March 14, 2020 · 2:06 pm

Dire Situation in Lombardy … … Hear Ye ! Hear Ye!

This is from a Doha resident now stuck in Italy. … circulated by GEETH KARUNATILLEKA of ADELAIDE:

“I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has the chance, today to take actions that will deter the Italian situation from becoming your own country’s reality.  The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today.

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March 14, 2020 · 1:26 pm

Coronavirus: Advice from the Wuhan Heartland

This, by far, is the most clearly spelt-out parcel of information I’ve received yet… From a young researcher who had been transferred from Shenzhen to Wuhan to collaborate with the task force that is fighting the coronavirus epidemic, we receive and willingly transmit to all of this clear, simple and accessible information, which describe exactly what it is. the virus, how it transfers from one person to another and how it can be neutralized in everyday life.

 

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March 14, 2020 · 1:28 am

Sri Lanka as A Resplendent Isle from Way Back in Time

Pauline Gunewardene, being …. a talk originally titled “A Brief History of Sri Lanka,” and presented at  the Mind Cafe Mental Health Conference o at the Marriott in Weligama, 3-10 August 2019…… and subsequently placed in the first CEYLANKAN for 2020 with the title “Resplendent Lanka – “only forty leagues from Paradise”

The ancient land of Lanka, known in ages past as the Resplendent Isle, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean — some of the many names given to it by travellers who came under its spell. Lanka is its original name and means island while Sri means resplendent and also used as an honorific.

 Ibn Battuta Marco Polo

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March 13, 2020 · 6:12 pm

Port City Colombo 2014-2040 Clarified

SEE  …. LISTEN …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2e1xOcGpDc

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March 13, 2020 · 4:37 pm

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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March 12, 2020 · 5:27 pm

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

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March 11, 2020 · 11:30 am

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

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March 9, 2020 · 10:21 am

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.

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March 8, 2020 · 1:50 pm

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.

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March 8, 2020 · 5:34 am

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.

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