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Hindu priest shot dead after welcoming Sri Lanka president
Feb 8, 2007 (AFP) – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels shot dead a Hindu priest who welcomed President Mahinda Rajapakse to a former guerrilla bastion in the island’s east, military officials said Thursday. Selliah Parameswar was dragged out of his house in Batticaloa district and shot dead late Wednesday by a group of unidentified gunmen, officials […]
” by US peace envoy call
Feb 8, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Thursday said it was not ‘unduly worried’ over a proposal to US President George W.Bush by American lawmakers to appoint a special envoy to help bring peace to the embattled Indian Ocean island.Sri Lanka cabinet spokesman and Media Minister Anura Yapa said Colombo believed the US would continue […]
Oil Deposit
February 07, 2007 (LBO) — Sri Lanka has asked governments of India and China to make a 100 million dollar deposit each, for securing a block to explore oil off the shores of the island, a top official said.“Out of the eight identified oil blocks we have given one each to India and China on […]
Call to free detained journalists in Sri Lanka
Feb 7, 2007 (AFP) – International media rights groups have demanded the release of three Sri Lankan journalists who went missing earlier this week in the capital Colombo.Media organisations have described Sri Lanka as one of the most dangerous places for journalists in South Asia. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged President Mahinda Rajapakse […]
Post Men
Feb 06, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is boosting is postal service with thousands of new postmen, the country’s outgoing posts minister said. Former posts and telecommunications minister D M Jayaratne, who was replaced in a recent cabinet re-shuffle, said Sri Lanka post had received state approval to recruit 5,000 postmen and 4,000 substitutes. The […]
Option Collar
February 6 (LBO) – The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation will hedge up to a quarter of its diesel imports using options, with the first contract to be signed in a matter of days, officials said Tuesday.. Ceypetco wanted to cap the diesel import price at around 70 dollars a barrel, but the price had already moved […]
Blast injured count climbs to 17
COLOMBO, Feb 6, 2007 (AFP) – At least 17 people were hurt Tuesday when a grenade was accidentally detonated during a demonstration by a police officer at an exhibition in the capital marking Sri Lanka’s independence, police said.. Headline corrected “We have ruled out anyone hurling a grenade at the stall of the STF (Special […]
Gas Change
February 06, (LBO) – Ceylon Petroleum Corporation would call open tenders to sell the liquid petroleum gas produced at its refinery, Petroleum Minister A H M Fowzie said. Laugfs Gas, the company which had a 5-year contract to buy the LP Gas from Ceypetco had been given a 3-month extension until April 21. Laugfs now […]
US congressmen ask Bush to appoint peace envoy for Sri Lanka
WASHINGTON, Feb 5, 2007 (AFP) – A group of 38 US lawmakers have asked President George W.Bush to appoint a special envoy to help bring about peace in conflict-ridden Sri Lanka. The legislators from the House of Representatives said in a letter to Bush that they were troubled by renewed violence and a rising number […]
British Tamils pressured into donating money to Tigers: report
LONDON, Feb 4, 2007 (AFP) – Ethnic Tamils living in Britain are being pressured into donating money to support Tiger rebels in their native Sri Lanka, facing harassment if they refuse, The Times reported in an early edition of its Monday newspaper. According to the newspaper, which interviewed a number of Sri Lankan Tamils living […]
Two killed in Vavuniya after peace call in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Feb 5, 2007 (AFP) – Two people were killed and five others injured in ethnic violence in Sri Lanka, a day after the president invited Tiger rebel proxies to join his government, the defence ministry said Monday.Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels hit an army camp in the island’s restive northern town of Vavuniya, killing a […]
Sri Lanka marks national day amid tight security
Feb 4, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka was set to mark independence day on Sunday amid heightened security and calls from the president for fresh peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels to end more than three decades of bloodshed.As the island prepared to celebrate its national day, police discovered a powerful bomb in the capital […]