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March 22, 2018
Not Sri Lankan girls?" Nix said no. "Just saying we could bring some Ukranians in," he said, adding "they are very beautiful, I find that works very well." Nix also said Cambridge Analytica could send someone posing as a wealthy developer to Sri Lanka to bribe politicians, film the encounter "and then post itÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 22, 2018
He uses an apt analogy: 'Some politicians own only a push bicycle when they come to politics but later obtain Benz cars. Don't think of ... To put it simply, when you take the village out of the hands of the villagers and put it in the pocket of the politician, you are facilitating Benz-dreams. Wickremesinghe isÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 20, 2018
Don't become politicians who search for luxuries after coming to the field as paupers, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told the newly elected members of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) yesterday. The Prime Minister came up with this advice during the swearing-in of new CMC membersÃâà...
Business Insider Australia
March 20, 2018
The journalist posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka. In one exchange filmed in January, Nix said Cambridge Analytica could send “somebody posing as a wealthy developer” to Sri Lanka to offer incumbent politicians a “large amount of money” in a “deal that's tooÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
The Channel 4 reporter posed as a “fixer” for a wealthy Sri Lankan family that wanted to help politicians they favored. In a series of meetings at London hotels between November and January, all of which were secretly filmed, Mr. Nix and other executives boasted that Cambridge Analytica employs frontÃâà...
Colombo Page
March 20, 2018
Mar 19, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena says some are working according to their personal agendas to gain political power and they are not interested in strengthening the peace and reconciliation or in solving the issues of the country. The President further said that the people shouldÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
Sri Lankan Muslims say they fear being attacked during Friday prayers by Sinhalese Buddhists, amid accusations that security forces are failing to take action against marauding mobs. Despite a state of emergency and a curfew to curtail violence that broke out last weekend between Muslims and BuddhistsÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 7, 2018
“Effective steps should be taken to prevent politicians from gaining cheap mileage over the tense situation in the country. The dissemination of false news on war heroes should also stop forthwith. The law should be equally enforced on all ethnicities. I hereby request the public not to clash with securityÃâà...
CNN
March 7, 2018
A local Muslim politician, who did not want to be named through fear of reprisals, told CNN Wednesday that four mosques, 37 houses, 46 shops and 35 vehicles were destroyed in the initial outbreak of violence, though he cautioned the true number could be higher, with sporadic incidents continuing toÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 6, 2018
It has been a ceaseless chatter of bragging, threatening, defaming, belittling etc. on the part of these characters who crowd Sri Lanka's political stage. ... Despite the bravado and the smokescreen of decency employed, the politicians of this country have stripped themselves naked and shown that they haveÃâà...
Colombo Page
March 6, 2018
The Premier charged that some power hungry politicians are seem to be plotting various sabotage acts instigating racism to fulfill their hidden agendas. He stated that they want to disrupt the normal public life to reap petty advantages. "Their only trump card is to stir up communalism. It is their sole aim toÃâà...
News18
March 6, 2018
Colombo: The BCCI on Tuesday said the Tri-nation T20 series in Sri Lanka, also involving the Indian cricket team, will continue despite the country ... "The Sri Lankan government has informed us that an extra layer of security is being added around the Indian team hotel and we have been assured thatÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 5, 2018
The Government urges every citizen of Sri Lanka to desist from falling prey to such hate and misinformation campaigns. ... Every Sri Lankan citizen inclusive of the clergy, politicians, social leaders, civil societies and media must deplore and violence and must co-operate to bring peace and harmony toÃâà...
Daily Mirror
February 26, 2018
This writer knows of a popular gymnasium in Kotte which is frequented by some politicians. One politician, who trains there, is often reminded by his security officer, when training concludes, that he has to make a visit to four or five funeral houses that evening. He is also told that he has to have a meal inÃâà...
Asian Tribune
February 24, 2018
The other living Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka, from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005, is the 6th richest Sri Lankan politician with US Dollar 1.4 million. Ranil Wickremesinghe, MP, serves as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 9Ãâà...
gulfnews.com
February 15, 2018
1988 - Film star-turned-politician Vijaya Kumaranatunge was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen near his residence in Colombo. Kumaranatunge was shot in the face and the chest as he was talking to some men selling flower pots near the gate. The gunmen drove up to the house on a motorcycle andÃâà...
Quartz
February 12, 2018
Being among the relatively few top female politicians in South Asia isn't easy. One of Sri Lanka's most prominent female politicians, Rosy Senanayake, at the time a lawmaker in parliament, was once told by the transport minister that he was unable to respond to her question because she was too beautiful.
Sunday Observer
December 31, 1999
The richest Sri Lankan politician is Percy Mahendra 'Mahinda' Rajapaksa, the sixth President of Sri Lanka with US Dollar 18 Billion. Not surprising for sure. Surprising however, is that Maithripala Yapa Sirisena is the third richest politician in the country with US Dollar 14 million. Chandrika B Kumaratunge isÃâà...
