COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: A delegation from the Communist Party of China is expected to visit Sri Lanka soon to brief members of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the party at the core of the governing National People’s Power coalition, on the Chinese party’s approach to internal discipline and party building, according to the J.V.P.’s general secretary, Tilvin Silva. Mr. Silva said in a Facebook post that he had been told of the planned visit during a meeting on Thursday with China’s ambassador, Wei Hu

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka: Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, the former Eastern Province chief minister who is being held on remand in several criminal investigations, has accused unnamed “fake nationalists” in Batticaloa of sabotaging an administrative settlement of the dispute over the Mayilathamadu and Madhavanai grazing lands. Subramaniyam Jeevanraj, a functionary of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal, the party Mr. Chandrakanthan leads, made his remarks public. In a Facebook post written in Tami

COLOMBO: An opposition lawmaker accused the government on Wednesday of losing a $392 million Chinese investment at Colombo Port by accepting a $17 million grant from the United States. The claim is contradicted by the Chinese company’s own stock exchange filing and by the date the American grant was announced. Mujibur Rahman, a parliamentarian of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), was speaking in a debate on regulations under the Imports and Exports (Control) Act. He said the government had inst