Some 900 million people in China have been infected with the coronavirus as of 11 January, according to a study by Peking University.
The report estimates that 64% of the country's population has the virus.
It ranks Gansu province, where...
The Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar will be in Colombo on a two-day visit from January 19, All India Radio said on Friday. Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan media reported that a Chinese Communist party delegation headed by...
Pakistan is currently under siege on two fronts – the economic and the ideological. The challenge on the economic front can be tackled by ample foreign financial assistance and prudent local management. But the harder challenge is on the...
Given debt-ridden Sri Lanka’s difficulty in getting creditors to agree to haircuts and the problem it has in meeting the IMF’s onerous conditions, the subject of debt servicing has gained public attention across the world. Recently, a group of...
Canada has imposed sanctions against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa; former President Mahinda Rajapaksa; Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake and Lieutenant Commander Chandana Prasad Hettiarachchi.
A government statement said that the four had “committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during...
A Pakistani film documenting the issue of forced religious conversion in the Sindh province of Pakistan has won an award at the Cannes World Film Festival in the Best Human Rights Category for the month of November 2022....
SRI LANKA LIMPED into December with its economic sovereignty in shreds. The media headlines in the South Asian nation echoed the obvious — that the financial destiny of the country was firmly in the hands of foreigners. They ranged...
Sri Lanka’s tea industry is in crisis. The cost of production is higher and labor productivity lowers as compared to other tea-producing countries like China, India, Vietnam and Kenya.
The cost of production in Sri Lanka is US$ 3.11/kg, while...
Despite an ever-present and growing threat from an iconoclastic fringe in Pakistan, successive governments in Islamabad have managed to preserve the Islamic country’s Buddhist heritage which exists as archaeological findings.
This is all the more creditable since the remnants of...
It is commonly believed in Pakistan that its existence is under threat from its eastern neighbour India with which it has an unending dispute over Kashmir. But the threat actually comes from the outlawed Teheeik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an offshoot...
In the second week of December, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told parliament that in 2023, his government will announce new measures to curb ‘illegal’ immigration.
“If you enter the UK illegally you should not be able to remain here,”...
The struggle of the ethnic Bengalis of Pakistan for political and cultural equality began five years after Pakistan was established by the departing British rulers in August 1947.
The imposition of Urdu as the sole official language of Pakistan led...
