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Moonlighting army moves garbage in tourist paradise
MALE, Oct 29, 2007 (AFP) – The Maldives is known as an upmarket holiday destination with squeaky clean beaches, but it’s an army of moonlighting Bangladeshis who keep the capital from sinking under a mountain of rubbish. The less than one square mile (two square kilometre) Male is one of the world’s most densely populated […]
Murali likely to miss Test warm-up
BRISBANE, Australia, Oct 30, 2007 (AFP) – Star bowler Muttiah Muralitharan is expected to be rested for Sri Lanka’s final warm-up match ahead of next week’s first cricket Test against Australia at the Gabba here.Captain Mahela Jayawardene indicated the spin wizard would sit out the three-day game with Queensland starting on Friday after his marathon […]
Sri Lanka military says 13 rebels killed
Oct 30, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan security forces killed 13 more Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh clashes across the north of the island, the defence ministry said Tuesday. Troops killed 10 rebels during an overnight attack along the military defence lines in the Jaffna peninsula, the ministry said in a statement. It said one […]
Mini Hydro
Oct 30, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan mini hydro power company Vidullanka Tuesday said net profit for the first half ending September 30, 2007 was up nine percent year-on-year to 24.6 million rupees. Group revenue rose 13.5 percent to 83.5 million rupees over the same period, according to interim results sent to the Colombo bourse. […]
Game Chat
October 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will play host to a crucial meeting of the Commonwealth Games Federation general assembly next week to select a venue to host the 2014 games, organisers said Monday. More than 400 delegates from 71 Commonwealth nations who will gather in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo from November […]
Middleware Hire
Oct 30, 2007 (LBO) – WSO2, the open source middleware company, has hired software engineer Glen Daniels as director of Java platforms, a company statement said. Daniels, recently named a vice president of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will be responsible for the general technical direction and architectural consistency of all WSO2 Java products. œWSO2 […]
Dollar plunges to record low against euro
LONDON, Oct 29, 2007 (AFP) – The dollar plummeted to a record low against the euro Monday, as the European single currency rose to 1.4438 dollars on speculation US interest rates will be lowered again this week, analysts said. The euro was later trading here at 1.4426 dollars against 1.4391 in New York late on […]
Sri Lanka Murali claims four wickets in drawn tour match
ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct 29, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan claimed four wickets in a drawn-three day tour match against the Cricket Australia Chairman’s XI at Adelaide Oval here Monday ahead of the Test series against Australia.Muralitharan claims four wickets in drawn tour match Muralitharan, eight wickets short of Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne’s […]
‘s supreme attempt to curb pollution in a transport hub
Oct 29, 2007 (LBO) – The Supreme Court is going to do to traffic in Colombo what it did to Year One admissions to popular schools. It has ordered the submission of an action plan to reduce air pollution caused by vehicles in Colombo city by mid November 2007. Presumably, it will then hand down fine-grained […]
Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers developing refined tax system
Oct 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers are developing a sophisticated tax collection system to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora for its war that appears to rival that of legitimate governments in efficiency, new research shows. The Tigers are developing a system in Europe, where much of the Tamil diaspora resides, in […]