Trade Block
July 11 (LBO) – A tariff cut of up to 70 percent on goods like cement imported under the Indo-Lanka free trade deal, has been pushed back to …
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Two policemen killed in Sri Lanka blast
July 12, 2006 (AFP) - Two policemen were killed Wednesday in a landmine attack by suspected Tamil Tiger guerrillas in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna …
Choices: Kiri or kekiri?
July 11, 2006 (LBO) - Do infrastructure reforms increase disparities between the wealthy areas around Colombo and the rest of the country? Do they …
Fuelling Wars
July 11 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s energy minister wants nine billion rupees from the Treasury to settle Ceylon Petroleum Corp’s subsidy …
IMF proposes emergency liquidity cushion
SINGAPORE, July 11, 2006 (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is proposing an emergency liquidity cushion to help Asian and other emerging …
Blast near Tiger cemetery kills Sri Lanka soldier
July 11, 2006 (AFP) - A government soldier was killed Tuesday in a powerful bomb explosion near a Tamil Tiger war cemetery in Sri Lanka's northern …
Sri Lanka offers cash, devolution to end ethnic bloodshed
COLOMBO, July 11, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president Tuesday offered 1. buy doxycycline online …
Winning Words
July 11 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Editors Guild will honour print journalists Tuesday evening at its annual awards ceremony for journalistic …
Quick Sand
July 9, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will continue to subsidise retail fuel prices in the absence of a new pricing formula, as Colombo threatened to …
Oil Conundrum
July 9, 2006 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's main opposition charged that weak economic management was the cause of galloping inflation in the country and not …
Zimbabwe’s churches say they may have answer to economic woes
HARARE, July 9, 2006 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's churches are rallying to provide what they call a "comprehensive document" they believe could help lift the …
India’s ruling Congress battles mounting criticism over reforms
NEW DELHI, July 8, 2006 (AFP) - India's ruling Congress party moved into damage control on Saturday after an embarrassing U-turn on privatisation …
Sri Lanka police probe death of innocent man beaten up in jail
July 8, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police have launched an investigation into the death of a man who was allegedly beaten up in prison after being …
Bank of Japan to tighten rules on executives’ finances
TOKYO, July 7, 2006 (AFP) - The Bank of Japan said Friday it will ban its executives from investing in most types of financial products following a …
Enabling Code
July 7, 2006 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's main employers' body has introduced a code of conduct as part of its efforts at encouraging firms to hire disabled …
Sri Lanka bipartisan peace bid fails, opposition says
July 7, 2006 (AFP) - A fresh attempt to hammer out a bipartisan approach to Sri Lanka's drawn out Tamil separatist conflict ended abruptly with the …
Audit Rider
July 7, 2006 (LBO) – A parliamentary body which oversees public finances, plans to bring a law to beef up the office of Sri Lanka’s …
Sri Lankan rupee strengthens; shares close narrowly mixed
July 7, 2006 (LBO) - Colombo share prices closed little change in moderate trade Friday, but the rupee rallied a touch on some dollars sales by state …
Indian freeze on privatisation shows PM’s tough reforms fight
NEW DELHI, July 7, 2006 (AFP) - India's move to freeze its privatisation programme is a bad signal for reforms and highlights the uphill battle Prime …
Strangers in their own land, Tamil refugees in limbo amid rising violence
MALLAVI, Sri Lanka, July 6, 2006 (AFP) - Former vegetable vendor Dharmaselan lost his leg and arm in an aerial bombing over strife-torn northern Sri …
Tiger supremo pays homage to 273 suicide bombers
July 6, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's elusive Tamil Tiger supremo has paid tribute to 273 suicide bombers known as Black Tigers who have carried out …
Mortgage Crisis
July 6, 2006 (LBO) - A top Sri Lankan housing bank has asked the government to exempt housing mortgage lenders from upcoming law aimed at helping …
Warming Up
July 6, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to issue spectrum for third generation or next generation mobile technology to cellular phone operators …
Deep Cut
July 6, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's biggest mobile-phone operator Dialog Telekom Thursday slashed outgoing call charges by as much as 50 percent …