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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 seven people and wounding 39, police and doctors said.More than 5,000 people have been killed in a new wave of fighting since December 2005 despite a truce […]
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 an international energy firm with investments in the country, the company said Monday. In a filing at the Kuala Lampur stock exchange Tanjong said it had taken over Globeleq, a […]
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 more than 5,000 people since peace talks collapsed, analysts say. British High Commissioner Dominick Chilcott said: “The only solution to this massive disruption of […]
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 in separate clashes, police said.The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) blast blew up a truck, killing the three people at Thirukkovil, a police official […]
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 address spiralling violence. But Tokyo said it has no plans for now to slash aid and follow the lead of Sri Lanka’s former colonial ruler Britain and Germany, […]
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 getting the government nod to enter the licensed industry, the company said Friday. The company said the secretary of Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources […]
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 the tropical island and is France’s new foreign minister.Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said he was not against Kouchner, even though the troubled island’s ambassador-designate to Geneva […]
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 supply of refined products to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. Lanka IOC posted net profits of 874 million rupees in the 3-months to March (344.7 million rupees in […]
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 peninsula, military sources said.Government troops and Tamil rebels have been locked in combat following the breakdown of a 2002 Norwegian-arranged truce. Nearly 5,000 people have died in the last 18 […]
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 they had also stormed a naval base and killed 35 sailors. The escalation in violence came days after the Tigers, who have been fighting for a […]
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 said.Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the latest surge of fighting that began in December 2005, according to the defence ministry.Warplanes hit an area south of Mankulam, about 300 kilometres […]
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, the defence ministry and police said. A mine that targeted troops travelling in a tractor in the northern district of Vavuniya killed two soldiers and injured four others, […]