Opinion

Formalising and regulating the deployment of ex-soldiers as mercenaries could address economic, social and geopolitical challenges : Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath recently told Parliament that 59 Sri Lankans …

The regular policymaker-profile has changed after the ascension of this Government. There is no doubt that a cohort of administrators and policymakers hitherto left out of the loop when it …

President Donald Trump, at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu in Washington, DC, dropped a bombshell proposal that the United States would take over the war-ruined …

The transformation of the People’s Republic of China from being a Third World country up to 1978, to being a First World country within 47 years has inspired awe in …

Change comes from within not from the outside. When Sri Lankans voted in a new Government with an unprecedented mandate, they aspired to see a better country with dignified lives. …

Sri Lanka’s harbour woes surface from time to time. The latest bout is, however, more disconcerting than it was earlier. The Port facilities have been in demand latterly, but the …

When a fellow Governing Council Member of the Marga Institute suggested that I represent our organisation at the 2nd Global South Think Tank Conference in Nanjing, China, I did not …

The recent reports that Sri Lanka has decided to revoke a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with India’s Adani Group has prompted considerable debate, highlighting the challenges that the nation’s …

The amount or tracts — maudlin poetry even — appearing in the local media after the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President, claiming that people will ‘survive’, are bizarre. …

Last year, when it became evident that Anura Kumara Dissanayake would emerge as a potential President, there were two questions the National People’s Power (NPP) had to address. Both questions …