Clutching expensive bags, wearing designer sunglasses and changing poses swiftly, one young person after another is photographed in front of a hulking old building in downtown Singapore. The appeal stems from its window shutters, which are variously purple, blue, green, gold, orange and red. This flood of colour has made the building a prime backdrop for social media images, planting.
Wednesday 31st August, 2022 Trade unions in the power and energy sectors are up in arms against a government move to restructure the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). They would have the public believe that the blame for the staggering losses the two institutions have been incurring should be laid […]
Tuesday 30th August, 2022 Winston Churchill derisively called the Soviet Union a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. One may, with apologies to him, call the present-day Sri Lanka a paradox enveloped in an irony inside a muddle. What is happening in this country defies comprehension, and is even more puzzling than the […]