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Fresh violence kills 26 in Sri Lanka
Sept 15, 2007 (AFP) – At least 26 people, including two security personnel, were killed in a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka’s embattled north, the defence ministry said on Saturday.More than 5,400 people have been killed in fighting in the past 21 months following the breakdown of a Norwegian-brokered truce. The two soldiers […]
Sri Lanka says Tiger flotilla suffers severe losses
Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s military Thursday said it caused “severe losses” in a combined sea and air attack against suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island’s northeastern waters, but gave no details of casualties.More than 5,400 people have been killed in fighting in the past 21 months following the breakdown of a […]
Sri Lanka moves to avoid criticism over rights abuses
Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka said Friday it was ready to accept foreign scrutiny of its human rights record in a bid to head off formal United Nations criticism over a spate of killings and disappearances.At the same time the war-torn island’s government, locked in a decades-old war with Tamil Tiger separatists, also […]
More Lube
Sept 14, 2007 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka has given approval for three more companies to sell lubricants in the island, raising to nine the number of companies in the market which is dominated by the US brand Caltex. Sri Lanka’s annual lube market is around 45,000 kilolitres. The new companies to enter the fray […]
Sri Lanka gets USAF help to mop up rotten teeth in newly captured areas
Sept 13, 2007 (LBO) – A team of U.S. Air Force medics has helped treat patients in territory recently captured from Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka’s east, the United States embassy in Colombo Thursday. “A nine-person team of USAF medics recently completed a medical/dental humanitarian assistance mission that benefited civilians living in the recently-liberated eastern […]
Sri Lanka jets bomb Tiger territory
Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s military said Thursday it had bombed the rebel-held north of the island and caused “heavy damage” to Tamil Tiger targets, but rebels said the attack only sparked panic among civilians.More than 5,400 people have been killed in the fighting in the past 21 months following the breakdown of […]
Sri Lankan police want pet dogs to fight terror
Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan police on Thursday launched an appeal for the public to donate their pet dogs to help the fight terrorism and crime on the war-torn island.“Make your pet a hero… to curb terrorism and make our motherland Sri Lanka a country with a new facelift,” the police department said […]
Price War
Sept 13, 2007 (LBO) – The bunker fuels subsidiary of John Keells Holdings, a top money-spinner of the group, looks set to face heightened competition with a rival supplier in Colombo port threatening to cut prices. The Sri Lanka Shipping Group, which sells ship fuel through its bunkering subsidiary, Lanka Maritime Services, has said it […]
Peak Price
SINGAPORE, Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) – Crude oil prices weakened in Asian trade Thursday on profit-taking after scaling new peaks on concerns over tight US supplies and hurricane worries, dealers said. At 10:35 am (0235 GMT), New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for October delivery dropped 25 cents to 79.66 US dollars a barrel […]
Gas Market
Sept 13, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka Auto Gas and Fuel Systems (LAUGFS) plans to set up a gas storage terminal in southern Galle at a cost of 12 million dollars, a top official said. Laugfs decided to build their own terminal because the liquid petroleum gas market was growing and also because of difficulties in […]
Sri Lanka issues tsunami alert; no warning
Sept 13, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has issued a tsunami alert following an aftershock of a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale in Indonesia at 05.19 am local time and asked people to await further instructions. Following are the message definitions used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States […]
Sri Lanka calls for Red Cross escorts for food ships to Jaffna
Sept 13, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process has urged the international Red Cross to resume escorting vessels taking supplies and passengers to the northern Jaffna peninsula by sea. It said in a statement that it was keen to reduce restrictions on movement between the north and south and to […]