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Sri Lanka hunts for sponsorships and volunteers for South Asian Games
July 14, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will host the tenth South Asian games in August, but is scraping the barrel for sponsorships and volunteers to pull it off. Required sponsorships have gone up from an expected 200 million rupees to 300 million, following unplanned expenses to upgrade the Sugathadasa Stadium. We have raised about […]
Italian makeover for Indian cricketers
NEW DELHI, July 14, 2006 (AFP) – India’s cricketers could soon be touring in Italian designer suits if a deal goes ahead with Milan-based fashion house Canali, an official said Friday.Canali has bid a handsome amount for the rights to provide jackets, trousers, shirts, ties and shoes for the players, Indian cricket board secretary Niranjan […]
France asks Sri Lanka parties to resume peace talks
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – France Friday asked Sri Lanka’s warring parties to resume peace negotiations amid an escalation of fighting and said a peace deal was still possible in the embattled South Asian nation.The outgoing French ambassador Jean Bernard de Vaivre said the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must stop using violence […]
Fresh fighting kills 17 in Sri Lanka
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka endured its worst fighting in almost a month on Friday as 12 soldiers and four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a fierce exchange of mortar fire, military officials and the Red Cross said.The fighting around the rebel-dominated village of Vakaneri was described […]
Three killed in Sri Lanka clashes
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Two soldiers and a sailor were killed by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka on Friday, authorities said, as a militant nationalist group denounced the government for allowing medical treatment to a leading rebel.The two soldiers were killed when the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired mortar bombs […]
Claymore mines found in Sri Lanka city
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Two powerful Claymore mines were found in Sri Lanka’s central city of Kandy and were defused by the military, the defence ministry said Friday.The two bombs were discovered Thursday night along a street in Kandy where the government’s defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella has a private residence, the ministry said. It […]
Sri Lanka’s trade deficit widens despite strong export growth in May
July 13, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s trade deficit expanded to 429 million dollars for the five months to May, amidst strong growth in export earnings. Exports from Sri Lanka rose 5.8 percent to 2,530 million dollars from Jan – May, as the island shipped more clothes, tea, rubber based products. During the month of […]
Island TV
July 13, 2006 (LBO) – A new Sri Lankan satellite channel took wing Thursday, with plans to tap into a captive market of customers who lost out to the recent shut down of local cable operators. The first test transmission is to take place before the end of July, after which it will be rolled […]
Bowling Wide
July 13, 2006 (LBO) – The controversial marketing firm GoldQuest has gone to the Court of Appeal in Sri Lanka asking for an opportunity to explain its position to the country’s central bank. They also asked court to direct the Central Bank to determine if GoldQuest’s marketing plan is against Sri Lanka’s Banking Laws, following […]
Bottled water in meaty flavours? Dogs lap it up
SYDNEY, July 13, 2006 (AFP) – Cool bottled water in three delicious flavours — beef, chicken and bacon. Not tempted? Your dog will be. An Australian man has taken pooch-pampering to the next level with the launch of Aqua Dog. With one canine for every five Australians, the country has one of the world’s highest […]
Sri Lanka President orders cricket elections to be put off
July 13, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse has ordered that elections to the country’s cricket body be cancelled and asked former players to run the game, the sports minister said on Thursday. Rajapakse intervened to end bitter infighting in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) after a meeting with 11 former cricketers, including World […]
Sri Lanka orders security for ailing Tiger spokesman
July 13, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president ordered protection for a Tiger rebel official undergoing medical treatment in Colombo despite severely strained relations between the two sides, a senior minister said Thursday.Media Minister Anura Yapa said President Mahinda Rajapakse had agreed to provide escorts to the Tamil Tiger media coordinator after he was brought […]