When Vijaya, the first King of the island of Sri Lanka, arrived in Sri Lanka from India in 486 BC, he brought with him a flag with a symbol of a lion on it. Since then the Lion symbol played a ...

A small school event held in the northern town of Vavuniya made national headlines in Sri Lanka this week, after a provincial Education Minister refused to hoist the national flag at the ceremony.

IT just isn’t a game of cricket involving Sri Lanka without Percy Abeysekera waving his flag. For 50 years ... ition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery now features a special engraving ...