HISTORY | To date, very little has been written on the Malaysian Sinhalese who originated from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). This is rather unfortunate. Despite numbering only 3,660 in Peninsular ...

Sri Lanka's two largest ethnic groups, the Sinhalese and the Sri Lankan Tamils, who were engaged in a longstanding civil war, are genetically more similar to each other than any other South Asian ...

The Sinhalese community in Malaysia and South-East Asia are small but yet thriving in their contribution to the country and also the South-East Asia region ...

Established in 1931, the Sinhalese Bar is one of the country’s oldest and is run by Alfred Perera, the second-generation owner. Bartender Alfred Perera, who is 81 years old, arranges the liquor ...

In the summer of 1983, ethnic violence swept the island nation of Sri Lanka. Known as Black July, the outbreak of communal violence between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority communities left ...

In Sri Lanka, India and elsewhere, Sinhalese and Tamil people celebrate the new year around April 13-14; the exact day is determined by astrologers in accordance with the zodiac. And if you ...

But it has been scarred by a long and bitter civil war arising out of ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the Tamil minority in the north and east. After some 26 years of violence ...

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However, more importantly, this is the first time in the country’s history that a Sinhalese-majority formation, without the support of any established Tamil entity, has emerged as the leading ...

In the 19th century, when the English poet and journalist Edwin Arnold called on Buddhists everywhere to help restore their religious shrines in India, a young Sinhalese man decided to take up the ...

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