By Hafiz Marikar Manilal Fernando, the king pin of Sri Lanka football, will lead the Sri Lankan delegation to the FIFA Congress which will take place in South Africa commencing June 6, and will be one of the key officials in the World Cup tournament that kicks off soon after. The whole world plays football. [...]
By T.M.K. Samat The Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008 has found echoes in our little world of boxing. The inaugural Under-20 eight-fight duel contest between Mumbai and the ABA President’s team, scheduled for last Tuesday, failed to materialize because half the Mumbai team failed to secure Indian Defence Ministry security clearance in time. “Security clearance [...]
Ms. Stassani Jayawardena (right), daughter of Mrs. Priya Jayawardena, Honorary Consul for Sri Lanka in Spain receiving a replica of Galeon Andalucia from Spaniard Dr. Jose Maria O Kean Alonso who is associated with the project. She is the daughter of business magnate Don Harold Stassen Jayawardena.Galeon Andalucia, a replica of those Spanish warships of [...]
Defending champion Roger Federer beat Germany’s Julian Reister 6-4 6-0 6-4 to reach the last 16 of the French Open. The Swiss, targeting his second Roland Garros title, edged a tight opening set, blitzed the second, before winning in one hour 33 minutes. Federer, 28, will next face Stanislas Wawrinka or Italian Fabio Fognini. Fernando [...]
By Farouk Chothia While South Africa is witnessing a surge in national pride as it prepares to host the football World Cup, sport in the country is still heavily divided along racial lines. White South Africans were once keen followers of football, but this changed when racial segregation in the game ended in the 1980s. [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly Britain’s controversial TV channel, Channel 4 has once again claimed that the Sri Lanka Army engaged in acts tantamount to war crimes during the campaign against the LTTE. In a programme broadcast last Tuesday, reported on by the Channel 4 Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Miller, the programme claims that in excess of [...]
By Sumanasiri Liyanage My focus in this essay is not what happened in the past but what can be envisioned in the near future, particularly with regard to the national question in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan security forces comprehensively defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) one year ago. However, the transformation of [...]
McLaren’s Jenson Button narrowly beat Red Bull’s Mark Webber to fastest time in practice at the Turkish Grand Prix. The world champion’s lap of one minute 28.280 seconds was just 0.098secs ahead of the Australian, whose team-mate Sebastian Vettel was third fastest. Webber, the world championship leader, suffered a suspected engine failure towards the end [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema A veteran Tamil political leader known for his moderate stance in ethnic politics, TULF Leader V. Anandasangaree says that he is concerned about the plight of the Tamil people in the country given the outcome at the April general election. While Anandasangaree failed to secure a seat in parliament, the TNA [...]
A year after the 27-year Tamil insurgency was brought to a decisive end, Peter Popham looks at how China triumphed where the West failed. A year ago, one of the world’s most brutal and pitiless terrorist groups, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was hunted down and exterminated on a strip of beach in [...]
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