The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which has sole authority to print currency in the island nation, told AFP it had not released ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...

The 43-year-old woman from Guangzhou, capital city of southern China’s Guangdong province, set off alone for Sri Lanka’s ...

The left in Sri Lanka has a history of antipathy towards the “Bretton Woods Twins”(World Bank and IMF) The JVP led NPP began ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

The wife of a Sri Lankan cartoonist and political analyst who was forcibly disappeared over a decade ago has been joined by ...

The rhetoric of the Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD ... a leaf from the NPP book by refraining from exhibiting family members of candidates in public events. That said, it behoves President Dissanayake ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake ... 1968 into an ordinary family in a paddy-growing central part of Sri Lanka, Dissanayake was politically active from his school ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power ... that he will not contest the general election. The Rajapaksa family has similarly opted out. This leaves Sajith Premadasa ...

In a historic election, Sri Lankans have chosen Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... Coming from a non-political family, 19-year-old Dissanayake actively participated in the 1987-89 armed insurrection ...