2003-11-09 04:00:00 PDT Colombo, Sri Lanka-- A decade ago, her meteoric 18-month rise from private citizen to prime minister and then president was in some ways predictable, if in other ways ...

Last Sunday Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga made her first public statements over her decision to dissolve parliament and sack the government—more than a week after her unprecedented action ...

Chandrika Kumaratunga congratulates C. Joseph Vijay on his Tamil Nadu Assembly election victory, emphasizing Sri Lanka-Tamil ...

Stable democracies are not known for coups d’etat, but the president of the strange hybrid government in the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka engineered the next-closest thing this month. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urged the Mahinda Rajapaksa government to negotiate with the island nation's minorities to achieve peace. Tamils in Sri Lanka seem to be boycotting ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Exiting the international airport in Colombo can be alarming: uniformed men tote guns, and there are acres of razor wire. Colombo’s quaint commercial center is clogged with police checkpoints.

Following the articles ‘Sajith-Anura debate, that never happened’ and ‘Mahinda-Ranil 2005: That never was,’ let us revisit the ‘Ranil-Chandrika 1999’ debate. The lead up to the 1999 Presidential ...