Tag: Sri Lanka
Dirty Limit
BEIJING, March 7, 2007 (AFP) – China will no longer allow new coal-based power generators with a capacity below 300,000 kilowatts to be built, hoping to alleviate pressure on the environment, state media reported Wednesday.New coal power generators should be equipped with facilities to reduce sulphur and soot emissions, the China Business News reported, citing […]
More Power
March 07, 2007 (LBO) –Mini hydro company Vidullanka has connected a new plant to the national grid the company said Wednesday, which can boost its energy production by more than 66 percent. Vidullanka which operates a 3.2 MegaWatt (MW) plant said a 2MW plant in Batatota has now been connected to Ceylon Electricity Board. The […]
Sri Lanka to probe charities for alleged Tiger links
COLOMBO, March 7, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s military will probe charities for alleged links with Tamil Tiger rebels, defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said Wednesday.The government has accused foreign and local non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the embattled north and east provinces of helping the Tigers with logistics, a claim the charities deny. “The defence […]
Sri Lanka finds five more corpses
March, 06 (LBO) – Five burnt bodies have been discovered in the north central Sri Lankan district of Anuradhapura, police said Tuesday. Tirappane police said the bodies were found near the village of Thuruvila in the Anuradhapura district. Anuradhapura is more than 200 kilometres away from Colombo in the north central province of Sri Lanka. […]
Sri Lankan police track killer groups and kidnappers
COLOMBO, March 6, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s police admitted Tuesday that its own security personnel have been involved in kidnappings for ransom and vowed to crack down on mounting abductions and killings of civilians. Colombo also faced censure over the killing of 17 local employees of a French charity in August. Scandinavian monitors blamed […]
Sri Lanka steps up security for diplomats after attack
March 3, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka is stepping up security for diplomats following a Tamil rebel attack against a helicopter in which envoys were travelling, the foreign ministry said Saturday. The ambassadors of Italy and the United States and a UN coordinator were among more than a dozen people wounded in a shell attack […]
Sri Lanka finds bodies of five victims killed execution-style
March 3, 2007 (AFP) – The bodies of five men shot in the head with their hands tied together and blindfolded were found Saturday by Sri Lankan police, who called the deaths an apparent “execution-style killing”. The grisly find in a marsh at Kandana, 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of the capital, was made after […]
China Port
March, 02 (LBO) – The Chinese government would finance up to 85 percent of a planned 420 million dollar a port in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambanthota district, the government’s information office said. “Following the bilateral discussions with the Chinese Government with President Rajapaksa, the Chinese President and Prime Minister have promised to hasten the aid,” […]
Sri Lanka war planes bomb suspected Tiger camp
COLOMBO, March 2, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan war planes bombed a suspected Tiger rebel camp in the northeast on Friday as part of an increased offensive against the guerrillas, a defence official said.“Using MIG 27 jet planes, the air force took Tiger targets in the Thoppigala jungles,” military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told AFP, […]
Indonesia would send Sri Lankans home
JAKARTA, March 2, 2007 (AFP) – Indonesia said Friday that dozens of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka would be sent home and not allowed to stay if Australia decides to send the group back its way.Australia picked up 85 boat people last month after they passed through Indonesia and are holding them on Christmas Island […]
Sri Lanka sovereign rating weighed down by weak budgets, war, public employment
March 02 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s weak public finances which leave little room for the country to counter shocks and an ongoing war are weighing heavily on its credit rating, Fitch Ratings said.Sri Lanka has a BB- sovereign rating with the outlook downgraded to negative in April 2006 after the conflict intensified, which is now […]
Sri Lankan warplanes bomb suspected Tiger positions
COLOMBO, March 1, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan jets bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in northeast Sri Lanka on Thursday, a day after Colombo stepped up an offensive against the rebels, killing at least 18 people, a statement said.Air force MIG Jet aircraft attacked a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) training camp in Vavuniya, […]