When India and Pakistan were at war in December 1971 over the founding of a new nation to be known as “Bangladesh”, China was expected to rush to the aid of Pakistan, a close ally. But Beijing did little...
Apprehending a repeal of the 13 th. Amendment (13A) of the Sri Lankan constitution as part of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s plan to give Sri Lanka a new constitution, an overwhelming majority of parties representing the Tamil-speaking people of the...
Sri Lanka is facing what is arguably its most challenging external financing crisis. Gross Official Reserves have declined to USD 1.6 bn as at end-November. Repayments over the subsequent 12 months amount to about USD 7 billion. The authorities...
By P.K Balachandran
Chinese Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, made a high profile visit to the Tamil-majority Northern Province on December 15 and 16 exhibiting China’s new-found interest in that province.
Observers see the visit as a thinly-veiled challenge to...
It is a truism that India could not have won the 1971 war to liberate East Pakistan and establish Bangladesh without the political and military support extended by the Soviet Union. The USSR was the only power in the...
Colombo, December 15: Last week the US sanctioned, for alleged human rights violations, a number of individuals and entities in several countries that are not its allies. Among these were individuals from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
While the two Sri...
Colombo, December 13: Since the Blasphemy Law was enacted in Pakistan in the early 1980s,and the Federal Sharia Court ruled that the “death penalty is the only punishment for contempt of the Holy Prophet” in 1990, no mercy has...
The lynching of Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara (49) in Sialkot, Pakistan onDecember 3, is but the latest in a long series of mob or vigilante killings in the world. Lynching goes back to the American War of...
