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SYDNEY, July 19, 2013 (AFP) – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Friday announced that no more boatpeople will be resettled in Australia as refugees, with all unauthorised arrivals to be sent to poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea.Australia will also contribute funds to reform the impoverished Pacific nation’s university sector and support other health, education and law and […]
Anti Migrant
July 19, 2013 (LBO) – Boat people arriving in Australia from countries like Sri Lanka and others may be settled in Papua New Guinea and other developing countries, media reports said. AFP news agency quoting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said Australia has struck a deal with PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to process and settle […]
European lawmakers press Sri Lanka to probe war crimes
COLOMBO, July 19, 2013 (AFP) – European parliamentarians Friday asked Sri Lanka to deliver on promises to investigate allegations of war crimes and ensure ethnic reconciliation more than four years after crushing Tamil separatists.A delegation of EU lawmakers requested Colombo ensure accountability in the face of what the UN calls “credible allegations” of up to […]
Sri Lanka exports down 1.5-pct, apparel up in May
July 19, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s exports fell 1.5 percent to 793.9 million US dollars in May 2013 from a year earlier, but apparel exports rose 2.1 percent to 318.9 million US dollars, official data showed. Agricultural products exports fell 6.8 percent to 197.9 million US dollars in June from a year earlier, rubber […]
Port Road
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – A 260 million dollar circular highway around Sri Lanka’s Northeastern port city of Trincomalee will be built by a Chinese contractor with financing from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a minister said.Information minister Keheliya Rambukwelle said the cabinet of ministers had awarded the building contract to Hunan Road […]
Micro Oversight
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will begin regulating micro financing institutions with large entities coming directly under the central bank information minister Keheliya Rambukwelle said.A third category coming under the Commissioner of Co-operative Development and Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Divineguma Department will be exempted from Central Bank regulations. They will come under existing […]
Ranking
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Bank of Ceylon said it had been ranked as one of the 1,000 top banks in the world by UK-based The Banker Magazine, ahead of other domestic banks. Bank of Ceylon has over 10 million customers and is the largest commercial bank by assets in Sri Lanka. […]
‘s northern agri-biz fair set to go
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – An agri business fair in Killinochchi, a former war zone in the northern Sri Lanka is ready to open on July 26 with all stalls filled, its organizers said.The event has been supported backed by the Governor of the Northern Province, the military and state officials, the organizers said. The […]
Krrish denies Sri Lanka allegations, says investor confidence shaken
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – India’s Krrish group which is involved a property project in Sri Lanka has denied wrongdoing and said recent media reports had shaken the confidence of investors it was in talks with. Katyal thanked official who advised and supported the group’s entry and asked those raising concerns to “understand the correct […]
Sri Lanka fines cricketer for mid-air antics
COLOMBO, July 18, 2013 (AFP) – Sri Lankan cricket chiefs handed down a fine Thursday of nearly ,000 to a batsman who tried to force open a cabin door of a British Airways flight at 35,000 feet (10,600 metres).Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said Ramith Rambukwella had been fined 50 percent of his tour fees after […]
Sri Lanka scraps T20 cricket tournament
COLOMBO, July 17, 2013 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s cricket administrators scrapped their Twenty20 league Wednesday after franchise holders defaulted on payments for the tournament and failed to guarantee payments to players, a top official told AFP.Sri Lankan Cricket decided not to go ahead with the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) tournament and sack the seven […]
‘s latest household income and expenditure
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) is my favorite among all the surveys done by the government. Where else do you get information as granular as how much Kelawalla fish people buy? Given the ICT Agency’s stated commitment to open data, I was expecting data in Excel at least, […]