Sri Lanka offers compromise to save peace bid
Apr.18 (AFP) - Sri Lanka Tuesday agreed to helicopter rides for Tiger rebels in a bid to clear the way for truce talks as peace broker Norway sent an …
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Sri Lanka blasts kill eight as Tigers suspend peace talks
Apr.17 (AFP) - At least eight people were killed in two separate mine blasts in northern Sri Lanka Monday, hours after Tiger rebels announced they …
Child soldier killed in Sri Lanka mine attack: UNICEF
Apr.17 (AFP) - A Tamil Tiger child soldier has been killed in a Claymore mine blast in northern Sri Lanka, the UN agency for children said Monday. …
Bombs kills eight in Sri Lanka, Norway in fresh salvage bid
Apr. 17 (AFP) - At least eight people were killed in a wave of blasts in Sri Lanka Monday as Tiger rebels suspended their participation in ceasefire …
Sri Lanka’s Central Bank scrambles to satisfy unprecedented cash demand
Apr.17 (LBO) - Sri Lanka’s Central Bank scrambled to cater to an unusually heavy demand for currency notes over the April festive holiday …
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Apr.17 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Department of Railways is planning to rent locomotives from India, Transport Minister A H M Fowzie said …
Blasts dim Sri Lanka peace hopes amid fresh attacks
Apr.16 (AFP) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels Sunday wounded two soldiers with a landmine attack in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula, the defence …
Sri Lanka peace hopes dim as Tigers suspend Swiss talks
Apr. 16 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tiger rebels Sunday suspended their participation at Swiss talks on saving their troubled truce, dimming prospects for …
Sri Lanka raises retail fuel prices from midnight
Apr.15 (LBO) – Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices by Rs.8.00 from midnight Saturday after a 10-month lag as world crude oil prices raced to US$ 70 …
Sri Lanka says doubts rebels want talks to save ceasefire
Apr.15 (AFP) - Sri Lanka Saturday expressed "serious doubts" about whether Tamil Tiger rebels want to go ahead with talks due to be held in …
Sri Lanka truce talks dim as blasts kill seven
Apr. 15 (AFP) - Suspected Tamil Tigers detonated two mines in Sri Lanka Saturday, killing seven security personnel as both the government and the …
Falling Short
WASHINGTON, Apr. 14 (AFP) - Rising fuel and materials prices and skilled labor shortages are expected to push reconstruction costs for the deadly …
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Apr.15 (LBO) – Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices by Rs.8.00 from midnight Saturday after a 10-month lag as world crude oil prices raced to US$ 70 per …
Mines found in Sri Lanka ahead of talks
Apr.15 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops arrested a man trying to plant two Claymore mines near a military checkpoint Saturday as peace broker Norway …
Norway clinches new dates for Sri Lanka talks
Apr.14 (AFP) - Peace broker Norway announced Friday that talks between the Sri Lankan government and Tiger rebels, under threat from a new wave of …
Blast and curfew mars Sri Lanka’s New Year
Apr.14 (AFP) - Two people were killed in fresh violence in Sri Lanka's restive east on the traditional New Year day Friday and an indefinite curfew …
Sri Lanka extends curfew after bloodshed
Apr.13 (AFP) - Police extended a night curfew in Sri Lanka's northeastern port district of Trincomalee on Thursday, a day after a bomb blast at a …
Sri Lanka Tigers seek to postpone Swiss talks
Apr.13 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels Thursday called for a postponement of ceasefire talks scheduled for next week in Switzerland amid an …
Infrastructure: Back to basics?
Apr.13 (LBO) - In the famous five classes that the JVP used for recruitment in the years before the first insurrection of 1971, a story was told …
Sri Lanka accuses rebels of targeting civilians
Apr.13 (AFP) - Tamil Tiger rebels have begun targeting civilians with a bomb attack on a crowded market that killed 17 people, the Sri Lankan …
US, Norway, condemns the latest acts of violence in Sri Lanka
Apr.12 (LBO) – The governments of United States and Norway Wednesday condemned the latest round of violence in Sri Lanka and urged both parties …
New blast pushes death toll to 21 and dims Sri Lanka peace hopes
Apr. 12 (AFP) - International concern mounted for Sri Lanka's peace efforts Wednesday as the third landmine attack in as many days raised the death …
Inflationary expectations low this year – poll
Apr. 12 (LBO) - An online poll of LBO readers has shown that inflationary expectations for 2005 are low. online pharmacy buy diflucan with best …
Market bomb kills 13, dims peace hopes in Sri Lanka
Apr. 12 (AFP) - A bomb ripped through a vegetable market in northeastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 13 people in the latest of a series of …