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Sri Lanka markets volatile as Tamil Tigers strike southern port
October 18, 2006 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan rupee clawed back from Tuesday’s all-time low on profit taking by most banks, while stocks snapped a two-day slide, following a seaborne attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on the Galle port early Wednesday.Call rates transacted in the brokers’ market were 12.60 percent over a shortfall over around […]
Sri Lanka tourism counts on peace talks to salvage winter season after Galle port attack
Oct 18 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is counting on proposed peace talks to salvage the peak winter season, following Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Galle. The winter season starts in November, with the industry expecting occupancy levels in the South to be in the region of a low 55 percent even before the attacks. […]
Networking Skills
Oct 18, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) has teamed up with Australia’s Curtin University of Technology to introduce an undergraduate Computer Systems and Networking course. The three year program covers hardware and software as well as computer communication and networking incorporating Local Area Networks (LANs), Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and […]
Citizendium
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 17, 2006 (AFP) – A co-founder of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia written in collaborative fashion by the Internet community announced Tuesday he is launching a rival service edited by experts.A test version of “Citizendium” to be launched this week in Harmon, California will use experienced editors and subject authorities to tune information […]
‘s popular Galle
GALLE, Sri Lanka, Oct 18, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels staged an audacious suicide attack against Sri Lanka’s historic port of Galle Wednesday, killing at least two people and destroying three navy craft, officials said.The attack in Galle — a popular tourist destination regarded as Sri Lanka’s Riviera — came as foreign envoys pushed […]
Sri Lanka jets bomb Tiger territory: rebels
Oct 18, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan war planes bombed Tamil rebel-held territory in the island’s restive east Wednesday, killing a woman and wounding two others, the guerrillas said.The air force had been carrying out tit-for-tat attacks since the guerrillas attempted to assassinate army chief Sarath Fonseka in April.Two Israeli-built Kfir jets attacked the village […]
Sri Lanka exhumes bodies of French charity workers
Oct 18, 2006 (AFP) – The bodies of 15 aid workers massacred in Sri Lanka were exhumed in the northeastern town of Trincomalee on Wednesday in a fresh bid to determine who killed them, police said.The victims were among 17 mostly Tamil workers with the Paris-based Action Against Hunger (ACF) who were gunned down August […]
Two killed in major suicide attack on Sri Lanka port
Oct 18, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels disguised as fishermen staged a suicide attack against Sri Lanka’s southern port of Galle Wednesday, killing at least two sailors and destroying three gunboats, officials said.The attack in Galle — an historic city and popular tourist destination — came as foreign envoys pushed for the Sri Lankan […]
Police open fire to quell rioting after Sri Lanka port attack
Oct 18, 2006 (AFP) – Police opened fire and wounded three people Wednesday in a bid to quell rioting in the southern Sri Lankan town of Galle after Tiger rebels staged a suicide bombing against the naval port there, officials said.Mobs tried to attack shops owned by minority Tamil businessmen at Kittangi, a suburb of […]
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Oct 18, 2006 (AFP) – A seaborne attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on the Sri Lankan port town of Galle on Wednesday has highlighted the guerrillas’ lethal “Sea Tiger” arm, whose suicide wing claims to have inspired Al-Qaeda.Suspected rebel suicide bombers using at least five boats infiltrated Galle’s harbour and attacked a key naval […]