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Nov. 14 |
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, former Sri Lankan President will deliver a speech titled, ‘Negotiating Identities and Emotions: Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka’ at the Harvard University on Tuesday, November 14th, 2011.
President...
Nov. 10 |
“I want to give the real story about what’s actually happening in Sri Lanka today,” said US Congressman Heath Shuler after returning from his second visit to Sri Lanka with a congressional delegation.
Congressman Shuler relishes his role as a booster...
May. 27 |
“I’ve got this opportunity; I’m living in a Western country where there is great interest in arts and culture. During 2006-07 the media here was mainly focusing Sri Lanka on the ethnic crisis. I wanted to show that Sri Lanka is not only defined...
May. 20 |
Last week the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Food for Peace (FFP) program signed a $1.5 million grant agreement to help more than 22,000 flood victims in eastern Sri Lanka.
Under the agreement, USAID – the development...
Feb. 9 |
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is handed over to a man, when a woman cannot do the job. Adopting the same approach, it would be nice if men, who cannot do the job as ministers, are replaced with women, says Valerie Fowler, Deputy Chief of Mission...
Jan. 24 |
The U.S. Embassy in Colombo today announced that it has given a grant of $5,000 to bring 30 students and teachers from all over Sri Lanka to the Galle Literary Festival to be held at the end of this week.
This comes against the backdrop where Reporters...
Jan. 15 |
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Patricia A. Butenis announced today (January 15) that the United States Government will donate nearly $300,000 in assistance to provide a variety of goods and services to the people hardest hit by the recent floods and landslides.
The...
Jan. 14 |
The Acting Permanent Representative of Sri Lankan to the UN, Major General Shavendra Silva addressed the Working Group on Girls NGO Committee on UNICEF on Advancement of Girls Child Education in Sri Lanka on the 13th of January 2011. The other round table...
Jan. 8 |
In 2001, Pakistani soldiers captured Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi as he fled Afghanistan. The Pakistani government turned the Libyan paramilitary trainer affiliated with al Qaeda over to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The U.S. Central Intelligence...
Dec. 22 |
This morning, before packed audience in the Sydney Yates auditorium at the U. S. Department of the Interior building, President Barack Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” into law.
Vice President Joe Biden opened the ceremony saying,...
