Tag: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka stock exchange blacks out foreign trading stats online
March, 01 (LBO) – Colombo Stock Exchange blacked out foreign trading statistics off automated trading terminals Thursday in a bid to reduce ‘market manipulation and discriminative practices’, the exchange said. “This is not an exercise to hide foreign buying and selling,” Rajeeva Bandaranaike, CSE’s head of marketing told LBO. “It would be shown at the […]
Sri Lanka airforce plane crash kills two
COLOMBO, March 1, 2007 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan air force trainee pilot and his instructor were killed Thursday when their plane crashed, an official said Thursday. The Chinese-built training aircraft crashed at Anuradhapura, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital during a routine exercise, an airforce official said, adding that investigations were underway. […]
Sri Lanka point-to-point inflation eases, but still at 10-year highs
February, 28 (LBO) – Consumer prices in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo fell 1.3 percent in the month of February easing 12-month inflation to 19.2 percent from 20.5 percent a month ago, the government statistics office said. The Colombo Consumer Price Index, the most widely watched index in the country, fell to 5116 points from 5184 […]
UN chief slams rebel shelling in Sri Lanka
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27, 2007 (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned a Tamil rebel artillery attack in Sri Lanka that injured several foreign diplomats, including a UN official, taking part in a humanitarian assessment mission.“The secretary general condemns the shelling” by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa district, “which […]
Sri Lanka Navy fires on unidentified ship off the south coast
February, 28 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Navy has fired on an identified ship off the island’s south coast after the ship ignored an order to halt and fired on a government vessel a Navy spokesman said. The spokesman said the vessel which had been contacted by Navy officials had given false identification and turned to […]
Use of Sri Lanka anti-terror law against media condemned by rights body
February 28 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s use of anti-terror law against the media has been condemned by the Reporters without Borders (RSF) which called for the release of a media official arrested two days ago. RSF called for the release of Dushantha Basnayake, financial director of Standard Newspapers, which publishes the Sinhalese-language weekly Mawbima, who […]
Getting Steadier
February, 27 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of Indian Oil Corporation emerging from a subsidy and pricing battle with the Sri Lanka government, has turned an operating profit for the past quarter, but interest costs still kept the firm in the red. The firm posted operating profits of 185 million for the quarter ended […]
US, Italian ambassadors wounded in Sri Lanka LTTE attacks
Feb 27, 2007 (AFP) – The ambassadors of the United States and Italy were wounded Tuesday in an artillery attack by suspected Tamil rebels in eastern Sri Lanka, Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe told AFP.Samarasinghe, who was accompanying a group of Colombo-based diplomats to the district of Batticaloa, said the attack came shortly after one […]
Japanese ambassador safe after Sri Lanka attack; Tigers say sorry
TOKYO, Feb 27, 2007 (AFP) – Japan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka is safe after Tamil rebels attacked a group of diplomats Tuesday, wounding the US and Italian envoys, the foreign ministry said.Ambassador Kiyoshi Araki was one of the diplomats who had flown in two helicopters to the island’s restive eastern Batticaloa district. “Our ambassador was […]
‘s Tigers after envoys hit
COLOMBO, Feb 27, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan jets bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday after the rebels shelled two military helicopters and wounded three Western diplomats, officials said.Air force aircraft attacked the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who admitted they shelled the landing points of military aircraft which […]
” Tigers attack
BEIJING, Feb 27, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s foreign minister condemned an artillery attack Tuesday by Tamil Tiger rebels that wounded the German, Italian and US ambassadors, saying it was a deliberate strike against the diplomats.“The government of Sri Lanka condemns this attack by the LTTE in the strongest terms,” Rohitha Bogollagama, who is accompanying […]
Sri Lanka leader brings elephant and jumbo delegation to China
BEIJING, Feb 26, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse began a week-long state visit to China on Monday — and showed up with an elephant as a gift as well as a large delegation, state media said.Rajapakse, in China to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between the countries, will meet Chinese President […]