Colombo (News 1st) - Australia’s first Federal Modern Slavery Act has been passed by Parliament, passing through the House of Representatives this afternoon and having already received the support of the Senate yesterday. According to the Bill, Modern Slavery has been defined to encompass offence...

Colombo (News 1st) - The Office of the Speaker announced that the Speaker met with President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat today. The present political situation was planned to be discussed at this meeting. The Office of the Speaker announced, the Speaker met with the Pr...

Colombo (News 1st) - Three people died after a bus veered off the road and toppled over in the Walaha-Pitiya area in the Negombo - Chilaw Main Road....

South Korea's top court has ordered a Japanese firm to compensate Koreans it used as forced labour in World War Two.  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited has been ordered to pay up to 150m won ($133,000; £104,000) to 28 South Korean victims or their families. The court's ruling upholds two separa...

Reuters - A Philippine court on Thursday (November 29) found three police officers guilty of murder for the killing of a 17-year-old high school student, the first such conviction in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. The three police officers were sentenced to up to 40 years in prison by a C...