The Sri Lankan military won the war against the Tamil Tigers over six months ago. But since that time, the island has been steadily losing the peace that the people
After years of refusing to become tied to the strings attached to IMF monies, Sri Lanka has agreed to a massive new loan. But will it be enough to lift the economy from its current morass?
In Sri Lanka, the rule of law has been replaced by the law of the rulers.
The Uva Provincial Council election, held during the first week of August, marked the
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Andaman exhibit
As word of the ocean Shangri-la has spread through Europe and America, tourism in one of Southasia's most isolated area, the Andaman Islands, has
Twenty years after the assassination of human-rights activist Rajani Thiranagama, her prophetic words could inspire a new generation of activists in Sri Lanka.
In post-conflict Sri Lanka, governance is being militarised.
After the defeat of the LTTE, it was hoped that Southasia's most desirable capital city, whose many beautiful trees
Throughout the years of the island's ethnic conflict, successive governments of Sri Lanka maintained that the war was against the LTTE and not the Tamil people. As such,
Located strategically in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka was a hub in the maritime silk and spice routes for millennia. It drew traders from the East and West for both
Mahinda Rajapakse has had a good few months. First, he resoundingly defeated the LTTE, ending a war that had raged for almost three decades. Then, just as calls for an
The war in Sri Lanka is officially over. LTTE founder and chief-for-life, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead beyond all doubt, killed while trying to escape from the tiny strip
