Sat. March 20, 2010
-
Voxy
March 20, 2010
Australia's traditionally racist asylum policies once again came to the fore after Rudd persuaded the Indonesians to hold Sri Lankan Tamils who were fleeing ...
Ceylon Daily News
March 20, 2010
My mind goes back to September 1956 when I first met Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka at the Ceylon
students' Centre in
London, when I went there to attend a ...
ISRIA (registration)
March 20, 2010
During the briefing, Foreign Minister Bogollagama also appraised the media on the visit by a delegation of senior officials of the Sri Lanka government ...
Ceylon Daily News
March 20, 2010
The Government annually spends Rs. 3.5 billion to treat Kidney patients. Non Communicable
diseases in
Sri Lanka are on the rise at an alarming rate and it ...
Colombo Page
March 20, 2010
A subsidiary of
Singapore's Prima, Ceylon Grain Elevators group has said that an economic slump in early 2009 had reduced demand for chicken as consumers ...
Press Trust of India
March 20, 2010
Colombo, Mar 20 (PTI) Detained former
Sri Lankan army Chief Gen Sarath Fonseka has moved the country's apex court saying he can't be tried by a military ...
MorungExpress
March 20, 2010
Although tea has become a mainstay of the Sri Lankan
economy, it has not always grown on the island. British colonists introduced it to what was then Ceylon ...
Inter Press Service
March 20, 2010
"This does not in any way infringe on the sovereignty of
Sri Lanka," Ban explained, responding to his critics. But the
Sri Lankan government, ...
Asian Tribune
March 19, 2010
The
Tamil Nadu government has urged the Centre to take vigorous steps in arriving at a speedy political solution to the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. ...
Colombo Page
March 18, 2010
Mar 18,
Colombo: The
Sri Lanka government today accused the Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) of leaking former
army Commander Retired General ...
BusinessWeek
March 18, 2010
The yield on the three-year government bond increased 10 basis points to 10.95 percent, according to the Commercial Bank of Ceylon Plc.
Sri Lanka is keeping ...
Asian Tribune
March 17, 2010
A delegation of senior officials of the
government of Sri Lanka is in Brussels to renegotiate the GSP Plus facilities to
Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan ...
Radio Australia
March 17, 2010
The
UNHCR last week said its finalising new guidelines for
Sri Lanka, reflecting improvements there it says. That means some Sri Lankan asylum seekers ...
Lanka Business Online
March 17, 2010
Foreign
banks have found buyers more than a billion
US dollars in to
Sri Lanka government Treasuries since mid-2009.
Sri Lanka is also offering to sell 100 ...
Sify
March 17, 2010
Sri Lanka's opposition alliance United National Front (UNF) has said it will raise the salaries of government employees if it comes to power in the April 8 ...
National Post (blog)
March 17, 2010
The man who so brilliantly led the war, badly misread public opinion and more importantly the ability of a government to destroy the credibility of an ...
Colombo Page
March 17, 2010
Mar 17,
Colombo: According to the
Sri Lankan government the unemployment rate in the country has continued to decline from 8.8 percent in 2002 to its lowest ...
JURIST
March 17, 2010
Earlier this month,
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa [official profile] rejected [press release; JURIST report] Ban's plan to appoint a panel of ...
BBC News
March 17, 2010
Reuters AlertNet
March 16, 2010
Questions remain on the fragile
peace in
Sri Lanka and the people uprooted by war still living in camps in the north of the island. ...
Ceylon Daily News
March 16, 2010
All conspiracies failed because the Sri Lankan government had the support of the majority of countries. These foreign elements, INGOs and NGOs have started ...
Colombo Page
March 16, 2010
The pre-election budget report released by
Sri Lanka government recently pointed to the fact that the costs for the state
debt repayment and services was ...
Inner City Press
March 16, 2010
The request for the letter by the Rajapaksa government been ascribed to "internal politics" in
Sri Lanka. But it would set a precedent. ...
Asian Tribune
March 16, 2010
PR Newswire (press release)
March 16, 2010
SDE and the government of Sri Lanka have been in contact since 2006, when Mr. Ovadia, the managing director of the SDE Company, conducted several meetings ...
Asia Times Online
March 16, 2010
It has also said that fewer than 10% of the Sri Lankan workforce overseas has filed complaints. Recently, however, the government appeared to heed the ...
Eurasia Review
March 16, 2010
The
Sri Lankan government issued a statement
Tuesday denying it maintains a "intelligence" list of
NGO activists and is preparing their arrest - while at ...
Press TV
March 16, 2010
According to a government spokesman, Major General Prasad Samarasinghe, the court will reconvene later to rule on the objections of Fonseka's lawyers. ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
March 15, 2010
The government of Sri Lanka has taken steps to resettle approximately 6000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) during the first two weeks of March 2010, ...
Spero News
March 15, 2010
He said the government favours foreign investments because they lead to faster economic growth and this, the authorities believe, will reduce poverty. ...
The Undercurrent
March 15, 2010
In May of 2009, the Sri Lankan government emerged victorious in their brutal 26 year civil war. This was arguably an ethnic conflict. ...
Reuters
March 13, 2010
In an interview in February, Chiesi denied she and the Sri Lankan-born Rajaratnam did anything wrong. She said it is "an honor and a privilege" to stand ...
India Today
March 13, 2010
He said that
India has a huge stake in
Sri Lanka and will help the Government in Sri Lanka to amicably resolve the Tamil ethnic conflict. ...
Ministry of Defence (press release)
March 13, 2010
The joint statement signed between the UN and the Government does not set out a time frame to assess "progress" on these three issues, and very correctly so ...
Lanka Business Online
March 13, 2010
Sri Lanka's rice and carbohydrate prices are high despite the government busting about 26 billion rupees a year on fertilizer subsidies. ...
Ceylon Daily News
March 13, 2010
The President reiterated that the Government under his leadership did not make
Sri Lanka a
carbon copy of another country. He said that politics begin from ...
Colombo Page
March 13, 2010
Mar 12,
Colombo:
Sri Lankan government is planning to resettle the remaining Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) immediately after the de-mining process in ...
Ceylon Daily News
March 13, 2010
The
Sri Lankan government has already obtained two thirds majority in the
United Nations and in the Non Aligned Movement, Samarasinghe said. ...
CNN
March 13, 2010
The Sri Lankan military was accused of
bombing and shelling areas in the safe zone including hospitals, an allegation its commanders denied. ...
