Claiming that the Rubber Export Restriction Scheme in Malaya and Ceylon amply justified itself the Financial Times says the persistent campaign to wreck restriction is beginning to be regarded with so ...

A Ceylonese student in London once took a bet of Stg. Pounds five with a friend that he would attend the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. He won the bet by getting a job with Lyons, the ...

As a member of the famous Denishawn dance company, Jane Sherman spent over five months travelling around the subcontinent.

Describing her new book, The Book of Chai, as a “love affair with chai,” London-based food writer, entrepreneur, and ...

It’s 8am and there is sleeting rain – miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka’s tea fields.

By Jayantha Gunasekera President’s Counsel Vice President, Royal College Union Royal College Colombo-7 was formed by the British Government in 1835, primarily for the education of the children of the ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has posthumously pardoned Captain Diyunuge Edward Henry Pedris, who was executed 109 years ago ...

The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...

The Maldives, Mauritius, the Seychelles or Sri Lanka, which should you visit? Our writer compares the winter-sun favourites ...

Sri Lanka’s tea pickers, crucial to the economy, aim to vote for a president who promises better working conditions. With a ...