Three dead and curfew in Northeast Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sept 20, 2006 (AFP) - Three people were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in northeast Sri Lanka, police said Wednesday, and a curfew was put …
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Talk Cheap
Sept 20 (LBO) – Payphone operator Tritel Services Limited said Wednesday it would slash outgoing call charges by 33 percent, expanding reach …
Airlines, tour operators see no disruption in Sri Lankan traffic to Thailand after coup
Sept 20 (LBO) – Tourist and business traffic from Sri Lanka to Thailand is expected to go on as normal following a military coup there, with …
Live Trading
Sept 20 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Millennium Information Technologies (MIT) said Wednesday it had developed an automated trading system for the …
Luxury resort and spa chain Banyan Tree shelves plans for Sri Lanka
SINGAPORE, September 20 (LBO) –Singapore-based luxury resort and spa chain Banyan Tree has shelved plans for Sri Lanka, as the leisure industry …
The corporate takeover that triggered a coup
SINGAPORE, Sept 20, 2006 (AFP) - The overthrow of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra marked the culmination of a crisis partly triggered by the …
Private Space
Sept 20 (LBO) – The government has offered private traders space on board state chartered vessels carrying food to war torn Jaffna on possible …
War planes hit Tigers after Muslim massacre, reporters escape bombing
COLOMBO, Sept 19, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan jets bombed suspected Tamil Tiger targets in the island's east Tuesday, officials said, while rebel mortars …
Tiger arms ship originated in Indonesia, more on the way: Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sept 19, 2006 (AFP) - A ship suspected of ferrying weapons to Tamil rebels that was sunk by the Sri Lankan military originated in Indonesia …
Sri Lanka civilian killings on the rise: rights group
NEW YORK, Sept 19, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels have stepped up killings of civilians in a surge of violence this year …
Commercial potential of cricket remains untapped
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19, 2006 (AFP) - Asia remains a vast area of untapped commercial possibility for cricketing authorities but all the elements are …
Price Cushion
SINGAPORE, September 19, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka said Tuesday it was moving towards eliminating oil subsidies that are threatening to blow a …
Muslims buried in Sri Lanka after being hacked to death
POTTUVIL, Sept 18 (AFP) - The bodies of 10 Muslim men found hacked to death were buried in the farming village of Pottuvil on Monday as the Tamil …
Sri Lanka GoldQuest controversy takes new turn with Central Bank denial
Sept 19 (LBO) - The controversy over the sudden recall of police investigators probing the GoldQuest scheme took a new turn, with the authorities …
Broader Role
SINGAPORE, September 18, 2006 (LBO) – The International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private sector lender, is scaling up …
Estate workers in Sri Lanka begin wage talks, amidst high commodity prices
Sept 18 (LBO) - High commodity prices could up the bargaining power of plantation worker unions, as talks with plantation companies to raise wages, …
Small Talk
Sept 18 (LBO) –Telco operator Lanka Bell said Monday it was re-branding its short message service through fixed line phones, to appeal to a …
Online Jazz
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18, 2006 (AFP) - Internet search titan Yahoo announced plans on Monday to trumpet its revamped search page and enhanced features …
Government policies in Sri Lanka and elsewhere keep poor at bottom end
SINGAPORE, September 18, 2006 (LBO) – The World Bank rapped politically hungry governments saying short sighted policies fail to uplift the …
Civil society groups slam IMF reforms
SINGAPORE, September 18, 2006 (LBO) – Civil society groups Sunday slammed IMFs plan to overhaul its governance structure, saying they mean very …
Mixed response to World Bank’s new thrust on linking aid and graft busting
SINGAPORE, September 18, 2006 (LBO) – World Bank’s policy body Monday asked the bank’s president not to lose sight of reducing …
Eleven Muslims killed in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sept 18, 2006 (AFP) - The bodies of 11 Muslim men hacked to death were found in eastern Sri Lanka Monday, police said as Tamil Tiger rebels …
Sri Lanka among groups against IMF reforms
SINGAPORE, September 18, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka was one of the 23 countries that opposed a plan to overhaul the voting shares of the …
Sri Lanka boat people caught off Spain
PUERTO DE LOS CRISTIANOS, Spain, Sept 17, 2006 (AFP) - A second boatload of some 200 clandestine immigrants from Asia has been spotted on its way to …