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Flawed Process
Nov 21, 2012 (LBO) – Friday Forum, a citizen group said impeachment proceedings launched against Sri Lanka’s chief justice was “deeply flawed” and is perceived as an attack on institution that is independently working in the public interest. The Friday Forum said the process by a select committee was flawed and has attracted criticism from […]
Paradise Isle
Nov 13, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s move to allow tax free racing cars may sound like a pacifier for the rich kids of politicians, but the move could actually be aimed at cultivating a new culture to improve farm-related transport. The 2013 budget took away the 300 percent tax on super luxury racing cars […]
Sri Lanka toddy tappers face extinction
WADDUWA, Sri Lanka, Nov 12, 2012 (AFP) – Clambering between high trees carrying a knife in the search for sap to brew alcoholic drinks is a young man’s game — and Sri Lanka’s ageing toddy tappers say the craft is dying. “I don’t know for how long I can continue this because it is becoming […]
Sri Lanka cigarette labeling put off till March 2013
Nov 11, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s health ministry has put off till March 2013, graphic labeling designed to educate consumers on the cancer and heart disease causing effects of cigarette smoke. Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Tobaccco Company, a unit of British American Tobacco, went to courts against the new rules which gave three months for […]
Denial
Nov 09, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s chief justice has denied charges in an impeachment motion in parliament, giving details over allegations of undeclared assets and the purchase of propety in a letter sent through her lawyers to the media. “Our Client instructs us to state that she will, as always, continue to duly and […]
Sri Lanka should cut high food taxes to reduce malnutrition: science minister
Nov 08, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should cut high food taxes which will make proteins more accessible to the poor and reduce malnutrition among small children, science and technology minister Tissa Vitharana has said. “I looked into this question of nutrition, and there is evidence that there is some increase of acute mal-nutrition, really […]
Sri Lanka raises crop planting subsidies
Nov 08, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government will increase subsidies to encourage small farmers expand tea, rubber and coconut cultivation, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. Small farmers account for the bulk of the production of the three main agricultural export commodities, Rajapaksa, who is also finance minister, told parliament while presenting the budget for 2013. […]
Impeachment
Nov 07, 2012 (LBO) – Charges made public against Sri Lanka’s chief justice in an impeachment motion signed by more than a 100 ruling coalition parliamentarians include non declaration of assets and the purchase of a house. Sri Lanka’s ruling administration has been has been unhappy at several rulings of the supreme court in recent […]
‘s begging wild elephants: making it safer for man and animal
Nov 06, 2012 (LBO) – Feeding of begging wild elephants in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park, can be made safer for both man and animal if it is formalized as a supervised process, where fees are charged, a wildlife enthusiast has suggested. S M S Senadhipathi, a wildlife enthusiast says though elephants lining up for […]
Heist Fine
COLOMBO, Nov 5, 2012 (AFP) – A Chinese man who swallowed a fake stone in a daring bluff that allowed an accomplice to get away with a real diamond pleaded guilty Monday to aiding theft and was given a fine and two-year suspended jail term. Colombo chief magistrate Rashmi Singappuli ordered the 32-year-old man to […]
Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods: Stanford study
Nov 05, 2012 (LBO) – Researchers at America’s Stanford University have found little evidence to back a widespread belief that organic foods which are sometimes twice as expensive as conventional ones, gives more health benefits, a report has said. A team led by Dena Bravata, a senior affiliate with Stanford’s Center for Health Policy, and […]
Legal Protest
Nov 5, 2012 (AFP) – Hundreds of Sri Lankan lawyers took to the streets of Colombo on Monday protesting against a government move to impeach the country’s top judge in an increasingly bitter dispute. Lawyers marched from the Supreme Court to the city centre denouncing efforts by President Mahinda Rajapakse’s United People’s Freedom Alliance party […]