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July 14, 2006 (LBO) – The local cinema industry is trying to get a 15 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on theatre tickets lifted from August, top officials said Friday. The government has agreed in principle to exempt theatre tickets from VAT, from August 1, and we have to now prepare a Cabinet memorandum to […]
Tsunami aid worth 7,100 dollars per person: study
GENEVA, July 14, 2006 (AFP) – The outpouring of international aid in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami translated into an average of 7,100 dollars per affected person, according to a new report Friday.The study by the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC), an international group of aid agencies, said that donors’ generosity contrasted starkly […]
In India, women fight harassment of “Eve teasing”
BANGALORE, India, July 14, 2006 (AFP) – On the streets of this booming Indian city, Laura Neuhaus says she is constantly on guard against men who brush against her body. “People run up and grab my butt, my breast and brush against me purposely,” Neuhaus says. “It happens so fast.” “I will be walking with […]
‘s cricket
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s only World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga is among four cricketers recommended by ex-players to run the sport in the island nation, sources told AFP on Friday.Elections to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), scheduled to be held on Saturday, were cancelled on the advice of the country’s President Mahinda […]
Sri Lanka hunts for sponsorships and volunteers for South Asian Games
July 14, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will host the tenth South Asian games in August, but is scraping the barrel for sponsorships and volunteers to pull it off. Required sponsorships have gone up from an expected 200 million rupees to 300 million, following unplanned expenses to upgrade the Sugathadasa Stadium. We have raised about […]
Italian makeover for Indian cricketers
NEW DELHI, July 14, 2006 (AFP) – India’s cricketers could soon be touring in Italian designer suits if a deal goes ahead with Milan-based fashion house Canali, an official said Friday.Canali has bid a handsome amount for the rights to provide jackets, trousers, shirts, ties and shoes for the players, Indian cricket board secretary Niranjan […]
France asks Sri Lanka parties to resume peace talks
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – France Friday asked Sri Lanka’s warring parties to resume peace negotiations amid an escalation of fighting and said a peace deal was still possible in the embattled South Asian nation.The outgoing French ambassador Jean Bernard de Vaivre said the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must stop using violence […]
Fresh fighting kills 17 in Sri Lanka
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka endured its worst fighting in almost a month on Friday as 12 soldiers and four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a fierce exchange of mortar fire, military officials and the Red Cross said.The fighting around the rebel-dominated village of Vakaneri was described […]
Three killed in Sri Lanka clashes
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Two soldiers and a sailor were killed by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka on Friday, authorities said, as a militant nationalist group denounced the government for allowing medical treatment to a leading rebel.The two soldiers were killed when the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired mortar bombs […]
Claymore mines found in Sri Lanka city
July 14, 2006 (AFP) – Two powerful Claymore mines were found in Sri Lanka’s central city of Kandy and were defused by the military, the defence ministry said Friday.The two bombs were discovered Thursday night along a street in Kandy where the government’s defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella has a private residence, the ministry said. It […]
Sri Lanka’s trade deficit widens despite strong export growth in May
July 13, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s trade deficit expanded to 429 million dollars for the five months to May, amidst strong growth in export earnings. Exports from Sri Lanka rose 5.8 percent to 2,530 million dollars from Jan – May, as the island shipped more clothes, tea, rubber based products. During the month of […]
Island TV
July 13, 2006 (LBO) – A new Sri Lankan satellite channel took wing Thursday, with plans to tap into a captive market of customers who lost out to the recent shut down of local cable operators. The first test transmission is to take place before the end of July, after which it will be rolled […]