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Following is the address delivered by Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama at the fourth South Asia Economic Summit (SAES IV) Plenary Session: In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, there has been a noticeable shift in economic clout, moving from the USA and the debt-plagued countries of the Eurozone, to ...
- Asia Pacific trade and investment (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
- Challenging times for Asia Pacific (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
Races are scheduled to kick off from 7.00p.m on 17 December By Kshanika Argent For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history (with the exception of a brief period in the 60’s) Colombo will witness night races at the inaugural Colombo Night Races which coincides with the second Electric Peacock Festival, scheduled for this December. ...
- Colombo Night Races and Electric Peacock Festival in December (Category: Business)
- McLarens Formula the most competitive event at Colombo Night Races 2011 (Category: Business)
- McLarens Formula the most competitive event in Colombo Night Races 2011 (Category: Business)
- UML races to highest ever half yearly after tax profit (Category: Business)
‘World Chall-enge’ is a global contest conducted by BBC TV, Newsweek and Shell. During its six-year existence, Sri Lanka has been able to win the top prize not once, but twice. In 2006, it was ‘Maximus,’ a firm making paper out of elephant dung, that won this prestigious
- Jana Aragalaya now ‘Frontline Socialist Party’ (Category: Breaking News)
- For tourism, after BRICs, Lanka-included SLIMMA is the best (Category: Business)
- Results of 2012 SAARC Film Awards (Category: Business)
- ‘The Artist’ Wins Producers Guild’s Best Picture Award (Category: Business)
During the Leaders’ Forum of the 36th session of the UNESCO General Conference held on 26th October this year, Prof. Tissa Vitarana, Senior Minister for Scientific Affairs, made a statement based on the theme of the discussion “How does UNESCO contribute to building a culture of peace and to sustainable development”. Speaking at a plenary ...
- Prof. Vitarana in UNESCO Leader’s Forum in Paris (Category: Breaking News)
- Kapilavastu Relics exposition from Aug 19 (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Technology Marketplace’ exhibition now on at BMICH (Category: Business)
- Time to reconvene APRC, says Tissa Vitarana (Category: Breaking News)
British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Sri Lanka on Sunday to make progress on human rights before it hosts the next Commonwealth leaders meeting in 2013 to prevent the likelihood of boycotts, AFP reported. Cameron said he pressed President Mahendra Rajapaske during this year's Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Australia to show that Colombo did not "have things to hide" fol...
- David Cameron tells Lanka to make progress on rights by 2013 (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth sessions end with agreement on reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Britain urges SL to make progress on rights by 2013 (Category: Breaking News)
- Britain urges Sri Lanka to make progress on rights by 2013 (Category: Breaking News)
There seems to be a link between Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), illegal drugs and the recent murder of a presidential advisor, says the owner of a private media network. Shan Wickramsinghe, the owner of the TNL media network, told BBC Sandeshaya that ...
(Srilankamirror) - Players of the Sri Lanka national cricket team have not been paid in the past several months, the BBC reports. About 100 contracted players are not paid since Sri Lanka co-hosted the World Cup together with India and Bangladesh, it reports.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has confirmed that the national cricketers have not been paid their salaries for months. About 100 contracted players are not paid since Sri Lanka co-hosted the World Cup together with India and Bangladesh, BBC report. .
Sri Lankan represents global team of entrepreneursAspirations Edu-cation’s General Manager Deepamala Abeysekera became the only Sri Lankan to represent a group of 30 entrepreneurs in the world from, USA, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa, to read for her postgraduate studies in entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge has acquired an international reputation as an ...
- University of Cambridge International Examinations meets stakeholders (Category: Business)
- Cambridge Ruskin International College introduces Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in Camb... (Category: Breaking News)
- Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Networking for Rights says it is deeply concerned that the assault on Jaffna student leader, Subramaniam Thevapalasingham is a further erosion of the democratic rights of the people of Sri Lanka. In a statement, NfR says Thavapalasigham is reported to have been attacked with iron rods and is presently receiving treatment at the Jaffna Hospital. Thavapalsingham has sustained injuries to ...
- WASL to organize a protest march to Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Military abducted Lalith, Kugan’ (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP dissident from Jaffna missing since yesterday (Category: Breaking News)
- Another Jaffna undergrad assaulted (Category: Breaking News)
Liam Fox, the Former British Defence Secretary who was forced to resign is accused of seeking funds from wealthy Tamil businessmen in the UK. Former head of the UNP’s British branch Dr. Roger Srinivasan says he met Dr Fox few times accompanying an opposition parliamentarian visiting London during 2007-2009. Dr Fox requested him to introduce wealthy Tamils in UK at a time the Sri Lank...
- Harsha de Silva calls for Liam Fox fund probe (Category: Breaking News)
- Adam Werrity breaks silence, speaks also about Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil, reappointed IDU Asia-Pacific president, returns home (Category: Breaking News)
- Deputy minister boycotts Negombo mayor swearing-in (Category: Breaking News)
The ruling party in Sri Lanka should take the responsibility for the recent murder of a presidential advisor, his family members say. In an exclusive interview with BBC Sandeshaya, Swarna Guanaratne, elder sister of slain Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra said that the family is not satisfied
Military authorities in Sri Lanka say they are not aware of a serious assault on a Tamil student leader allegedly by military personnel. Military spokesman, Brig Nihal Hapuarachchi, told BBC Sinhala service that he has received no information about the alleged involvement of the military.
- Anandasangaree praises military (Category: Breaking News)
- US military unveils 'smart gun' (Category: Technology)
- War Drums (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka military presence reduced in former war zone (Category: Breaking News)
OCTOBER 17, 2011: Status: Not Free Legal Environment: 23 Political Environment: 30 Economic Environment: 18 Total Score: 71 Despite the end of the government’s long-running war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel group in May 2009, media freedom remained restricted in Sri Lanka, with journalists subject to myriad forms of legal harassment and physical intimidation. Altho...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan media gagged says RSF (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka’s government implement the LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
- Briefing note on the Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka - by Sri Lanka Advocacy Group (Category: Breaking News)
Impunity lies at the heart of the Kolonnawa killings “A foul, dishonourable crew….” Giaccomo Leopardi (To Angelo Mai III) By Tisaranee Gunasekara In the Rajapaksa Security State, insecurity is the common condition of the rest of us… Impunity makes jungles out of civilised societies, where the big and the powerful prey on those smaller and ...
- President accedes to SLFP demand, replaces Duminda (Category: Breaking News)
- Duminda Silva to be arrested after SC suspends pardon (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP defector to the SLFP Kudu Duminda kills Bharatha (Category: Breaking News)
- Court rules pardoning of Duminda Silva was unconstitutional (Category: Breaking News)
Noel Bruno Dawsan, a Sri Lankan, has been recognized as the world's best tour guide by the British travel magazine Wanderlust. The winner says he is delighted and will help disadvantaged people into further education with his bursary. A Tamil of Indian origin, he comes from a family of impoverished tea pickers in a remote Sri Lankan town. Mr. Dawsan was hailed by the judges as a ...
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- 13 SSPs promoted as acting DIGs (Category: Breaking News)
- WASL to organize a protest march to Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Baby girl for Aishwarya & Abhishek (Category: Breaking News)
British media reports that the Sri Lanka Development Fund, set up by Britain’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox has not achieved any results other than to pay for his trips to the island. The defence secretary has told the House of Commons that he had worked with people in business, banking and politics in Sri Lanka since 2009 to set up the Trust to help with reconstruction of the country aft...
- Duminda Silva is not a drug trafficker - Gotabhaya (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Will eliminate underworld, illegal drugs & weapons' (Category: Breaking News)
- Galle Dialogue 2011 opens (Category: Breaking News)
- Defeat of terrorism sets stage for national revival (Category: Breaking News)
British defence secretary Liam Fox is facing renewed political pressure after emails and video footage emerged appearing to contradict his explanation of his working relationship with a close friend, Adam Werritty. BBC reports that video revealed Mr. Werritty, who has no official role
- Adam Werrity breaks silence, speaks also about Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Robust' pledge by new defence secretary Hammond (Category: Breaking News)
- Liam Fox quits as defence secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- Liam Fox’s Sri Lanka Development Fund questioned (Category: Breaking News)
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- Numerous Hardships due to the Continuous Rain in Matara (Category: Breaking News)
- Emirates Offer Student Fares (Category: Breaking News)
- Tangalle victim 'raped' - AHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘TNA not genuine!’ (Category: Breaking News)
A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a Muslim shrine last week, the BBC has learned
Buddhist monks led a crowd that demolished a Muslim shrine in northern Sri Lanka last week, the BBC learns, amid calls for the government to act.
The Canadian prime minister has called upon heads of state to consider Sri Lanka’s human rights record before attending the Commonwealth leaders’ summit (CHOGM) to be held in Colombo. Answering a question by a journalist in Toronto, PM Stephen Harper said he has expressed his reservations on Sri Lanka hosting the 2013 summit. “I intend ...
- Hosting Rights (Category: Business)
- AUDIO: Canada calls for Sri Lanka boycott (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth leaders agree to be more proactive on human rights (Category: Business)
- Canada to press for Sri Lanka rights changes at Commonwealth meet (Category: Breaking News)
Dr. Craig Turner, EDGE Conservation Biologist from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Sri Lankan zoologist, Saman Gamage called on the British High Commissioner John Rankin recently to brief him about the work being done to protect the red slender loris. Until recently, the Horton Plains slender loris was believed possibly extinct. In 2009, ...
- Scientist on rare slender loris find (Category: Technology)
- Mysterious primate driven to the brink of extinction by Britain's taste for tea photographed for... (Category: Breaking News)
- Jetwing Vil Uyana featured as one of the 15 best eco hotels in the world by Condé Nast Traveller (Category: Breaking News)
- Exclusive recognition for Jetwing Vil Uyana (Category: Breaking News)
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- Numerous Hardships due to the Continuous Rain in Matara (Category: Breaking News)
- Emirates Offer Student Fares (Category: Breaking News)
- Tangalle victim 'raped' - AHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘TNA not genuine!’ (Category: Breaking News)
Those who attack military and police installations are terrorists and will be charged with countrys anti-terror regulations, says Sri Lanka military, BBC reports. .
Vavuniya Government Agent P. S. M. Charles yesterday blasted the BBC for twisting war-related news to compromise the national reconciliation process. An irate Ms Charles said that a calculated attempt was being made to deceive people living here and abroad regarding the number of missing in Sri
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 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
A former official at Sri Lanka Cricket has told the BBC it signed a five-year deal allowing a foreign company to run SLPL.
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