Colombo heads O'Brien trio

Colombo District UPFA MP Thilanga Sumathipala recently received the honour of being the first Sri Lankan to be elected as a Board Member to the Executive Committee of the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), an international non profit, non ...

Imagine if hundreds of poor foreigners arrive in Colombo carrying their belongings in black bin bags and start sleeping in Victoria Park outside the houses in Colombo 7 and leaving bottles full of urine by the walls in the morning. It is happening ...

Sally Hickling I saw this dress and couldn't resist it. It's Artstyle by Rebecca Herring that I bought in Wanaka, but she is based in Christchurch. I like it because it's smart enough for work and I still look professional but it's comfortable and ...

THEY come here this week to take on Ireland's cricketers in two internationals, but the benighted land of Pakistan has little to cheer about these days. The geo-political fall-out of the Afghan Wars has drawn it into the grim battle between the West ...

The Queen's non-attendance at the November meeting is not, however, thought to be linked to sensitivities surrounding Sri Lanka's human rights record which has led to Canada's Prime Minister to boycott the CHOGM, according to Sky News. The Queen is ...

COLOMBO, Sept 25, 2012 (AFP) - A local drinking water supplier strongly defended its product Tuesday even as World Twenty20 organisers jettisoned their bottled water after several players went down with stomach flu. LAUGFS Aqua System said they had ...

The Guineas Spring Racing Festival gets under way at the Curragh next Saturday when the Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas is the highlight of an eight race card. There are a total of 19 entries for the Group One Classic, including the Johnny Murtagh ...

(VOV) - Delegates from the Vietnamese embassy and representative offices gathered together with members of the overseas Vietnamese (OV) community in London on May 18 to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh's birthday. They laid a wreath at New Zealand ...

Christchurch wants better food, better coffee, better wine and, most importantly, for a specialist whisky retailer, better whisky. Scottish expat Michael Fraser Milne opened the Whisky Galore shop after he saw a gap in the market for quality malt ...