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My friend and colleague Suman Fernando, who has died aged 92, had an international reputation in the field of critical psychiatry, particularly in relation to advocating for race equity in mental health.As well as being a consultant psychiatrist in the…
続きを読むCharlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the …
続きを読むFormer cabin crew member Charlotte May Lee, 21, reportedly accused of trying to bring 46kg of cannabis strain kush into countryUK officials have said they are supporting a British woman arrested in Sri Lanka amid reports a former cabin crew member has …
続きを読むVesak is the most sacred day for Buddhists, commemorating the birth, enlightenment and death of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, all traditionally believed to have occurred on the full moon day of the Vesakha month in the ancient Indian lunar calendar C…
続きを読むIn countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunitiesIt took Jeewanthi Adhikari a decade to get the promotion she wanted working in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. For years, she wat…
続きを読むWriter, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris’s Tamil n…
続きを読むWorshippers are frisked on entering temple in Kandy where relic is held and photography is strictly prohibitedSri Lankan police have launched an investigation into a photo circulated on social media claiming to show a Buddha tooth relic, which has gone…
続きを読むEnergy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heatA countrywide power outage in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that clambered into a power station south of Colombo.The blackout, wh…
続きを読むWaves towering up to 30 metres killed more than 220,000 people in 15 countries in deadliest tsunami in historyCeremonies were held in countries across Asia on Thursday to remember the more than 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago in the Indi…
続きを読むIn today’s newsletter: As a judge finds the government unlawfully detained Tamils on Diego Garcia, we look at the geopolitcs that led to them being trapped in ‘hell on earth’ for three yearsGood morning. In October 2021, a boat carrying dozens of Tami…
続きを読むGovernment could face a huge bill for damages after keeping more than 60 asylum seekers in ‘hellish’ conditionsDozens of asylum seekers stranded on one of the most remote islands in the world in conditions described as “hell on earth” were unlawfully d…
続きを読むLawyers and campaigners hail removal of 47 people from remote Indian Ocean island as ‘a big day for justice’Dozens of people stranded in hellish conditions for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have arrived in the …
続きを読むFilm-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her familyThe mango taste is bittersweet in this documentary-memoir of family pain and secrets from film-maker Chloe Abrahams. Using a small digital vid…
続きを読むGovernment drops opposition to case of 64 people, including 16 children, who fled persecution in Sri LankaDozens of Tamils stranded on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia for more than three years are to be airlifted to the UK after the gove…
続きを読むIsraeli travellers told to evacuate area immediately as police set up patrols and roadblocksThe golden sands of Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay are usually carefree, a place for tourists to surf the famous break and relax on the beach.But last week, the slow rh…
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