Sri Lankan president seeks party win in parliamentary election to help him push his economic reforms
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary ...
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Sri Lanka Leader Seeks to Bolster Power With Parliamentary Vote
Anura Kumara Dissanayake called for early polls on the heels of his victory in the Sept. 21 presidential election, widely ...
Sri Lanka election: President Anura Kumara Dissanayake seeks increased parliamentary strength
Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, ...
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Snap Sri Lankan election poses test for new leader
Observers expect a multi-cornered contest in the general election, which may ultimately dent the chances of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, enacting ambitious ...
US judge blocks Louisiana from requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
The judge said the law was "discriminatory and coercive" because it would pressure children in public schools into adopting ...
FirstFT: Xi Jinping set to inaugurate South America’s ‘made in China’ megaport
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Food, Offering, Medicine, Political Symbol: What the Lotus Means in Sri Lanka
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...