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Tobacco control reduces Canada heart disease deaths
OTTAWA, June 22, 2009 (AFP) – Heart disease deaths dropped 30 percent in Canada between 1994 and 2004, likely as a result of fierce campaigns against smoking and bad cholesterol, a study said Monday. Researchers noted a rapid decline over 10 years in the number of related deaths from 360.6 to 252.5 per 100,000 people, […]
‘s south gets new tea factory
June 23, 2009 (LBO) – A new tea factory has been set up in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota district where high-priced low grown teas are cultivated by small farmers, the government information department and the Tea Board said.But Hemaratna said the new one in Hambantota had been approved before the decision and was also outside […]
Sri Lanka Tata tea unit warns of tough wage talks
June 23, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations, whose profits fell sharply last year, has warned talks on a new wage deal with labour could be tough as most firms in the tea industry face cash flow problems. Sathasivam said that it is only to be expected that wages and input prices will increase […]
Dispute Resolution
June 22, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is hosting an international conference on arbitration with the Singapore International Arbitration centre on June 27, the island’s Association of Corporate Lawyers (ACL) said. Held under the theme of ‘Transnational Perspectives on Arbitration’, the conference is targeted at arbitrators, in-house counsel, litigators, legal officers, government officials, banks and […]
UN says two staff members arrested in Sri Lanka
June 20, 2009 (AFP) – The United Nations said on Sunday that two of its employees working among tens of thousands of war-displaced civilians had been arrested by Sri Lankan authorities.The two men, both ethnic Sri Lankan Tamils, were reported missing eight days ago and were subsequently discovered to have been taken into custody by […]
India asks US, China to restart stalled Doha round
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2009 (AFP) – India on Thursday called on the United States, China and other powers to return to talks immediately to frame a world trade accord instead of waiting for recovery from the global economic crisis.“We live in times when the people are anxious.This economic challenge cannot be resolved by waiting and […]
Michelin to invest 1.0 billion euros in India: report
NEW DELHI, June 18, 2009 (AFP) – French tyre giant Michelin, which has announced plans to shed nearly 1,100 jobs in France, may invest more than one billion euros (1.39 billion dollars) over 10 years in a factory in India, an Indian newspaper reported Thursday.The group declined to confirm the amount but recalled that it […]
Sri Lankan tea production falters in May
June 19, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tea production in May dropped 22.7 percent to 25.54 million kilos from a year ago owing to the effects of drought, a Tea Board official said. Tea production in the year to May was down 26.9 percent to 105.5 million kilos but a recovery is expected in the […]
Doomed mammoths hung on for several millennia: study
PARIS, June 17, 2009 (AFP) – Woolly mammoths survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago, around 6,000 years longer than previously thought, according to a study released Thursday.The study should settle a raging debate over the extinction of mammoths in Europe, unleashed when fossils from an adult male and four youngsters were found in the […]
Pakistan arrests Sri Lanka cricket attack suspect: police
LAHORE, June 17, 2009 (AFP) – Pakistani police said Wednesday they had arrested one of seven men from a shadowy Taliban-linked group accused of plotting the deadly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.Six policemen and two civilians were killed and seven Sri Lankan squad members were injured when militants launched a gun […]
India enters deflation as economy slows
NEW DELHI, June 18, 2009 (AFP) – India’s annual inflation rate slipped into negative territory, official data showed Thursday, with the country’s slowing economy cutting into demand.Inflation stood at minus 1.61 percent for the week ended June 6, down from 0.13 percent the previous week, according to the Wholesale Price Index, India’s most watched cost-of-living […]
Fin
June 18, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s top rights panel said Thursday it has concluded investigations into the murder of 17 local employees of a French charity and six other high profile cases from the island’s civil war.The head of the probe, however, refused to say who had been found responsible for the 2006 massacre […]