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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 1446


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Friday, April 8, 2016 - 08:56
China and Sri Lanka pledged to further push forward their strategic cooperative partnership and inked a.....Read More ...
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Monday, April 4, 2016 - 06:13
By S.H.Moulana
A magnificent victory for West Indies and one astounding feat ! For captain Sammy , who can now doubt his.....Read More ...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 09:13
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Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that he would not quit politics even if his entire family is.....Read More ...
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Latest Stories

Friday, April 8, 2016 - 08:37
By Major General (Retd.) Lalin Fernando
‘Hurrah for the Mary, Hurrah for the lamb, Hurrah for the Royalists who passed the buck to Trinity, drowning out the battle cry of free education’(with apologies to the version of the US civil war song ‘Battle cry for Freedom’ that used to be sung at cricket matches by some schools.) A child in the Kuliyapitiya area was refused entry into a school. Apparently his father or mother or both were.....Read More...
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 08:31
Indian Government’s reaction to the Pak claim of arresting an Indian spy was, to say the least, so mild that it sounded almost like an apology. It amounted to tacit acceptance of the fiction that Pakistan has been hawking for long—without any success—that India is behind the unrest in Balochistan and other places in the land of the pure. Without as much as waiting for details from his own.....Read More...
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 08:18
By Dickson Hemantha - Maryland, USA
Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed, famously known as A.C.S.Hameed, fondly known among his friends as Shahul, was the longest serving Minister of Foreign Affairs with considerably a long public life. Hailing from a highly reputable and educated family in Kurugoda, Akurana, he started his education at St.Anthony's, Katugastota and later joined Zahira College, Matale. This future Foreign Minister, a clean.....Read More...
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 08:03
World’s largest wastewater service firm is looking to enter Sri Lanka and help modernize the country’s disposal methods. “We are the single largest wastewater management company in the world, well-known for green-tech, microbiology, biotech and nanotech innovations” said Devan Iyavoo (Manager - Indah Water Konsortium (IWK), Malaysia) on 05 April in Colombo. IWK’s Iyavoo, a member of the.....Read More...
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 07:55
By Dr. Abdul Ruff
Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit said that according to him the peace process between India and Pakistan at present stands suspended. Basit added: "There shouldn’t be any doubt that Pakistan wants to have a normal & peaceful relationship with India. We all are aware of those who seek to create unrest in Pakistan and destabilize it are bound to fail as the people of.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 23:22
Anunayaka Thera of the Asgiriya Chapter Ven. Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Thera was appointed as the 22nd Mahanayake of the Asgiriya Chapter of the Siyam Nikaya today. The post of Mahanayake of the Asgiriya chapter fell vacant following the demise of the most venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Maha Nayake Thera. The election of the new Mahanayake Thera of the Asgiriya Chapter was held this.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 22:24
Pakistan's first Textile Sector Exhibition TeXpo 2016 was inaugurated this morning by Federal Minister of Commerce Pakistan Eng Khurram Dastgir Khan, along with the Sri Lankan Minister for Commerce and Industry Rishad Bathiudeen, CE Trade Development Authority of Pakistan S.M. Muneer & Secretary TDAP Rabiya Javeri Agha. The TeXpo 2016 arranged by the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:57
By Raj Gonsalkorale
Volte faces are not always welcome. However, this one by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe and the Yahapalanaya government is very welcome. Having criticized Mahinda Rajapakse for his leanings towards China, and condemned virtually every project funded with Chinese assistance, and making that criticism one of the principal campaign planks during the Presidential and general elections in 2015,.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:50
Members of the European Burma Network (EBN) call upon the new government of Burma to act swiftly to start to address the Rohingya crisis in Burma/Myanmar. The past five years have seen a dramatic escalation of human rights abuses, repression, discrimination and violence against the Rohingya. Around 150,000 people have been displaced and are living in camps which have been described by senior.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:44
A 15-member Sri Lankan business delegation led by Minister for Commerce and Industry Rishad Bathiudeen left for Pakistan yesterday for a 4 day official visit on the invitation of his Pakistani counterpart Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan. The Sri Lankan delegation, comprising of top textile and business groups, leading textile chain stores, wholesale dealers, importers of fabric as well as.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:35
By Atul Cowshish - Syndicate Features
If ever there was any doubt that sycophancy trumps everything else in Indian politics, it should have been removed when one of the top leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Venkaiah Naidu, repeated what he had first said in August last year: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is a ‘God’s gift to India’. For good measure Naidu, a former BJP president, had added that the 21st century ‘God’.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:26
Special Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State Office of Global Criminal Justice Todd Buchwald and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Manpreet Anand (DAS) concluded a several-day visit to Sri Lanka, during which they met with government and political leaders and civil society from across the country to hear their thoughts on reconciliation. “The United.....Read More...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:08
By Dr Nalin Abeysekera & Deepal Bataduwaarchchi
It is absolutely vital that citizens of a country gain some knowledge on the important Macro variables of a country. This should not only be limited to those who follow subjects in Economics stream, be it the students of any other discipline or average person of a country it is imperative that they have some idea of Macro Economic factors like, annual growth rate of a country, income per capita,.....Read More...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 08:14
By Atul Cowshish - Syndicate Features
Before his prolonged spell of Good Time turned into Bad Time, the ‘king’ flew away to the safety of England, leaving his creditors and politicians fuming with anger mixed with embarrassment. Thousands of his ex-employees were in a state of utter shock because the chance of receiving their unpaid salaries had receded further with Vijay Mallya leaving the country. Calling himself an ‘international.....Read More...
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