Their funding is unknown, and critics, such as the Sri Lanka Guardian, consider their journalism to be of poor quality.
[2] The online source provides news and editorial on the current affairs of Asia, with a special emphasis on South Asia but mostly concentrates its news on the current Civil conflict in Sri Lanka with questionable reliability.
Norwegian journalist Nadarajah Sethurupan, who filed the lawsuit, claimed that Rajasingham called him and asked him to work with his secret unit to attack the Sri Lanka peace process.
When Sethurupan refused to join, the hidden unit started attacking him as a "terrorist" on the Asian Tribune website.
[5] A Swedish Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of the lower court in February 2012 and ordered Rajasingham and the World Institute for Asian Studies Institute to pay Sethurupan about $20,000.