Human rights violation threatens Sri Lankan special trade status

"Sri Lanka could lose special trading rights with the bloc because of a failure to improve its human rights record, the European Union has warned." EU has released a report which is backed by a year long study...

India commits additional USD 100Mn to rehabilitate Tamil Refugees

Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday announced that India is willing to give Sri Lanka an aid to the tune of USD 100Mn to help the island nation settle down the Internally Displaced Tamils (IDTs)....

Resilience submits Final Plan on Centre of Excellence for Sri Lnk

Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding, on July 7, 2009, between the Ministry of Vocational Training of Sri Lanka, World Wide Resilience Lanka (WWR-Lanka) and the Resilience International Institute...

20000 civilians may died in last days of Srilankan War- A witness

“After looking at the people dying and dead bodies everywhere, it is like nothing threatens me any more, it is like I have had the hard time in my life and I think I am prepared to take up whatever happens in...

Conservative Govt. takes lead on Srilanka issue,holds Round Table

Sept. 11th 2009 A round table was held at Minister's Regional Office in Toronto today, Canada where Sri Lanka's present situation was discussed.Round table was attended by Canada's Multiculturism,Citizenship...

20 year Jail term for Sri Lankan editor

That's the way autocracy works, you raise the voice and you are behind bars.That is what happening in Sri Lanka. After the killing of Prabhakaran, several so called pro Tamil journalist are facing direct or...

Michael Jackson Death Hoax Evidence Mounts

" In recent days, several new developments have come to light in favour of the theory that Michael Jackson has Staged his own death and pulled off the greatest Hoax of the Century. As...

Diplomatic row with Britain over visa-free woman

The British High Commission in Colombo has facilitated a 40-year-old female, Angayatkanni Krishnapillai, to travel to the UK, without an official Visa being stamped on her passport."Sri Lanka on Friday sought an...

No excuse for anti-Tamil policies

National Post, a new paper that was "broadly sympathetic to the Sri Lankan government's goal of confronting and subduing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", posted an opinion that "there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies. "Sri Lanka must now be judged by the...

End the farse, free doctors

Robert Templer, Asia program director of the International Crisis Group called government of Sri Lanka to alter course, provide a clear timetable to resettle the IDPs,  and release the doctors. An estimated...

AP writer denied permission remain in Sri Lanka

Ravi Nessman, the Associated Press burea chief in Sri Lanka was denied permission to remain in Sri Lanka. Associated Press had reported extensively on the heavy civilian casualities this year. Nessman also...

Sri Lanka asks aid agencies to scale down operations

Sri Lanka asked International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other aid agencies to scale down their operation amid increasing pressure from international community to ease the restrictions on aid agencies....

Sri Lanka captured Canadian

A Canadian is kept in the camps for the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. These camps are different than the detention camps that the Sri Lankan government calls as welfare villages. The Sri Lankan...

A League of their own

If the current decade has been one of the most fruitful for Royal College rugby, then the current season could be termed as the pinnacle of the decade – the dream season. Royal teams throughout the past 9 years...

Special zone for China in Sri Lanka

First time ever Sri Lanka had set up a specific area for foreign companies, and China's Huichen gets it. "Sri Lanka's investment promotion agency, the Board of Investment, said it signed a deal with China's...

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