All Blogs
Sri Lanka-Abu Dhabi cricket tour row hots up
May 27, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan cricket’s governing body hit back at the national team’s chief selector Sunday, after his dismissal of last week’s one-day series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi as “absolutely ridiculous.” An official at Sri Lanka Cricket said they had sent two letters to Asantha de Mel, the chairman of selectors, […]
Sri Lanka conflict to continue in the months ahead: analysts
May 27, 2007 (AFP) – A new wave of air and naval combat is likely in Sri Lanka as government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels step up battles that have killed more than 5,000 people since peace talks collapsed, analysts say. British High Commissioner Dominick Chilcott said: “The only solution to this massive disruption of […]
Fresh Sri Lanka violence kills nine
May 27, 2007 (AFP) – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a road side bomb in eastern Sri Lanka Sunday, killing three civilians as six more people were killed in separate clashes, police said.The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) blast blew up a truck, killing the three people at Thirukkovil, a police official […]
Extradition Quest
May 26, 2007 (LBO) – The Philippine government has asked for arrested operators of the Questnet referral schemes in which tens of thousands of poor Asians and Africans have lost money, to be formally extradited, reports said. Earlier in May, the public face of the Quest International (QI) group, Vijayeswaran Vijayaratnam, director Joseph Luis Tomacruz […]
” players for cash
May 25, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s senior cricket officials on Friday clashed over this week’s one-day series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi, with the chief selector dismissing it as “absolutely ridiculous. ” Asantha De Mel said the series was too soon after the World Cup, criticising Sri Lanka Cricket which organised the lucrative one-day […]
Japan under pressure over Sri Lanka aid
TOKYO, May 26, 2007 (AFP) – An international human rights group is lobbying Sri Lanka’s top donor Japan to exert greater pressure on the island nation to address spiralling violence. But Tokyo said it has no plans for now to slash aid and follow the lead of Sri Lanka’s former colonial ruler Britain and Germany, […]
Dubai Flight
May 25, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka government and Emirates airlines would soon have discussions on extending Srilankan Airlines’ management deal with the Dubai based carrier, a top official said. “A team is coming to meet the President on this,” Finance Ministry Secretary P B Jayasundera told LBO Friday. Dubai government-owned Emirates has a 10-year […]
General Growth
May 25, 2007 (LBO) – Janashakthi Insurance Co. Ltd, says general insurance premiums grew 37 percent in the first quarter with motor insurance growing 40 percent. The general insurance has grossed 1,028 million rupees, which was up 277 million for the March quarter. Gross written premium of the life side has also grown 27 percent. […]
Brent hits nine-month high, New York light sweet low
NEW YORK, May 24, 2007 (AFP) – Crude oil prices closed mixed Thursday as the market focused on healthy stocks of crude in the United States and the contested nuclear program of oil producer Iran. New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July, dropped 1.59 dollars to end at 64.18 […]
No Moody blues as Sri Lanka give him perfect farewell gift
ABU DHABI, May 22, 2007 (AFP) – World Cup finalists Sri Lanka gave their Australian coach Tom Moody an ideal goodbye here on Tuesday as they beat Pakistan by 115 runs in their third and final one day international.Sri Lanka – whom Moody has been coach of since 2005 – made 296-9 off 50 overs […]