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The fifth round of Sri Lanka -Thailand Free Trade Agreement (SLTFTA) negotiations have commenced in Colombo this morning (June 26), the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The negotiations commenced aligning with President Ranil…

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has held a meeting with the President of the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Bai Yinzhan at their head office in Beijing on Monday (26). President Bai confirmed that CHEC will invest USD…

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said that China is ready to consolidate and expand its partnership with Sri Lanka. He gave the assurance when he met Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs M.U.M Ali Sabry in Beijing today. Sabry is…

“Will there be civil war?” a woman in Rostov asked the mercenaries who took over the city. “No, everything will be fine,” a fighter answered. The region surrounding Rostov is an important oil, gas and grains hub. In a series of hectic…

The report said Rajapaksa, then a powerful defense official, ordered the destruction of all police records older than five years after mass graves were discovered in the Matale district of central Sri Lanka in 2013.

“We’ve never had an accident like this,” James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” said on Thursday. Mr. Cameron, an expert in submersibles, has dived dozens of times to the ship’s deteriorating hulk and once plunged in a…

The five people who died on the Titan submersible were “true explorers”, the company who operated the dive said. The men “shared a distinct spirit of adventure”, OceanGate said in a statement, The five men died in what the…

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva has assured the institution’s commitment towards supporting Sri Lanka’s economic reforms. Following her meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe,…

The blast tore through the establishment at around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday on a busy street in Yinchuan, the capital of the traditionally Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, as people were gathering on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival…

"We welcome Sri Lanka’s initial steps towards addressing concerns around land returns, long-term detentions and corruption," said Rita French, UK Human Rights Ambassador.