It doesn't need to be lawless or out of government control. These terrorist networks spread easily using preachers ,mosques and Madrasas. Many such Mosques and Madrasas are unofficial and can exist anywhere and no one is going to close them down, even legal Mosques and Madrasas can have radical...
Hambantota deal is nothing new, in fact some SL experts said the port should have been built and owned joint by Ports Authority and China like CICT.
As Colombo Port brings profits as soon as the Terminal opened the lease period for CICT is lower than Hambantota port. As China needs to spend more...
I found some videos about the Internation Army games yesterday. Suvorov contest is this
About Suvorov Attack contest
A+-
Location
Korla, People's Republic of China
About Suvorov Attack contest
Team (up to 21 men)
Team leader
Team members (four crews:
3 main and 1 reserve crew) - 12...
Didn't know @gambit was Indiano_O
Where do did you get that 70-80% of the North Korean population lives in cities.
Also would it hurt to put on some lights so people can see these world class cities from space?
You are talking about the first class
Class and Ticket Price
G trains
(5-6 hours) Business Seats CNY 1,748 3 seats in a row;
the sofa-like seats can be adjusted for passengers to lie flat.
Sightseeing Seats CNY 1,748 5 to 6 deluxe seats in the first car, just behind the cockpit.
First Class...
Sri Lanka was never good at managing commerical assets. Rajapaksa did get the CICT right, there were initital concerns about a foreign company running a port terminal as previously only the Ports Authority and local companies operated terminals.
It's first full year of operation was 2015 and it...
The funny thing is the agreement was signed in the 29th of July. The same day the Indo-Lanka accord was signed, SL was forced to sign it after India intervened in the first war against LTTE saving the LTTE leadership after they were cornered by the militray...
Sirisena is the head of state as he is the president, his party is the SLFP. The entire Rajapaksa family is also members of the SLFP but is another group called the Joint Opposition
Ranil Wickremesinghe is the Prime Minister and his party is the UNP
The government is a unity between...
Sirisena doesn't really pay much attention to economic things . It was the PM that went to China and negotiated the deal, Sirisena is from the SLFP while the PM is in the UNP. The MP that picked trouble with Chinese was Ravi Karunanayake who is also in the UNP so if he opposed this he will be...
Lankaweb is a random blog , its better to quote directly from the source
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=169092
During the early Arab-Israeli wars Israeli economy was mostly agricultural and their military forces mostly had smuggled weapons or taken from British armouries while bullets and some mortars ,SMGs ,Rifles etc were produced locally. They also built some tanks from scrap.
Even in the Six day war...
There were never such a agreement and such a agreement is impossible anyway even if it said "China can do anything they want with port" in it. Chinese or any other foreign warships need SL govt approval before entering SL waters and if they want to station armed troops there are many laws from...