What’s the difference between a liberation movement and a terrorist organisation? A question brought into sharp focus when US President George Bush removed Nelson Mandela and other ANC members from the US's terrorist watch list.

Patrick Lawrence an experienced US journalist adresses the question that by 2006 whether Sri Lanka could be called 'a failed state,' writes Patrick Lawrence in his recent book ‘Conversations in a Failing State’, brought out by Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in March 2008.

Across Asia Buddhist clergy are in unprecedented numbers exerting their moral authority onto politics, giving rise what one academic has called "angry monk syndrome".

Cain India, a subsidiary of Cairn UK Holdings Limited and the Sri Lankan Government signed a Petroleum Resources agreement to explore for oil and natural gas in the Mannar Basin.

Gripped by civil war for over two decades, Sri Lanka is fast becoming a battleground for India and China's influence.

Velupillai Pirapaharan, LTTE leader congratulated Diaspora Tamils across the world for rallying together with Pongu Tamil events to strenghten the Tamils struggle for freedom.

At short notice more than 75,000 Tamil Canadians gathered at Downsview Park in Toronto, Canada for a spectacular Pongu Tamil event, forging solidarity for the cause of Eelam, on Saturday, July 5.

Tamil Australians gathered in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend of 5 and 6 July, to lend their voices to the global show of Tamil solidarity

LTTE leader Mr V. Pirapaharan participated in the Black Tigers commemoration day events held in Vanni on July 5.

Setting aside domestic Tamil sensitivities, the Indian government appears to have involved itself in a full-fledged proxy war in Sri Lanka.

Around 30,000 people attended the Pongu Thamil (Tamil Upsurge) rally in London at the Roehampton Vale sports ground, said the organisers.

Striking a sharp contrast to Colombo's portrayal of Eelam struggle as a terrorist issue, Frances Stewart, the director of CRISE, looks at the crisis as a case of inequalities in political power between the Tamils and Sinhalese.

A combination of rising military expenditure, poor economic policies and record commodity prices has hit hard, an already teetering Sri Lankan economy.

Popular South Indian magazine ‘Kumudam’ in its editorial urged the Central government in India to act cautiously in decisions relating to Sri Lanka and not to unwittingly assist the enemy.