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| James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine |
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine were awarded jointly to Japan’s Tasuku Honjo and U.S. national James P. Allison on Monday “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”
The Institute -- 50 professors at the Stockholm facility -- chose the winners of the prize... |
| 01.10.2018 - 17:15 |
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| President Sirisena at UN: No foreign power should dictate terms to Sri Lanka |
President of Sri Lanka Maitripala Sirisena addressing the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25 while categorically saying that, “as an independent nation, Sri Lanka rejects any foreign power exerting influence on us” and further asserting that the internati... |
| 27.09.2018 - 18:53 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Diplomatic Note |
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| Trump espouses sovereignty of nations: Rejects global agendas dominating them |
President of the United States Donald Trump continuously used and stressed the importance of nations protecting their sovereignty, and avoiding getting succumbed to global agendas in his address before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, September 25 stressing that America will protect its independe... |
| 26.09.2018 - 12:16 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US National Correspondent |
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| Maldives: Opposition Presidential Candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih Claims Victory |
Voters in Maldives, the isolated scattering of islands, appeared to have ousted the country’s autocratic president Abdulla Yameen , with votes still being tallied, local news organizations reported that Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the opposition candidate, had beaten President Abdulla Yameen.
Mr. Solih w... |
| 24.09.2018 - 11:28 |
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| President Srisena Should Not Raise Sri Lanka’s Human Right Issues In The UNGA |
Over the years, having successfully resisted the efforts of unfriendly Western Countries to bring Sri Lanka’s human rights record before the United Nations General Assembly, especially since 2009, it would be a massive folly now for the President Maithripala Srisena to raise it before the UNGA, volu... |
| 22.09.2018 - 19:59 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| U.S. believes staying in UNHRC abdication of sovereignty: Whither Sri Lanka? |
The Trump administration in the United States, in withdrawing from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Commission last June, has given a signal to a South Asian nation – Sri Lanka – once during the previous Obama administration’s liberal-controlled state department headed by its secretary Hillary Clint... |
| 21.09.2018 - 05:00 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune U.S. Political Note |
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| Executive Order Makes Triple Talaq An Offence |
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet of India today approved an executive order on the triple talaq ordinance to make instant triple talaq an offence.’
The cabinet approval for enacting the law by an executive order comes nearly 10 months after the NDA government first moved a bill in Parliament.
The amend... |
| 19.09.2018 - 16:21 |
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| Build MGR Memorial at Kandy: MGR grandson tells Ranil |
Kumar Rajendran, MGR’s grandson and Chennai-based advocate, has appealed to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe to build a suitable memorial for former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MG Ramachandran in his city of birth – Kandy in Sri Lanka.
Rajendran was part of a high-level delegation fro... |
| 19.09.2018 - 13:36 |
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| To the West: LTTE rebellion & Tamil issues interconnected |
Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa declared September 12 in New Delhi in a special address titled “Indo-Sri Lanka Relations: The Way Forward”, the fight against the LTTE that ended in 2009 cannot be dubbed an "ethnic war", asserting the military action was not directed against the Tamil c... |
| 15.09.2018 - 07:26 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Analysis |
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| Sri Lankan Army Did Not Fight The Tamils but only Against The LTTE - Mahinda |
Mahinda Rajapaksa. the former Sri Lankan president said here on Wednesday (12th September) the fight against the LTTE that ended in 2009 cannot be called an "ethnic war", asserting that the military action was not directed against the Tamil community.
“We did not wage an ethnic war. The military ac... |
| 13.09.2018 - 14:37 |
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| Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Rajapaksa avoid to comment |
Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday refused to comment on the recommendation made by the Tamil Nadu cabinet to release all the seven convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. |
| 11.09.2018 - 17:52 |
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| Cambodia’s opposition leader Kem Sokha released from Prison to home detention |
The former leader of a disbanded Cambodian opposition party was released from jail and placed on house arrest
on 10th September, Monday – three days before the European Parliament plans to discuss his case.
Kem Sokha, 65, who led the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) before it was shut down in... |
| 11.09.2018 - 09:37 |
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| MGR’s 101st Birth Anniversary Celebrations in Kandy & Jaffna – Minister Radhakrishnan |
Along with the State Minister of Education S.V. Radhakrishnan, the Kandyan Tamil Traders Association has decided to celebrate ‘M.G.Ramachandran’s 101st birth anniversary in Kandy, on the 16th of this month.
M.G. Ramachandran a ‘centenarian’, who lives in the hearts of millions of Tamils all over th... |
| 09.09.2018 - 17:36 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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