Colombo, Sri Lanka | Xinhua | Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the new president of Sri Lanka in an election held in parliament on Wednesday. Soon after winning the election, Wickremesinghe addressed the parliament, calling on all legislators including the opposition parliamentarians to unite and work together with him to …
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Colombo, Sri Lanka | Xinhua | Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers has approved a proposal to declare Fridays a holiday for government employees to encourage them to carry out agricultural work to increase production in the country, local media reported on Tuesday. According to a cabinet proposal, the ministers endorsed two key …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | An estimated 40 percent voter turnout was recorded in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections by noon on Wednesday after voting began at 7 a.m. local time, the government information department said. In several districts a little over 40 percent voter turnout was recorded with the highest …
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