The fact that the JVP/NPP government rapidly caved in to the Sinhala Buddhist supremacists over the statue is a warning that ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — R&B star Akon has postponed a planned concert in Sri Lanka following angry protests over a music video he is in where scantily clad women dance in front of a ...

Sri Lankan police have removed an “unauthorized” Buddha statue near a prominent temple in the eastern district of Trincomalee, triggering angry reactions from hardline monks and raising fears of ...

At the heart of the fracas was a mundane operation by officials of the Coast Conservation Department (CCD) to demolish an illegally built beachfront café on land allegedly ‘owned’ by a well-known ...

Events in the eastern port city of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in recent weeks have heightened communal tensions throughout the country, as well as the danger of a return to civil war. The immediate ...

The Sri Lankan government has refused Akon’s request for a visa following violent protests — stones were thrown and cars smashed — over his appearance in a music video in which he frolics with ...

Portugal,In a historic and symbolic gesture, Rasika & Gayathrie Withanage, distinguished Sri Lankan residents living in Portugal, had requested a Buddha statue from the venerable Weduruwe Sri Upali ...

The statue of "fasting Buddha" sent by Pakistan to Sri Lanka has been put on display in one of the main temples of Colombo for the Vesak celebrations. Pakistan despatched, as a special gesture of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — R&B star Akon has postponed a planned concert in Sri Lanka following angry protests over a music video he is in where scantily clad women dance in front of a Buddha statue. Akon, ...