| Campaigns of Gotabaya Rajapaksa & Sajith Premadasa |
This is the election week in Sri Lanka and everyone is trying to guess the winner ahead of polls. Though there are over 30 contestants, only two have come under serious consideration. The Gotabaya Rajapaksa Camp is doing their best to run a clean campaign and to usher in a new political culture. The... |
| 12.11.2019 - 14:02 |
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By Shivanthi Ranasinghe |
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| MCC, ACSA, SOFA with US incompatible with international law |
Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA), the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) are agreements integral to US national security and self-defense strategies, whose goal is “American Self-Preservation,” an ideology incompatible with the Charter of the Uni... |
| 09.11.2019 - 10:24 |
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By Tamara Kunanayakam, -Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva |
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| Pak Army snubs Premier Imran Khan |
Whose writ runs in Pakistan? This question has been emphatically answered by the GHQ, setting at rest any lingering doubts. The assertion is a rare public snub by the all-powerful military to the ‘selected’ Prime Minister Imran Khan. And it came in the context of Kartarpur corridor – a project pu... |
| 08.11.2019 - 04:50 |
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By M Rama Rao |
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| Gotabaya campaign vacillates on US- Sri Lanka MCC Pact |
The premier campaign stalwarts of Sri Lanka’s opposition presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a media briefing on Wednesday, November 6 in Colombo, Sri Lanka – ten days before the nationwide polls – refrained from confidently declaring that the so called controversial U.S.-Sri Lanka Millenni... |
| 07.11.2019 - 08:21 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US Bureau Report |
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| Asia Reemerges as the Dominant Economic Power in the World |
Asia, after having been accorded the dubious distinction of being the poorest continent in the 1960s, has within a very short space of time, transformed itself in to the economic powerhouse of the world and is achieving prosperity at a dizzying pace. This rapid rise has caught the West off balance a... |
| 03.11.2019 - 05:21 |
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By Dr Palitha Kohona |
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| Make Reparations Secure UN Global Goals and Eradicate Poverty |
Dealing with numbers can take a toll and might make one seek fulfillment in other spheres. No wonder the most influential poet of the last Century penned ‘The Waste Land’ in 1922 when he was dutifully employed with the foreign transactions department of Lloyd’s, an austere English bank in London.
A... |
| 02.11.2019 - 19:08 |
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By Manish Uprety F.R.A.S.* and Jainendra Karn ** |
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| The candidate who can assure Sri Lanka’s unitary status |
Both presidential candidates Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa had pledged to protect the unitary status of the country. With both making the same promise, the challenge is before the voter as to which candidate to vote for, when both are pledging the same.
As it is easy to make any promise, t... |
| 27.10.2019 - 21:21 |
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By Shivanthi Ranasinghe |
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| Sri Lanka-ACSA: State Dept. ‘miscalculation’ over Gen. Shavendra issue |
Someone in American diplomatic apparatus made a mistake: It sounds like the South Asia Bureau of the U.S. Department of State unilaterally acted disregarding the advice of the American Embassy in Colombo which took a position that the appointment of General Shavendra Silva as the Commander of Army w... |
| 25.10.2019 - 20:26 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US Bureau Analysis |
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| PSC Blamed State Intelligence Service For Easter Sunday Carnage |
The Parliamentary Select Committee which probed the Easter Sunday carnage, which was released yesterday (23rd October) held the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Nilantha Jayawardena should bear the “greatest responsibility” over preventing the Easter attacks which enabled terrorists to kill... |
| 24.10.2019 - 04:31 |
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| Gotabaya Law Suit: Immunity prevents probing |
The extra-judicial killing and crimes against humanity law suit filed against Sri Lanka’s former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, alleging his association with the brutal killing of an out-spoken journalist Lasantha Wickrematunga in January 2009, under the US federal Alien Tort Statute and the... |
| 23.10.2019 - 12:53 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Legal Analysis |
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| What more you can ask in Khashoggi case, my dear Watsons? |
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi refuses to fade away from headlines; human rights champions are pedalling their perceived wisdom even as Turkey refuses to come up front with its findings into the two-year old assassination of the author – columnist of Washington Post. The likes of Agnes Callamard in the meanw... |
| 22.10.2019 - 15:11 |
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By K T Rajasingham |
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| Sri Lanka – Foreign Policy Options for a New Administration |
Applicable universally, this would be a good starting point when examining Sri Lanka's foreign policy options as the presidential candidates (realistically, only two have a credible opportunity of success) and their advisers mull their choices once awarded the sinecure (the 19th amendment to the Con... |
| 18.10.2019 - 11:39 |
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By Dr Palitha Kohona - Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Former Foreign Secretary. |
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| US- Lanka ’07 ACSA: Gota says ‘It helped Sri Lanka’, U.S. says ‘It helped them’ |
At a time Sri Lankan nation is engulfed in a serious debate whether the United States’ military could possibly have a foothold in Sri Lanka with the July 2017-signing of the Acquisition and Cross Services Agreement (ACSA) and the impending settlement of modalities of the Status of Forces Agreement (... |
| 17.10.2019 - 17:52 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Media Commentary |
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| What Modi- Xi Meet Does Not Tell About The Chinese And Indian Tango? |
Informal meets are a rarity between two formal regional powers, more so between two tea-drinking nations that comprise over 37% of the human population. The Modi-Xi informal meet in Mamallapuram falls into the very category. What and where shall it lead to is anybody’s guess?
The US president Donald... |
| 13.10.2019 - 05:19 |
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By Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. and Dr. Yiyong Liang |
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| Nobel Peace Prize 2019: Ethiopian Prime Minister Becomes the 100th Recipient |
Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday for being instrumental in achieving peace and international cooperation.
Mr Ahmed, 43, the youngest head of state in Africa, became the surprising winner owing to bringing... |
| 12.10.2019 - 12:26 |
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Hemnatha Yapa Abeywardena writes from London… |
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| Health Card Of Gotabaya - A Matter Of Great Serious Concern |
One of the front runners in the Sri Lanka Presidential Election is Gotabaya Rajapaksa (70), but it is suspected that his health condition is not that all good for him to hold a most strenuous and demanding position, such as the Executive President of Sri Lanka – a position which would demand great... |
| 11.10.2019 - 12:51 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Geopolitics of Sri Lanka Presidential election |
The Sri Lanka’s Presidential election is now scheduled on November 16. This will be held under the 19 Amendment to the Constitution, where the President’s term is curtailed to five years, while the Prime Minister has sway over the affairs of the country. -
35 candidates are vying to become the nex... |
| 10.10.2019 - 06:06 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Asim Umar, Al-Qaeda Chief in the Indian Subcontinent Killed |
The leader of Al-Qaeda's South Asian branch was killed in a US-Afghan joint raid in southern Afghanistan last month, Afghan officials confirmed Tuesday, October 8.
Asim Umar, who led Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) from its inception in 2014, was killed during a September 23 raid on a Tal... |
| 09.10.2019 - 09:57 |
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| President Sirisena: Going, going -and to be gone? |
Sri Lanka’s Presidential elections are now due on 16 November. 35 candidates are vying for Presidency of Sri Lanka in this crucial election-except that the incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena has not files his nominations. This shows that President Sirisena will not become the President of Sri... |
| 08.10.2019 - 06:34 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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