Sri Lanka aid donors get security guarantees for workers
May 29, 2007 (AFP) - Key Sri Lankan aid donors Tuesday announced the government had offered security guarantees for their workers who have been accused by …
Deal Flow
May 29, 2007 (LBO) – Globeleq, a unit of CDC investment group which is raising a billion dollars by selling power sector assets in Sri Lanka and other …
Sri Lankan capital on alert after bomb kills seven civillians
May 29, 2007 (AFP) - Security forces and police stepped up security in the Sri Lankan capital on Tuesday after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside …
Power Foothold
May 28, 2007 (LBO) – The Malaysian firm Tanjong, controlled by billionaire Ananda Krishnan, has taken a foothold in Sri Lanka's power sector by acquiring …
Roadside bomb kills seven near Sri Lanka military base
May 28, 2007 (AFP) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside blast near an air force base just outside Sri Lanka's capital Monday, killing at least …
Fresh Sri Lanka violence kills nine
May 27, 2007 (AFP) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a road side bomb in eastern Sri Lanka Sunday, killing three civilians as six more people were killed …
Sri Lanka conflict to continue in the months ahead: analysts
May 27, 2007 (AFP) - A new wave of air and naval combat is likely in Sri Lanka as government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels step up battles that have killed …
Japan under pressure over Sri Lanka aid
TOKYO, May 26, 2007 (AFP) - An international human rights group is lobbying Sri Lanka's top donor Japan to exert greater pressure on the island nation to …
Slipping In
May 25, 2007 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of the Indian Oil Corporation is planning to boost its 13 percent share in the island's lube business after …
Oil Numbers
May 24, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation has posted higher profits in the March quarter helped by a provision write-back and …
Sri Lanka navy held Delft islet in Jaffna attacked by Tamil Tigers
May 24, 2007 (AFP) - Heavy clashes erupted Thursday between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels on a remote islet off Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna …
Tamil Tigers strike Sri Lanka capital, naval base
May 24, 2007 (AFP) - Tamil Tiger rebels blew up an army bus in Sri Lanka's capital Thursday, killing at least one soldier, just hours after the guerrillas said …
Sri Lanka backtracks on opposition to French FM
May 24, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka distanced itself Thursday from opposition to Bernard Kouchner, who was named by the European Union to monitor human rights on …
Sri Lanka warplanes bomb Tamil Tiger targets
May 22, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a suspected Tamil Tiger training facility inside rebel-held territory on Tuesday, the defence ministry …
Four dead in fresh violence in Sri Lanka
May 21, 2007 (AFP) - Four members of Sri Lanka's security forces were killed and five wounded in separate attacks by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday, …
Sri Lanka rebels say no peace talks until fighting stops
May 20, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil rebels on Sunday vowed never to return to peace negotiations unless the government halts a military campaign …
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers abducted us, say Indian fishermen
CHENNAI, India, May 20, 2007 (AFP) - Eleven southern Indian fishermen who went missing in March returned at the weekend alleging that they had been abducted at …
Six killed in Sri Lanka fighting
May 20, 2007 (AFP) - Six people were killed and 10 others were wounded as government troops traded fire with Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's war-torn north, …
Five family members massacred in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 19, 2007 (AFP) - Five family members, including two boys aged four and eight, were hacked to death on Saturday in a town just outside the Sri …
Sri Lanka fighting kills 20 Tamil rebels
May 17, 2007 (AFP) - Security forces shot dead at least 20 Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka in a fresh outbreak of fighting, the defence ministry said …