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COLOMBO, Feb 23, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Friday issued two commemorative World Cup stamps in a bid to boost its cricketers ahead of the tournament starting in the Caribbean next month. “What we are trying to do is to encourage the players. We don’t want to put any undue burdens, but just to […]

February 21 (LBO) – Following the rapid spread of urbanization in Sri Lanka, local architects say more efficient and economical design methods must be adopted. In the field of architecture in Sri Lanka, there has not been any serious deliberation on sustainability, says Chandana Edirisuriya, Vice President Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA). In South […]

February 21 (LBO) – The World Bank is helping tens of thousands Muslim victims of Tamil Tiger ‘ethnic cleansing’ who were driven out of the northern Jaffna peninsular, to build their own homes through a new project approved this week. Recent fighting in eastern Sri Lanka has created new refugees, but some have started to […]

TYRE, Lebanon, Feb 21, 2007 (AFP) – The body of a Sri Lankan housemaid, missing since Israeli missiles struck the building where she worked during last summer’s war in Lebanon, was found Wednesday, police said.The body of the 35-year-old woman, whose name was not given, was found on the seventh floor of the building in […]

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 […]

February 16, 2007 (LBO) — SriLankan Airlines says it is running out of cargo space at Colombo’s international airport, while a newly-built facility lies empty over a rent dispute.The issue is likely to remain a sticky point as the government drags its feet to over the renewal of SriLankan’s management agreement with Emirates which is […]

Feb 14 (LBO) – Traders and businessmen could easily navigate through Sri Lanka’s plethora of taxes and customs regulations, through a single searchable database being rolled out for public use in March, officials said. The new database will hold all of the country’s customs regulations, related laws, taxes and other levies as well as preferential […]

February 14 (LBO) – Former tourism Anura Bandaranaike may come back to the government with the aviation portfolio, a senior government minister said. vimasuma.com Newsdesk Updated . Bandaranaike Wednesday met President Rajapakse in the company of Minister Dinesh Gunewardene and Western Province Governor Alavi Moulana a spokesman from the presidential secretariat said. The meeting was […]

February 12 (LBO) – Sri Lanka wants an investment protection agreement with the Maldive Islands, visiting Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse said, while calling for expansion of bi-lateral trade and joint action on tourism. The islands need foreign labour to run its booming low-inflation economy. . Sri Lanka’s top business conglomerates, such as John Keells and […]

Feb 12, 2007 (LBO) – In the deep south of Sri Lanka, native vegetation at a fragile wetland nature reserve is being chocked-out by an implacable foreign invasion. The Bundala national park, designated a globally valuable resource under the Ramsar convention on wetlands, covers 3698 hectares of scrub jungle and water bodies bordering the coast […]

Feb 03 (LBO) – Large numbers of refugees in Sri Lanka are at increased risk of insect borne diseases and failing health, with officials looking for new and novel ways to fight off infection. The number of Sri Lanka™s internally displaced people (IDP) has gone up by 2.8 percent between April 2006 and the end […]

February 09 (LBO) – A ship carrying essential foodstuff from India is due to reach the Jaffna peninsular next week, an official said. The first ship had brought of 3,200 tonnes of essential foods and this ship would have 1,000 tonnes of rice, 500 tonnes of sugar among its cargo, Nalin Fernando, chairman of the […]