The Government will study Sime Darby Group Bhd’s request to bring in workers from Sri Lanka to work in the plantation sector, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Themal Ellawala ’17, a psychology major at Clark University, returned to Sri Lanka this summer to research how culture, gender norms and stigma affect non-heterosexuals in the island nation where he grew up.

The Sri Lanka government is planning to close down all 31 camps of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Jaffna district of the Northern Province and complete resettlement of 971 families by August 15.

Japan’s largest bank Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ will fund a $ 1 billion project to build the third phase of the central expressway and an elevated road connecting the Kelaniya Bridge to Rajagiriya.

The United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) that came to power one year ago pledged to regain the GSP Plus trade concessions lost during the Rajapaksa regime. As of now, even though several discussions have taken place with delegations from both parties paying courtesy visits to their counterparts, the battlefront still seems idle in the case of physically bringing down the concessions.