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Sri Lanka says huge truck bomb found in eastern port town
June 29, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan authorities Friday discovered a huge truck bomb in the north-eastern port district of Trincomalee, three days after finding a powerful mine in the capital, officials said.About 1,000 kilos (2,200 pounds) of explosives packed into a freezer truck was found at a fishing village in Trincomalee, 260 kilometres (160 […]
Sri Lanka to bring back tough law to curb media: reports
June 29, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka plans to bring back a tough criminal defamation law that was scrapped five years ago, reports said on Friday, drawing fire from media rights activists.Under the earlier law, journalists could be sentenced to two years in jail, but it was scrapped after local and international pressure. The reports […]
” in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, June 29, 2007 (AFP) – The United States has voiced concern about the fate of 355 Sri Lankans who “disappeared” in recent months amid an escalation of the island’s ethnic conflict, the government here said Friday.US ambassador Robert Blake gave a list of 355 names of people whose whereabouts were unknown, the foreign ministry […]
Seven people wounded in Sri Lanka blasts
COLOMBO, June 29, 2007 (AFP) – At least seven people, including three soldiers, were wounded in two roadside bomb attacks in Sri Lanka’s north on Friday, officials said.Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a Claymore mine at Cheddikulam in the district of Vavuniya as a civilian bus passed the area and wounded four civilian passengers […]
Britain prosecutes Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger members for helping terrorism
LONDON, June 28, 2007 (AFP) – Two men appeared in court in London Thursday accused of membership of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels, banned in Britain as a terrorist organisation. Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, also known as AC Shanthan, 50, and Goldan Lambert, 29, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court, central London, charged under the Terrorism Act 2000. […]
Upward Revision
June 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has raised fuel prices by around 5 percent almost two months after the last price increase, after allowing petroleum utilities to run huge losses and the national currency to come under pressure. . Standard 90-octane petrol would increase by 5 rupees to 111 while standard auto Diesel would […]
Sri Lanka inflation jump 3.2 percent in June; yearly numbers trend down
June 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s inflation rose 3.2 percent in June, though the 12-month increase in consumer prices fell to 13.0 percent from 13.7 percent, the government’s statistics office said. The seasonally adjusted increase in the Colombo Consumer Prices fell to 17.0 percent from 17.4 percent in May, the Department of Census and […]
Chinese Squeeze
June 28 (LBO) – Sri Lankan exporters look set for difficult times with freight rates on the rise and their cargo being squeezed out of container ships chock full of Chinese exports, a top freight forwarder said Wednesday. “We do have a problem,” Niral Kadawatharatchie, chairman of the Sri Lanka Freight Forwarders’ Association told its […]
Own Fleet
June 28 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s national shipping line has shelved plans to acquire a tanker for crude oil imports and is going ahead with the purchase of a cargo vessel to supply the northern Jaffna peninsula, an official said Ceylon Shipping Corporation (CSC) officials said a cargo ship is the more urgent requirement because […]
Indian Bypass
June 28, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan exporters are being squeezed as fewer container ships heading west call into Colombo, with global shipping lines moving more business to India and its booming economy. Both projects have been delayed for over a decade because of poor government policy and analysts fear that further delays could see […]