The story of diplomat Sir Wilfred Thomas Southorn and his wife Bella Woolf goes back to Sri Lanka in the early 1900s. Stuart Heaver retraces Woolf’s journey around the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’.
China’s ambassador to Sri Lanka made his second visit to the North-East last week, just days after India’s finance minister completed her tour of the region – but also stopped off at several controversial Buddhist sites. Ambassador Qi Zhenhong travelled to Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi on a three-day tour of the region, where he handed out several boxes of