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THE country’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family to challenge the incumbent president in Sept 21 polls, the first since the country’s unprecedented economic meltdown.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Namal Rajapaksa, the son of Sri Lanka's former president, will run in the Sept. 21 presidential election, he said on Wednesday, taking on the incumbent, Ranil Wickremesinghe, whom many analysts see as the frontrunner.
COLOMBO: The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election in September, his political party said Wednesday (Aug 7), in an apparent bid to regain his family's lost power after a humiliating setback two years ago during an unprecedented economic crisis in the Indian ocean island nation.
(Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw a ruthless crushing of Tamil Tiger guerrillas to end a long-running civil war and went on to become president, had been due to step down on Wednesday to appease a population angry over several tumultuous months of economic and political crisis.
COLOMBO (AFP): Sri Lanka's Supreme Court issued Tuesday (Nov 14) a symbolic ruling that the powerful Rajapaksa brothers - including two ex-presidents - were guilty of triggering the island's worst financial crisis by mishandling the economy.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s leftist president marked the anniversary of independence from Britain on Tuesday (Feb 4) with a pledge to change the impoverished island nation’s image as a “corrupt” country.
THE new government welcomed United States sanctions against two senior figures from the former ruling Rajapaksa family over two notorious graft cases involving aircraft purchases.
Anger at Sri Lanka's dire economic crisis has been simmering for months, with many laying the blame for widespread shortages and runaway inflation squarely at the feet of the ruling Rajapaksa family.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A deepening economic crisis in Sri Lanka sparked mass protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country, leaving his successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to declare a state of emergency while seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A deepening economic crisis in Sri Lanka sparked mass protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country, leaving his successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to declare a state of emergency while seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
BANGKOK (AFP): Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday (Aug 11) arrived in Bangkok after his visa ran out following a month-long stint in Singapore where he had taken refuge from protesters at home.
THE family of murdered journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge has appealed to the island’s new president to reopen an investigation into the internationally-condemned assassination.
A police outrider and a security escort. A luxury limousine. A 20-minute ride down Singapore’s East Coast Parkway to the downtown hotel where he had been booked into for the night.
Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left Singapore, the city-state’s immigration office said, after his social visit pass expired.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's ruling party has asked the country's new president to provide security and other assistance for his predecessor who fled to Southeast Asia last month after protests flared amid a crippling economic crisis, an official said on Thursday.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Former Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa (pic) has left Singapore, after his short-term visit pass expired on Thursday (Aug 11).
COLOMBO: New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, initial results showed on Friday (Nov 15).
Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is set to extend his stay in Singapore.
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Thailand has received a request from the current Sri Lankan government to allow former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to enter the Kingdom, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanee Sangrat said on Wednesday (Aug 10).
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa may return home in about two weeks after fleeing a popular uprising in July, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, depending in part on arrangements to secure his safety.
