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The plantation sector in Sri Lanka is “in turmoil” as a result of the recent hike in workers’ salaries, tea traders say. Jayantha Keragala, the chairman of Ceylon Tea Traders Association (CTTA) has told BBC Sandeshaya that the industry is not faced with an immediate crisis due
- Dust tea exporter arrested by CID (Category: Breaking News)
- e-sale of tea waste, packaged tea (Category: Business)
- A daily cup of tea, for a healthy heart and body (Category: Business)
- More dust tea seized from Galle (Category: Breaking News)
According to latest report of Global Peace Index (GPI), Sri Lanka ranked 126 while Norway ranked in ninth place. Here we are talking about the riots that took place in UK recently and the same GPI ranked the UK in 26th place (100 places ahead of Sri Lanka). A series of incidents erupted in England ...
- SL among top 5, best for weddings – Kouni (Category: Business)
- Why does Sri Lanka need more tourists from China? (Category: Business)
- Terrorism Risk Index 2011: Sri Lanka safer than UK (Category: Breaking News)
- SL’s human development record improves (Category: Business)
A BBC film crew get inside the head of the world's largest venomous animal.
A son of Muammar Gaddafi, previously reported captured, made a surprise appearance with jubilant supporters in Tripoli overnight, urging loyalists to fight off rebels who say they control most of the Libyan capital. Saif al-Islam, seen as his father’s chosen successor, visited the Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying to declare that the government ...
- “Zero hour” for Gaddafi as besieged Tripoli rises up (Category: Business)
- Price on Gaddafi’s head as rebels plan for future (Category: Business)
- All Sri Lankan workers return from Libya (Category: Business)
- Muammar Gaddafi dead of wounds following capture - Reuters (Category: Breaking News)
Tendulkar falls nine short of 100th centuryLONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters): England swept to a series whitewash over India in the fourth test at the Oval on Monday after Sachin Tendulkar had been dismissed nine runs short of a 100th international century. Seven wickets fell for 21 runs on the final day, after Tendulkar and nightwatchman ...
- Sri Lanka v England: late Graeme Swann wickets put tourists on top on day of high heat and hot t... (Category: Breaking News)
- Herath the hero as Sri Lanka beat England (Category: Business)
- England-India Series Disappointingly One-Sided (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka v England: Graeme Swann backs captain Andrew Strauss following second day in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
By S. V. Kirubaharan - in France Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” — Julius Henry, Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star (1890-1977). When life is smooth and everything goes in the right direction, normal civilians can become President, Prime Minister ...
- Ex-IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn, wife separate (Category: Business)
- WORLD ROUNDUP – By Dinouk Colombage (Category: Breaking News)
- Euro zone crisis reaches France, turns existential (Category: Business)
- French President’s partner dubbed the new Iron Lady (Category: Business)
Rare behaviour of queen ants working together has been recorded by a BBC film crew.
TNA parliamentarian Sivashathi Anandan told BBC that the jungles of Kombavil in the Mullaitivu district is being cleared for resettlement.
Rarely-seen behaviour of ant queens working together has been recorded by a BBC film crew.
BBC listeners can record a one minute voice message using Skype.
A peregrine falcon found injured on the roof of BBC Scotland's headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow is released back into the wild.
Journalists at the BBC are taking part in a second 24-hour strike over compulsory redundancies A BBC spokesman said that the disruption had been less than expected
BBC science reporter Victoria Gill joins a team of scientists on a mission to study the wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
A young Diaspora Tamil will perform Wednesday evening alongside leading South Indian vocalist Aruna Sairam at the first Carnatic concert as part of the BBC Proms. Veena virtuoso Hari Sivanesan, the latest recipient of the BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy, is a student of Smt Sivasakthi Sivanesan
NATURAL disaster zones were yesterday declared across a further three regions in NSW as wild weather hammered the state for the fifth day in a row.
BBC correspondent Charles Haviland recently secured unconfined access to Kilinochchi, once the headquarters of the Tamil Tigers.
BBC science coverage is "high quality" but the corporation must make a distinction "between well-established fact and opinion", a review finds.
A former official at Sri Lanka Cricket has told the BBC it signed a five-year deal allowing a foreign company to run SLPL.
Journalists at the BBC are taking part in a 24-hour strike in a row over compulsory redundancies
Financial constraints, maritime regulations and campaigns by activists will not stop Japan sending its whaling fleet back to the Antarctic, a senior official tells the BBC.
July 11, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army has strongly rejected a BBC news report that said the people in Kilinochchi who protested against Britain's Channel4 video were tricked into protesting by the Army.
Refuting unsubstantiated allegations in "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields", Acting High Commissioner P M Amza questioned the motive behind Channel 4's vindictive campaign against Sri Lanka.
"The BBC will make an on-screen apology to fashion chain Primark after a report found it was 'more likely than not' that it included faked footage", so says a Daily Mail Reporter on June 16.
On Air, BBC answers to a London Call for Aunty Beeb. Her Randy Niece is Channel 4.Both live off portions of state licensing revenues while Aunty is the recipient of government grants; Aunty and Niece have to street walk to collect funds to survive - sources being predominantly fat cat corporations.
- This run is for you, Aunty (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
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- It’s all about the kids this Sunday - Kiddies Guzzle at Continental Sunday Brunch (Category: Business)
A Sri Lankan housemaid says she was not paid for over 15 years by employers in Saudi Arabia. GD Kusuma Nandani was speaking to BBC Sandeshaya from the Olaya detention...
Army Spokesman Major General Ubaya Madawela told BBC Sandesshaya that they have received a copy of t..
Parameswaran Subramanyam, the Tamil hunger-striker speaks to BBC on his court battle against British media.
Tanzania will go ahead with plans to mine uranium in the Selous Game Reserve - a UN World Heritage site - a minister tells the BBC.
Refuting unsubstantiated allegations in "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields", Acting High Commissioner P M Amza questioned the motive behind Channel 4's vindictive campaign against Sri Lanka.
Callum Mcrae, the producer of the notorious documentary, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” took part in a discussion aired by the Asian Network of the BBC on Wednesday.
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