When providing development aid, Sri Lanka will always be given priority, said the Chairman of the China Development Bank (CDB) Mr. Hu Huaibang when he called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the China World Hotel this morning. Several senior officials of the Bank, including Director General Mr. Zhang Linwu, accompanied Mr. Huaibang for the meeting. […]
China has pledged to provide further funding to develop Sri Lanka’s transport sector that includes a number of expressways, road networks and railway lines, including a new Colombo-Jaffna expressway. The agreement was one of several others reached during bilateral meetings between Sri Lanka and China that took place in Beijing this afternoon. […]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, commencing a four-day state visit, arrived in China this morning (May 27). President Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Wikaramasinghe Rajapaksa were warmly received at the Beijing Capital International Airport by China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Liu Zhenmin along with Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in China Mr. Ranjith Uyangoda. […]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa completes 43 years in politics today. He was 24 years, when first elected to Parliament as an SLFP member, from the Beliatta electorate in 1970. He was then the youngest Member of Parliament and represented the same electorate his father did from his first election in 1947 and several subsequent polls till […]
Mass Media and Information Ministry Secretary Dr. Charitha Herath Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday said his ministry has launched a special investigation into the death of Ven. Bowatte Indrarathana Thera, by self-immolation opposite the Dalada Maligawa. […]
The discipline instilled form Buddha;s teaching enabled our nation to achieve a great culture, bringing worldwide honor and respect to us as a nation states President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a Vesak message. The message : “On this occasion we give importance to alms and material offerings and the observance of the principles of Buddhism to […]
Economic Development Minster Basil Rajapaksa said on Wednesday (May 22) that only Sinhala Sinhala-Tamil-Muslim unity will bring victory and it is the duty of every one to work in harmony to safeguard this country which has been liberated from terrorism. Religious and ethnic disharmony will only bring defeat and suffering, he warned. […]
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s sole refinery, which was closed last week due to a delayed crude oil delivery, will resume operations in two days with an expected 1 million barrels of Omani crude, Oil Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said. The decades-old 50,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) refinery, which is configured to run […]