Category: Industry
Outward Bound
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 to take leaf from Indian cricket book
Australia, Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said his team were looking to copy India and take the attack to Australia on their own turf during the triangular one-day cricket series. Sri Lanka play their first game in the tournament when they take on India at the Gabba here Tuesday, weather […]
Zoo Blast
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 […]
Railway Blast
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 […]
Sunday Bombings
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 […]
Sobering Thoughts
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 […]
Sri Lanka wants security after egg attack on Murali
SYDNEY, Feb 3, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Sunday said it has asked Cricket Australia for beefed up security in the aftermath of an egg attack on its touring cricketers and officials in Hobart, Tasmania. Sri Lankan team manager Shriyan Samararatne confirmed the incident happened on Thursday night and said an egg thrown from a […]
Export Benefits
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 […]
Sri Lanka thrashed by Tasmania in one-dayer
HOBART, Australia, Feb 2, 2008 (AFP) – Opener Sanath Jayasuriya was hit in the jaw as Sri Lanka slumped to a disappointing defeat here Saturday in their final warm-up match before the triangular series against India and Australia.The Sri Lankans beat the Prime Minister’s XI comfortably on Wednesday in Canberra, but Tasmania thrashed them by […]
Sri Lanka Cricket says South Africa pull-out helped push it in to red
Feb 2, 2008 (AFP) – South Africa’s decision to quit a triangular one-day series in 2006 caused Sri Lanka’s hard-up cricketing body to lose 11 million dollars, a top official said here Saturday.Ranatunga said SLC was currently surviving on a six-million dollar bank overdraft, but India’s Test and one-day tour of Sri Lanka in July-August […]
Bus Blast
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 […]
Refined Product
Feb 01, 2008 (LBO) – Two UAE petroleum firms have won Sri Lankan government approval to build the island’s second refinery with an investment of 1.2 billion dollars, a senior minister said. . Trans Asia Gas International LLC and Star Petro Energy LLC of the UAE plan to build a 100,000 barrels-per-day refinery in the […]