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Summary Justice
January 19 (LBO) – Saudi Arabia has beheaded four Sri Lankans by the sword including a man serving a jail sentence, reports from the desert kingdom said, bringing an abrupt end to a three year struggle by rights organizations and the prisoners themselves for clemency. An AFP news agency report quoting the Saudi Press Agency […]
Executed
RIYADH, Feb 19, 2007 (AFP) – Four Sri Lankans convicted of armed robbery were beheaded by the sword in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Monday, the interior ministry said. Victor Korea, Ranjith De Silva, Santhosh Kumar and Sharmila Sangeeth Kumar were executed for robbing a number of businesses at gunpoint, the ministry said in […]
Loud Numbers
February 19, 2006 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest cellular phone operator, Monday posted a 44 percent rise in net profits for the 12 months to December, and said it plans to cover 100 percent of the island by end 2007. A unit of Telekom Malaysia, Dialog Telekom, reported a 10.12 billion rupee group […]
Joy and pain as train blast survivors arrive in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb 19, 2007 (AFP) – Desperate relatives defied police and forced their way into the carriages that arrived here Monday evening with survivors of the train blast in India.“They are known for attacks on trains in India,” he said. Joy and pain as train blast survivors arrive in Pakistan =(PICTURE)= ATTENTION – RECASTS […]
Police unearth over 400 baby bones in India
BHOPAL, India, Feb 19, 2007 (AFP) – Police were investigating Monday a hospital’s involvement in illegal female foeticide after 437 baby bones were dug up close by the complex, a state government said Monday.Police began unearthing the bones on Saturday from Christian Medical Hospital, in central Madhya Pradesh state, after a tip-off that medical staff […]
Sri Lanka look to deliver huge surprise at World Cup
NEW DELHI, Feb 19, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka will be keen to maintain their recently-acquired reputation of doing consistently well away from home when they begin their World Cup campaign in the Caribbean.None of the three other sub-continent sides can match an impressive record of Mahela Jayawardene’s Sri Lankans, who won more than 50 […]
Sri Lanka exports to India drops for the first time on trade wars
Feb 19 (LBO) – For the first time in a decade, Sri Lanka’s exports to India dropped last year, following trade disputes over the island’s duty free access into India for vegetable oil, spices and copper. Sri Lanka and India have duty free or preferential access into each other’s markets for over 4000 goods, under […]
Transparent Record
February, 18 (LBO) – Sri Lankan borrowers would be allowed to ask for their own credit reports and request changes if they are not correct, from the country’s central credit information centre, an official said. Before the changes even loans that are repaid in full, were a permanently of a borrwer’s credit report. Sri Lanka […]
Fuel subsidies feed marine ecology disaster: scientists
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17, 2007 (AFP) – An international team of marine experts on Saturday called for an immediate ban on fuel subsidies to deep-sea fishing “bandits” blamed for plundering stocks and ravaging undersea ecosystems.The grouping of leading fisheries economists, biologists and ecologists said governments around the world were indirectly funding the destruction of fragile […]
British debt relief to Sri Lanka held back over human rights and defence spending
Feb 18 (LBO) – Millions of pounds worth debt-relief to Sri Lanka is hanging in the balance with Britain saying that queries have been raised over human rights, rising defence spending and ongoing hostilities. The British move comes within months of Germany halting new aid to the country. In 2005, Britain has agreed to pay […]
Sri Lanka hopes for spark from South Asian motor rally
Feb 17, 2007 (LBO) – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the largest regional group in the world by population, is to kick off a rally to spark interest in member country hotspots and tourist attractions. The rally is to set off in Dhaka in Bangladesh and will take the ground routes through […]
Occult Politics
February, 17 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s is supposedly a vibrant democracy with its political destiny decided by a population that got universal suffrage in 1931, but the island’s leaders seem to believe their future is controlled by sublime forces of the occult. Sri Lanka’s former foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera newly-sacked from the government, is said […]