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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 685


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Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 06:30
By Tharany Rajasingham
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets against Pakistan in the final match of Asia Cup 2014 breaking Sri Lanka’s dry.....Read More ...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 18:26
A major search and rescue operation is underway after a Boeing 777 jet vanished over the South China Sea with.....Read More ...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 15:28
By K.T.Rajasingham
The current Vice Chancellor Prof Vasanthy Arasaratnam has polled a thumping 24 votes in the Vice.....Read More ...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 08:56
By Daya Gamage - Asian Tribune US...
At a time Sri Lanka is battling the rise of 'Global Diplomatic Insurgency', well replenished by the former.....Read More ...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 08:30
Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239.....Read More ...
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 20:39
President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held bilateral discussions at the.....Read More ...
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 08:17
By Daya Gamage - Asian Tribune...
"It is important to emphasize that the mere existence of credible allegations that civilians were killed or.....Read More ...

Latest Stories

Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 13:46
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Being a minority is never a pleasant experience for most people in our globe unless one is part of a dominant or domineering group. But even in the latter case when a minority is dominating a majority – as it has happened throughout history with colonial enterprises, to protect its privileged status – it formulates laws that are highly dehumanizing and discriminatory, which can create serious.....Read More...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 07:24
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London…
It was reported this week in the media that some British firms had taken the toilet habits of certain foreign workers, especially from the continental Europe, quite seriously, having faced with a series of damages to the lavatory properties, especially where the posterior receives a frosty reception even in the best of times. The trouble is that these are not the best of times as far as.....Read More...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 06:11
By Swapna Majumdar, Citizen News Service – CNS
Two thirds of countries globally now have laws against domestic violence with several significant transformations in legal frameworks in Asia and the Pacific. This significant shift over the last decade has not only led 15 countries in East Asia and the Pacific to enact domestic violence laws but six Asian countries have taken the important step of outlawing rape within marriage. “Violence.....Read More...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 05:59
The Rajasthan Association of North America, NY (RANA) is hosting its Fourth Rajasthani International Convention from July 3 to July 6 at the Islandia Marriott Long Island, New York. The President of RANA, Dr. Narendra Hadpawat is the convener of the convention along with three co-conveners – Naveen C Shah, Dr. Shashi Shah, Ravi Lashkery and Animesh Goenka. RANA is an elite Indian organization.....Read More...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 05:56
By S.H.Moulana - Riyadh
Sri Lanka’s cricket team beat Pakistan in the Asian Cup final in Dhaka on Saturday. Sri Lanka was the only unbeaten team in the run up to the final, while the host Bangladesh remained win less. This is Sri Lanka’s fifth win in the ‘Asian Derby’ since 1985. India also has won a similar number while Pakistan has won it twice. Sri Lanka’s superb all round performance of disciplined bowling,.....Read More...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 05:45
The recently published study in The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the most comprehensive analysis of over one million people of Sri Lankan-origin living outside of their homeland. A joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore and Editions Didier Millet, the Encyclopedia is a multi-year project with well over fifty.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 12:22
A Malaysian court convicted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy and sentenced him to five years in prison on Friday. Three judges at the Court of Appeal unanimously voted to overturn Anwar's acquittal two years ago. The former deputy prime minister, who was previously jailed for six years on sodomy and corruption charges, will not be jailed immediately as his lawyers won a stay of the.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 08:45
Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, has said "the draft resolution on Sri Lanka deposited with the Human Rights Council by a core group comprising - the USA, UK, Mauritius, Montenegro and Macedonia, violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka, is highly intrusive in nature and is in breach of the sovereignty of the Sri Lankan people and.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 08:34
Six Jaffna Academics including one from the States is vying for the Jaffna University Vice Chancellor post, Jaffna University circles revealed. A member of the University Council privy to the developments informed that the applicants include the current VC Prof Vasanthy Arasaratnam, Dr P. Alvapillai, Head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Dr S Gunapalan Head of the Department of.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 08:13
By Bandu de Silva
My recent article “What the Chinese Want: A Prelude to understanding China’s growing relations with Sri Lanka” I might have appeared a skimpily tailored because its scope was confined to addressing a question which had become urgent. That was in consideration of views being expressed that there were ulterior motives behind expansion of Chinese infrastructure building and investment activities in.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 07:49
By Tharany Rajasingham M.Sc
March 8th marks international women’s day, as a woman I am not sure whether I should be happy or saddened by the fact that we have been allocated a special day to praise and glorify our gender and place in this society. As Muhammad Ali Jinnah stated,< it is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 07:39
By Raj Gonsalkorale
The very constructive counter resolution on Sri Lanka introduced by eleven US Senators under pins the basic thrust of the US Foreign Relations Committee report on Sri Lanka 4 years ago when its chairman, the current Secretary of State, John Kerry cautioned against precipitative action that would lose Sri Lanka to the US and the West and move it to other political orbits. Of course Kerry now.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 07:30
By S.H.Moulana - Riyadh
I am reading with great interest how the Western media is presenting the Ukraine issue. While reading it, surprisingly, I am reminded of that great hit number of the popular British singer, Phil Collins ‘The both sides of the story’. Margaret Thatcher of Britain was hailed as 'Iron Lady' when she occupied the Falkland Islands in the backyard of Argentina by the Western media but Putin became a '.....Read More...
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 07:14
By Oken Jeet Sandham
Newly appointed President of the Nagaland Unit of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Imtilemba Sangtam, MLA, has called upon the party’s rank and file to unitedly work to strengthen the party. In a felicitation program held here at State NCP office Conference Hall today, many party leaders lauded Imtilemba Sangtam on becoming the new president of the State NCP. In his maiden address to the party.....Read More...
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