Fresh pain for Sri Lankan asylum seeker family stuck in detention on Christmas Island as daughter, three, is evacuated to Perth hospital with a blood infection after 10 days in agony Youngest daughter of asylum seeker family is evacuated to a Perth hospital Three-year-old Tharnicaa is being held with her family on Christmas Island She developed … Read more
A woman who questioned why her Sri Lankan birth mother gave her up when she was just three months old was finally reunited with her on tonight’s Long Lost Family. Yasika Fernando, 31, who lives in London with her husband Tillek and their two young daughters, only discovered she was adopted at the age of 18 when her … Read more
‘I appeal to you – eat this fish’: Sri Lankan politician bites into raw fish during bizarre press conference to prove it will not give people coronavirus Former fisheries minister Dilip Wedaarachchi, 63, bit into the medium-sized fish Tens of thousands of tonnes of fish been left unsold after the Central Fish Market The outbreak … Read more
Wild elephants in Sri Lanka have been found with plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomachs after eating rubbish at a dump encroaching on their habitat. Heartbreaking images of the elephants foraging for food on a refuse facility in Oluvil were captured by Jaffna-based photographer Tharmaplan Tilaxan. The open garbage dump is nestled in the … Read more
A British woman who spent £100,000 on her Sri Lankan husband before he was murdered in an alleged blackmail plot three years ago is fighting to recover her money. Diane Peebles, 61, from Edinburgh, was dubbed the ‘British Shirley Valentine’ after she fell in love with hotel worker Priyanjana De Zoysa, who was 33 years her … Read more