| U.S. enhances foreign aid to combat Chinese expansion and ‘debt-trap’ loans |
President Trump, once sought to scuttle America’s use of foreign aid used to influence developing and poor nations along with securing national defenses and economic interests, is seeking to counter China’s growing geopolitical influence embracing a major expansion of foreign aid that will bankroll... |
| 19.10.2018 - 14:46 |
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| President Maithripala Sirisena accused India of plotting to assassinate him |
The usual Tuesday’s cabinet meeting held yesterday, 16th October, was very tense and unpleasant as the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Srisena and the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe were seen engaged in very heated arguments, when they were discussing the subject of awarding the East Terminal... |
| 17.10.2018 - 17:22 |
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| What happened to gold, worth billions of rupees, taken over by Army in Vanni? |
What happened to the billions of rupees worth of gold taken over by the Sri Lankan Army after the defeat of the LTTE in the Vanni region.
It was revealed that Sri Lankan Army was able to collect several billion rupees worth of gold after the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, at Kilinochchi, in the Van... |
| 20.10.2018 - 19:50 |
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| 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences - William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has given the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer for work on climate change and innovation.
Mr. Nordhaus was cited for his work on the implications of environmental factors, including climate change. Mr. Romer was cit... |
| 08.10.2018 - 18:28 |
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| Vijayakala M.P. - ARRESTED |
The Jaffna District UNP Parliamentarian and the former State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran has been arrested by the Organized Crime Prevention Division (OCPD) this morning (08).
This was regarding a controversial statement made by her recently, at a state function.
Police spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasek... |
| 08.10.2018 - 12:31 |
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| U.S. Vice President Declares: Sri Lanka southern port a military base for China |
The United States, at presidential level, has explicitly declared on Thursday, October 04 that the Hambantota Port built in Sri Lanka’s southern coast by the Chinese is designed to become a military base for the Chinese government.
American vice president Mike Spence in a major address on Chinese in... |
| 06.10.2018 - 18:17 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US National Correspondent |
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| Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize |
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts... |
| 05.10.2018 - 18:25 |
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| U.S. limits legal immigration: Restricts Green Card issuance |
The United States, under the Trump presidency, has already taken – and currently in the process of taking – sweeping changes to drastically limit awarding permanent residency status of already admitted legal immigrants – meaning the restriction of granting the Green Card to already eligible applican... |
| 05.10.2018 - 08:56 |
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Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US National Correspondent |
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| Nobel Prize For Chemistry - 2018 |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2018 with o... |
| 03.10.2018 - 17:50 |
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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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| 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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