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Sri Lanka president raps police chief, invites Tamils back
June 8, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president Friday criticised his police chief for evicting hundreds of minority Tamils from the capital and ordered them to be brought back immediately, an official said.Sri Lanka’s main opposition said the move was similar to what Hitler did to the Jews in the early days in Germany.President Mahinda […]
US condemns Sri Lanka Tamil evictions from capital
June 8, 2007 (LBO) – The United States Friday condemned the eviction of ethnic Tamils without jobs from Colombo, and asked the government to reveal where they were taken. Sri Lanka’s police say the move was aimed at blocking Tamil Tiger guerillas from infiltrating the capital, setting off explosions and engaging in other subversive activities. […]
UN see pattern in Sri Lanka aid worker killings
GENEVA, June 7, 2007 (AFP) – The murder of two Red Cross workers in Sri Lanka appears to be part of a trend in which aid workers are deliberately targeted, two United Nations human rights experts said Thursday. Sri Lankan Red Cross workers Sinnarasa Shanmugalingam and Karthekesu Chandramohan were abducted in the capital Colombo last […]
Rights groups accuse Sri Lanka over evictions
June 8, 2007 (AFP) – Human rights activists accused Sri Lanka’s government Friday of imposing a “collective punishment” on its minority Tamil community after forcing hundreds of them out of the capital. Activists and opposition politicians said the expulsions from Colombo, a measure the government said was to prevent Tiger terror attacks, had added to […]
Badly mutilated bodies found near Sri Lanka airport
June 8, 2007 (AFP) – Nine badly mutilated bodies were found in a garbage dump just north of Sri Lanka’s international airport Friday, police said, prompting officers to start a bigger search.“We don’t know the identity of the victims,” a local police official said by telephone. “We are now digging the area because there could […]
Sri Lanka court halts eviction of Tamils
June 8, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Friday ordered an immediate halt to the eviction of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital, a day after hundreds were expelled at gunpoint, a court official said. The Court issued the order following a complaint by a political activist group that Thursday’s police operation was a […]
Clipped Wings
June 7, 2007 (LBO) – DFCC Bank has been asked to cut its 28.98 percent stake in Commercial Bank to 15 percent under Sri Lanka’s banking laws, the development financier said. Commercial Bank of Ceylon has informed DFCC Bank that if the stake was not cut by October 23, 2008, DFCC its voting rights would […]
Inflated Fines
June 07, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s capital markets watchdog is planning to impose stiffer penalties as part of an overall revamp of key statutes governing the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), a top official said. The authorities have recently introduced a new company law and new corporate governance rules are being made mandatory for listed […]
Positive Growth
June 7, 2007 (LBO) – Alcatel-Lucent, the largest telecom equipment manufacturers in the world, opened a branch in Sri Lanka Thursday saying sales have doubled in the island during the last two years. “All the south Asian markets are very competitive. We will continue to provide support to our customers and we will push for […]
No More
June 07, 2007 (LBO) – A pioneer of Sri Lanka’s information technology sector, who headed two government agencies dealing with ICT and also founded a computer faculty in Sri Lanka has passed away. . Professor V. K. Samaranayake, 68, had died in Sweden, Wednesday, a spokesperson for Sri Lanka’s ICT Agency of which he was […]