SEE …. LISTEN …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2e1xOcGpDc
Port City Colombo 2014-2040 Clarified
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Hugh Karunanayake: A Pioneer for Ecumenical Ceylonese Studies in the Sydney Circuit
“Our First Chairman” — being the lead essay in the latest CEYLANKAN published in 2020
Hugh Karunanayake was elected Chairman of our Society at the public meeting held on 28th February 1998. It was Hugh together with his friend Chris Puttock who took the original initiative to form the Society. The foundation meeting held in the evening of 30th August 1997, was at his residence and it led to the eventual formation of the Society.
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Coronavirus: A Chinese Hand praises the China ‘Hand’
Ji Si, in China.ORG, 12 March 2020,http://”http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2020-03/12/content_75805339.htm with this title Facing up to the test of our times”””
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Xi Jinping at its core, has led the nation in fighting a “people’s war” against the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The situation is now showing signs of improvement.
President Xi Jinping visits Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, March 10, 2020 … Xinhua
The Yellow Peril! Coronavirus sparks an Aged Refrain
Palitha Kohona, in Indepthnews, March 2020, with this title “CORVID 19 – The Insatiable Urge to Bash China Surfaces Again!
The writer is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary.
Historically, the West has always had an equivocal attitude towards China, not to mention the non-white world. A fear, a suspicion, a fascination, an uncertainty, a sense of superiority and even a loathing reserved for an undeserving competitor pervaded its dealings.
Passengers wearing face masks and disposable ponchos get their passports checked at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. UN News/Jing Zhang
USA challenges ICC Ruling
Daya Gamage, in Asian Tribune, 7 March 2020, with this title “U.S. says: Global War Crimes Probe on U.S. Violates Sovereignty”
The Government of the United States strongly consider the International Criminal Court ruling on Thursday, March 05 that its chief prosecutor could open an investigation into allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan by the U.S. military and the CIA as an infringement of the sovereignty of the U.S.
Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, center, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, last year.
Defeating the Coronavirus at the Individual Level: Simple Steps
ONE: Peter Lee Goodchild’s Advice …… IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – CORONAVIRUS
Last evening dining out with friends, one of their uncles, who’s graduated with a master’s degree and who worked in Shenzhen Hospital (Guangdong Province, China) sent him the following notes on Coronavirus for guidance.
Moving Beyond the Richmond-Mahinda Cricket Team on Their 50th Anniversary Encounter in 1955: Personal Extensions
Michael Roberts
copy provided by Nandasiri Jasentuliyanna
While this classic photograph of an all-important event in Galle will be manna from heaven for those attached to the two schools, it evokes important memories of a personal kind in my reflections on the past.
Sri Lankan Parliament dissolved
Courtesy of Panduka Senanayake
The Agars of De La Salle College hit the Headlines
Michael Roberts
In early February 2020 Wes Agar of the Adelaide Strikers and the South Australian Sheffield Shield side was named the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year at the Annual Australian Cricket Awards. About ten days later, on 21 February 2020, his elder brother Ashton Agar produced a hat-trick in a five-for haul that led to the demolition of the South African side in a T20 match at Johannesburg.
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The Sins of the Swiss Embassy: An Expose
Tamara Kunanayakam, in The Island, 3 March 2020, with this title “
“If you know the enemy and know yourself,you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Sun Tzu, The Art War, 5th Century BC
The recent dramatic events involving the Swiss Embassy came as a surprise to most Sri Lankans. Just as the large majority was looking ahead to a new era with a President they had just elected, a non politician with a simple lifestyle, yet determined, who they believed would be capable of returning to their lives, a sense of security, peace, economic development, the shot came from a quarter they least expected. From a small country in the Alps known for its neutrality, chocolate, cheese and snow capped mountains.
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