Sri Lanka seeks help for tens of thousands in Lebanon
July 24, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is seeking urgent help to evacuate workers trapped in Lebanon, despite the vast majority of its estimated 80,000 nationals …
July 24, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is seeking urgent help to evacuate workers trapped in Lebanon, despite the vast majority of its estimated 80,000 nationals …
July 18, 2006 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan watchdog has halted its probes into the disappearance of thousands of people so that the government can avoid paying …
JAKARTA, July 17, 2006 (AFP) - Five people were killed when waves hit buildings on the south coast of Indonesia's Java island Monday after a strong undersea …
July 11, 2006 (LBO) - Do infrastructure reforms increase disparities between the wealthy areas around Colombo and the rest of the country? Do they yield kiri …
July 7, 2006 (AFP) - A fresh attempt to hammer out a bipartisan approach to Sri Lanka's drawn out Tamil separatist conflict ended abruptly with the defection …
July 5, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka will study devolution models across the world before developing a power-sharing mechanism with Tamil Tiger rebels to end …
July 3, 2006 (LBO) - The Information and Communication Technology Act, No 27 of 2003, was a watershed for a number of reasons. It created a fully government …
DHAKA, July 3, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has postponed a visit to Bangladesh next week due to a full schedule at home, the foreign …
DHAKA, June 23, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse will visit Bangladesh next month, the foreign ministry said Friday. Rajapakse would hold …
June 21, 2006 (LBO) - Recently there was a news report on innovative policing on the Colombo-Kandy road. On two days of the week, the traffic police would …
June 8, 2006 (LBO) – Some time ago I wrote a column http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/normal-or-peculiar-standard-time/ about changing the time standard: It …
May 25, 2006 (AFP) - The Scandinavian truce monitoring mission in Sri Lanka wants to boost its numbers by at least 25 percent and is outfitting observers with …
May 22, 2006 (LBO) - Most people trying to move across the city of Colombo in recent days have experienced increased difficulties. A trip that used to take 20 …
May 12, 2006 (LBO) - The May/June 2006 issue of the international affairs monthly, Foreign Policy, carries an article entitled "The Failed States Index" …
May 01, 2006 (LBO) - It appears that lordships have been sold in the UK, again. Tony Blair, who criticized the Tories for selling honors, is on the back foot, …
Apr.30 (AFP) - Up to 21,000 people have fled their homes following the latest spike in violence in Sri Lanka's northeastern district of Trincomalee, the United …
Apr. 27 (AFP) - Five headless corpses were found in central Sri Lanka but police said Thursday the incident was not linked to the island's conflict with Tamil …
Apr. 27 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist conflict is rooted in the nation's history, but the past three decades have been the bloodiest on an island …
Apr.13 (LBO) - In the famous five classes that the JVP used for recruitment in the years before the first insurrection of 1971, a story was told about tea. It …
Mar. 28 (LBO) - I was at a meeting in Delhi in early March when I first heard the acronym KPO, of course without being spelled out. online pharmacy buy …