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Feb 05, 2008 (LBO) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) have opened a National Centre for Migration Statistics in Colombo. . “As a country with high outward migration, Sri Lanka needs reliable statistics on migration patterns and flows to formulate effective migration policies,” said IOM […]

Sri Lanka should ensure that growth in exports last year spread its benefits wider to reduce poverty and unemployment, a senior minister said as inflation hit a new high in the island. The government’s export policy has been remarkably successful in the past year with an across-the-board development of exports by 15 percent, minister of […]

Feb 03, 2008 (LBO) – An explosion inside a zoological garden in a southern suburb of the Sri Lanka capital Colombo has injured four, the military said, a day after a bus bombing killed 20 civilians in the central province of the island. Sri Lanka pulled out of a ceasefire with the Tamil Tigers, who […]

Feb 03, 2008 (LBO) – A blast ripped through Sri Lanka’s main railway station in the capital Colombo, the military said, within hours of an explosion in the main zoo which injured seven. For the latest on this story go to www.lbo.lk front page or click here for updates . . The security media centre […]

Feb 03, 2008 (LBO) – An explosion at the main railway station in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo has killed five people and injured more than 80 police said, hours after a grenade inside a zoo injured seven. The security media centre of the defence ministry said the explosion occurred at 2.05 pm. Military spokesman Brigadier […]

Feb 03, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s independent English weeklies have slammed decades of mismanagement as a war-ravaged island wracked by inflation and corruption prepares to mark 60 years of freedom from British rule on February 04.“What we are now confronted with is a nation in peril, at the mercy of foreign aid donors dictating […]

Feb 02, 2008 (LBO) — An explosion at a bus station in north-central Sri Lanka Saturday killed at least 13 people and wounded 20, police said. The Tigers have been blamed for blasting a bus in southern Sri Lanka on the same day that the ceasefire expired. A spate of farmer killings in the southern […]

Feb 01, 2008 (LBO) – Janashakthi Insurance has tied up with India’s ICICI Bank to launch bancassurance services in Sri Lanka but says high capital requirements and regulations in India constrain access to the competitive market on the sub-continent. Janashakthi Insurance Company Thursday signed a bancassurance agreement with ICICI Bank to promote insurance to banking […]

Jan 30, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s condominium regulator has issued over 200 certificates for high rises that are coming up in and around the capital, a top official said. “We have issued 183 full and complete certificates, and several semi-condominium certificates, Condominium Management Authority chief Abul Kalam said A semi-condominium certificate is issued to […]

Jan 29, 2008 (LBO) – A top apparel group in Sri Lanka has started an education institute to boost soft skills in English, information technology and apparel manufacture to the bridge gap in the island’s education system. “My vision is to see Sri Lanka recognized as a destination for knowledge and innovation within the next […]

Jan 25, 2008 (LBO) — Australia is looking to supply coal to Sri Lanka’s power stations and also provide clean coal and natural gas technology that can improve the efficiency of thermal generation, its envoy to Colombo has said. “The government of course has plans to develop coal fired power generation in Sri Lanka and […]

DUBAI, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan maid, in transit on her way home from Kuwait to see her children for the first time in three years, hanged herself in a toilet at Dubai airport, an Emirati daily said on Thursday.The report came just two days after the oil-rich Gulf states reached agreement […]