http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sun, 19 Sep 2021 05:43:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210919/sunday-times-2/remembering-the-age-long-bonds-between-japan-and-sri-lanka-455690.html 18 September 2021 @ 7:27 pm lt;strong gt; lt;em gt;September 17, 2001 marked the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Conference where Sri Lanka's represnetative J.R. Jayewardene made a historic speech in which he, quoting the Buddha, urged the world community to be magnanimous towards Japan. The speech later laid the foundation for a solid Sri Lanka-Japan friendship. To mark the 70th anniversary of the conference, a... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210919/sunday-times-2/a-lesson-in-transformational-leadership-by-an-officer-par-excellence-455913.html 19 September 2021 @ 11:04 am lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-455914 quot; title= quot;Sunil-peiris-book quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/210919/uploads/2021/09/Sunil-peiris-book1.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;300 quot; height= quot;449 quot; / gt; ldquo;First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win rdquo; So said Mahatma Gandhi; the architect of India rsqu... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210919/sunday-times-2/global-food-demand-by-2050-meeting-the-challenges-455643.html 18 September 2021 @ 5:42 pm The global food demand is projected to increase by 58 to 98 percent by 2050 given the global population increase from the present 7.5 billion to 9.7 billion. The impacts on natural resources, land, water and energy demand would be tremendous. The energy demand is predicted to increase by 80 percent, with the global economy four times larger than today. About 85 percent of the demand is expected to... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210919/sunday-times-2/un-session-with-over-110-world-leaders-may-be-a-super-spreader-covid-event-warns-us-455632.html 18 September 2021 @ 5:34 pm UNITED NATIONS, (IDN) -- The United Nations, perhaps never in its 76-year history, has held a General Assembly session characterised by risks that could trigger the spread of a deadly disease in a city where Covid-19 Delta variant infections are on the rise. In a letter to the 192 UN missions, the United States has warned it does not want the upcoming sessions, beginning September 21, where mor... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210919/sunday-times-2/the-manchuria-crisis-revisited-455621.html 18 September 2021 @ 4:17 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;OXFORD ndash; Ninety years ago, on September 18, 1931, a junior Japanese military officer detonated an explosive that had been carefully laid by a Japanese-owned railroad near the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang (then known in the West as Mukden). The blast did little damage, but that wasn rsquo;t the point. The Japanese ...