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Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada protest fighting
OTTAWA, January 30, 2009 (AFP) – Hundreds of Tamils on Friday formed a human chain in downtown Toronto, Canada’s biggest city, to protest a Sri Lankan military push for victory against Tamil rebels. Toronto is home to the largest concentration of Tamils outside of Sri Lanka. Holding up banners decrying the Sri Lankan military’s latest […]
Sri Lanka, UN in anti-corruption effort
Jan 28, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are to launch a programme to fight corruption, a UNDP statement said.The project, called ‘Support Efforts and Action against Corruption in Sri Lanka’ (SEAC) will be a three-year effort aimed at combating corruption and promoting accountability and transparency in public […]
Indian foreign minister to visit Sri Lanka as rebels retreat: report
NEW DELHI, January 27, 2009 (AFP) – India’s foreign minister was set to visit Sri Lanka Tuesday as the Tamil Tiger rebels struggled to defend their last remaining strongholds, the Press Trust of India reported.Pranab Mukherjee was expected to meet Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to push for a lasting political solution to the long-running […]
Hedge Deal
Jan 27, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Tuesday terminated proceedings in a case against oil hedges by the state-owned refiner, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, with all interim orders that suspended payments to banks ceasing to be operative.The Supreme Court said it was terminating proceedings as the government did not comply with its orders to […]
‘s other war keeps media on the run
January 25, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lanka is in the grip of its biggest military offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, but the country’s journalists are also facing an unprecedented battle of their own. Unidentified attackers stabbed weekly newspaper editor Upali Tennakoon and smashed his car as he drove to work Friday in the latest in […]
Sri Lanka media freedoms under threat: US
January 24, 2009 (AFP) – Continuing attacks against journalists in Sri Lanka show the deteriorating conditions media workers face in the country, a statement released by the US embassy here said Saturday.In the statement, US State Department acting spokesman Robert A. Wood said the United States was appalled by ongoing physical attacks and threats against […]
Sri Lanka must act on violence against media: Amnesty
LONDON, January 23, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lankan authorities must ensure that the island’s media can work freely and safely, Amnesty International said Friday, as a string of violent attacks against reporters escalated.“By threatening journalists with the risk of arrest, and failing to protect them from attack, the government is failing its citizens.” The London-based […]
Media freedoms under threat in Sri Lanka: US
January 24, 2009 (AFP) – Continuing attacks against journalists in Sri Lanka show the deteriorating conditions media workers face in the country, a statement released by the US embassy here said Saturday.In the statement, US State Department acting spokesman Robert A.Wood said the United States was appalled by ongoing physical attacks and threats against the […]
Sri Lanka newspaper editor assaulted
Jan 23, 2009 (LBO) – An editor of a Sri Lankan weekly newspaper and his wife had been have been assaulted, a staff member said, weeks after an editor of a newspaper critical of the government had been gunned down. Noyahr then left the country. The ownership of the newspaper firm then changed hands. The […]
Sri Lanka urged to act on human rights abuses
Jan 22, 2009 (LBO) – Britain has urged the Sri Lankan government to take strong action to prevent human rights abuses and called on both sides to the ethnic conflict to ensure the safety of civilians. “Creating an environment in which people from all communities in Sri Lanka live without fear is essential to creating […]
Hedge Exposure
Jan 19, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank said its exposure to an oil derivative sold through People’s Bank would be 21.6 million dollars with oil at 35 dollars a barrel, which the state-run bank has so far not honoured. The contract is one of several arranged for state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) by […]
Indian Signal
Jan 15, 2009 (LBO) – India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) which has been given an off-shore oil block in Sri Lanka, will inform the island whether it will start exploration within a month, a media report said.India’s Economic Times newspaper said Sri Lanka’s oil minister A H M Fowzie had met Indian […]