The health ministry says 2,500 oral cancer patients are newly diagnosed every year.

UPFA Parliamentarian Geetha Kumarasinghe said over 20 million people attended the Joint Opposition’s Paada Yatra.

A French charity urged Sri Lanka’s government on Thursday to hold a credible investigation into the killing a decade ago of 17 of its staff.

India’s Sagar Mala (garland around the sea) port modernisation project includes a proposed transshipment port on the southern coast of India expected to directly compete with the Colombo harbour, and in order to secure its position as a regional shipping hub, Sri Lanka should take strategic steps such as developing economic zones and introducing low tariffs while consolidating its economic ties with China, an international transshipment expert said on Tuesday.

If there is a bright spot in Sri Lanka and China’s multi-billion dollar Hambantota debacle it’s that nobody has given up on it yet.

A French national living in Matara was severely assaulted by a group of men under the influence on Tuesday night. The victim is, 60-year-old Dominique Cardinaud, living in Sri Lanka for the last six years in a residence in Paramulla, Matara. “On Tuesday night, at around 8 p.m. Cardinaud was disturbed by a loud group of drunk men who had just frequented the bar next door,”related a close friend of Cardinaud who is currently undergoing surgery for his eye at the Matara General Hospital.