East Expo 2011 exhibition was held in a grand scale in the Trincomalee town from the 23rd to 27th September. During this exhibition Sri Lank Navy conducted a water sport festival which included a performance display of Sri Lanka Navy men and boats in action in the beautiful beach near the Trincomalee Fort. Following are [...]
These days, if you plan to go shopping in Colombo I highly recommend you check the Factory Outlet fashion store that’s newly opened in Havelock Road, Colombo 05. My cousin who is a highly fashion conscious guy excitedly told me about this new store a few days back. I didn’t believe him when he told [...]
Now that the bloody war is over Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka are more open in displaying their cultural identity. They have begun to celebrate their festivals in a larger and grander scale than ever before. But when they are celebrating their festivals they also selfishly use busy public roads for the purpose and cause [...]
Here is a chance for you to contribute to our country in a big way with a small gesture. The Rotary Club of Sri Lanka is going to launch a Community Awareness Project for Accident Prevention in Sri Lanka. As part of this project they are going to print fatal accident photos in large hoardings [...]
A new improved and efficient, bi-directional type of pedestrian road crossing has being painted in Galle Road recently. Here is a photo of that zebra crossing. I saw this new pedestrian zebra crossing in Galle Road and other byroads in Colombo, Kollupitiya area. This pedestrian crossing is more broad than the normal zebra crossings [...]
The tallest building in Dehiwela City is now nearing completion. I went near the building today and took the opportunity to snap some photos for Sri Lanka News Online. This building is about 20 floors or so tall and thereby visible from the Dehiwela, Mount Lavinia beach and Dehiwela town over the other shorter buildings. [...]
I was very trilled yesterday when I got the opportunity to travel on the top deck or should I say the second floor, of a double Decker bus in Colombo yesterday. As far as I’m aware there are only three such double decker buses are currently operating in Sri Lanka. Due to this situation very [...]
“Why Middle East is burning ” is the theme of the keynote speech by veteran Sri Lankan journalist and author Latheef farook at the Founder’s Day of All Ceylon Muslim League Youth Fronts. Date: Thursday 12 May 2011 Time: at 4.30 PM Venue: KG 7 Elvitigala Flats, Elvitigala Mawatha.Colombo 8. The speech will be followed [...]
Saw this love cake and date cake side by side in a Perera & Sons outlet near Thunmulla Junction in Bambalapitiya. I wonder how “lovers” decide which to buy on a “date”. Both suits the occasion, so thinks me… A love cake and date cake sits side by site in a Perera And Sons [...]
I was traveling towards Colombo on the Colombo Kandy road yesterday. This Colombo Kandy highway which has only two lanes connects the two most important cities of Sri Lanka. So for more than hundred years it is officially the most important highway in Sri Lanka and therefore has the distinction of bearing the [...]
Seems like the Sri Lanka honeymoon with Hybrid vehicles is over. I received the following SMS Ada Derana News Alert on my Dialog powered mobile phone. It’s about new total tax regulations for Hybrid and other vehicles to Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary has informed that these new tax laws are effective from [...]
Hi all, It is a long time since I updated this news blog about Sri Lanka. But God willing, from today onwards I hope to regularly update this blog. The things I hope to write about on Sri Lanka News Online in future are as follows.. 1) Write firsthand reports and reviews about my and [...]
A 59 member cabinet with 18 new faces was sworn in by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the November 22, 2010 hopefully until the next general elections. The sworn ceremony was held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo following President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s swearing in for the second term as the executive President of the Social Democratic [...]
The title is a quite a mouthful. However as the nation of Sri Lanka tries to rise from the ashes of the long separatist war and 2004 Asian Tusnami like a phoenix it seems to have many friends. In the picture you see below is the longest bridge in Sri Lanka that was constructed and [...]
Do you want to experience attractions of Sri Lanka most tourists or expatriates to Sri Lanka will never see or hear? Then driving in Sri Lanka is one of them. For Visiting Foreigners, Tourist & Expats taking the wheel and doing a bit of self driving in Sri Lanka is a activity many try to [...]
The 2011 International Cricket Council’s (better known as ICC) One Day International Cricket World Cup is held for the tenth time. You will be earger to know about the match schedules so that you don’t miss the action. So Sri Lanka News Online brings you this special 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup match schedule for [...]
I hardly think I’ll find a better way to recommend my country Sri Lanka, than help them hear the views, experiences and observations of a foreign tourist who visited Sri Lanka and saw everything and was kind enough to write about it on his own on an online ezine electronic magazine…
The Colombo Stock Exchange gained a lot of attention recently when it became the best performing stock exchange in the world in for the year 2009 as it jumped 125.2 percent in market capitalization during that year. This Colombo Stock Exchange is still one of the best performing stock exchange in the entire world despite [...]
The island of Sri Lanka is located in the Indian Ocean. This island of Sri Lanka is the 25th largest island the world and the second largest island in the Indian Ocean after Madagascar discounting Java and Sumatra islands of Indonesia. If you see the world map Sri Lanka island is only a small speck [...]