Tagged: Ranil Wickremesinghe

2nd November 2018

Editorial: Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Coup and the Dragon

The small South Asian island nation is burning, protests are turning ugly, people are on the streets a Prime Minister is sacked from his office. No this isn’t a coup! It is a Constitutional...

Sri Lanka / World Daily

30th October 2018

PM was sacked over assassination plot :Sri Lankan President Sirisena

Sri Lanka’s president said on Sunday that the main reason he decided to sack his prime minister was the alleged involvement of a Cabinet minister in a plot to assassinate him. In a televised address to...

South Asia / Sri Lanka / World Daily

2nd July 2018

Rajapaksa dismisses allegations of Chinese funding in polls

Colombo Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today dismissed a media report that claimed China had funded his unsuccessful 2015 presidential re-run. “No contribution was made by China to my 2015 presidential election campaign,” Rajapaksa...