International Affairs

Indian high Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu called on Sri Lankan construction sector for greater collaboration as India’s construction industry is expected to be USD 1 trillion by 2025

The Government has approved $4.6 billion worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in the first seven months of 2019, International Trade and Development Strategies Minister Malik Samarawickrama told Parliament yesterday.

Macao has relaxed the travel alert on Sri Lanka issued following the Easter Sunday attacks.

පාකිස්තාන අන්තර්ජාතික ගුවන් සමාගමකට කල්බදු ක්‍රමය යටතේ ලබා දී තිබූ ගුවන් යානයක ගිවිසුම් කාලය අවසන් වී මාස හයක් ගත වී ඇතත් ලැබිය යුතු කුලිය වූ රුපියල් කෝටි තිස්හතරක (34765020) මුදල මෙතෙක් ලැබී නැත.

The Philippines and Sri Lanka are set to enhance military cooperation through the development of bilateral training and diplomacy to fight the threats of insurgency, the Manila Bulletin reported.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria will re-examine the closure of her embassy in Colombo in 2017, in view of the important relationship the country has with Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is preparing to embrace new Denmark technology in flood and drainage management infrastructure essential to reduce the impact of future floods in the catchment of the Colombo Water Basin.

Sri Lanka and Australia have re-dedicated themselves to counter people smuggling and discussed in detail avenues for strengthening cooperation to address the recent escalation of the number of people-smuggling ventures from Sri Lanka to Australia since May, 2019, the Foreign Ministry said today.

කොළඹ වරායේ නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය ඉන්දියාවට සහ ජපානය හවුල් වූ සමාගමකට විකුණා දැමීමේ උත්සාහයක් පවතින බව වරාය වෘත්තීය සමිති චෝදනා කරයි.

පසුගිය යුද සමයේදී මන්නාරම් ප්‍රදේශයේ සිට ඉන්දියාවේ තමිල්නාඩු ප්‍රදේශයට මුහුදු මාර්ගයෙන් සංක්‍රමණය වූ සරණාගතයන් 27දෙනෙකු නැවත මෙරටට ගෙන්වූ බව නැවත පදිංචි කිරීමේ අමාත්‍යාංශය සඳහන් කරයි.

UNDP Resident Representative Robert Juhkam made a courtesy call on Science, Technology and Research Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe on Tuesday. The two discussed ongoing initiatives between UNDP Sri Lanka and the Ministry, including the Citra Social Innovation Lab, a joint initiative championed by the Science, Technology and Research Ministry.

A heated exchange of words had reportedly broken out between delegates from Pakistan and India at an event held in Colombo yesterday.

Sri Lanka says it remains committed to achieve tangible results in humanitarian disarmament.

The report probing telephone records of Easter Sunday bombers – examined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – has been submitted to the CID which will continue further investigations, the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court was informed yesterday.

The Election Commission (EC) is expected to give the green light for election observers from the Commonwealth and European Union to oversee the presidential elections.

Sri Lanka has been declared by the WHO as the fifth South East Asian country to eradicate measles, the Health Ministry spokesman said.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka (AMCHAM) urged the Government of Sri Lanka to consider approving the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact.

Sri Lanka has sought expertise in preventing violent extremism (PVE) from the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), in the post Easter Sunday scenario where violent extremism has become the biggest threat to national security.