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Sand is dredged from the sea and sprayed during reclamation at a Chinese investment 'Colombo Port City' in Colombo February 20, 2015. Sri Lanka is reconsidering the outright transfer of a parcel of land to China under a $1.5 billion port city deal signed by a previous government, the energy minister said, amid concerns it could be used for Chinese naval activity. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte (SRI LANKA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS MARITIME)

Reviving a partnership

The Maithripala Sirisena government drops all its objections to the China-funded Colombo port city project conceived by the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa
T. RAMAKRISHNAN in Colombo
(FILES) In this file picture taken on April 29, 2009 Displaced Sri Lankan Tamil civilians watch as unseen French and British Foreign Ministers, Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband arrive at Kadirgamh camp in Chettikulam, north Sri Lanka. A long-awaited UN report on September 16, 2015 detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and said the country needed international help to probe the crimes to enable reconciliation. AFP PHOTO/PEDRO UGARTE

For a credible mechanism

The report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka calls for a hybrid mechanism involving in
T. RAMAKRISHNAN in Colombo

Clear message

The United National Party’s victory in the seventh general elections symbolises voters’ desire for peace and reconciliation and an end to divisive pol
T. Ramakrishnan IN colombo
Sri Lanka’s main opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena (C), opposition United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe (L), and Sri Lanka’s former president Chandrika Kumaratunga (R) speak during a ceremony after signing a pledge supporting a common opposition presidential candidate to topple current president Mahinda Rajapakse, in Colombo on December 1, 2014. Kumaratunga is at odds with Rajapakse and is backing the main opposition in the January 8, 2015 presidential elections to scrap the executive presidential system and revert the country to a parliamentary democracy that existed till 1978. AFP PHOTO/ Ishara S. KODIKARA

First things first

The Maithripala Sirisena-Ranil Wickremesinghe government marks its 100 days in office by getting the Constitution Amendment Bill, which disallows unil
T. RAMAKRISHNAN in Colombo
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