Chinese research vessel saga By Rathindra Kuruwita There would be constant pressure on Sri Lanka to distance itself from China in the future, Ramindu Perera, lecturer at the Open University Law faculty said, commenting on the controversy surrounding the Chinese research vessel, Yuan Wang 5.Sri Lanka, thus, must figure out how to benefit from the […]
PETALING JAYA:Sri Lankans, who have been entering Malaysia, under visit visas, in the hope of obtaining employment passes here, were denied entry by the authorities.According to a report by Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror, at least 20 Sri Lankans were reportedly deported, weekly, from Malaysian airports.The report said Malaysian Immigration authorities are taking stringent measures to […]
Emergency receives some lawyers’ backing: By Shamindra Ferdinando In spite of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) being quite clearly opposed to the declaration of Emergency, to deal with the continuing challenge posed by the ‘protest movement’, an increasingly vociferous section of the lawyers overwhelmingly support measures taken by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is […]
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By Akitha Perera General Secretary of the All Ceylon Private Bus Owners’ Association Anjana Priyanjith yesterday said that they had commenced a strike from midnight of 04 August over the inadequate supply of diesel.He said that buses only received 40 litres a week through the QR system and that it was not at all sufficient […]