Sri Lanka plans medical help to Myanmar
May 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning to send a team of medical doctors and nurses to Myanmar, the foreign ministry said. Media reports said around …
May 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning to send a team of medical doctors and nurses to Myanmar, the foreign ministry said. Media reports said around …
May 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's road development bureaucracy is hugely overstaffed and a drain on public funds and unable to effectively maintain the …
May 05, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's shares closed marginally higher with retail interest in Sri Lanka Telecom and Carsons pushing indices higher, brokers said …
May 05, 2008 (LBO) – Construction work on a new port in Oluvil on Sri Lanka's east coast is to start on Tuesday as part of government efforts to revive …
BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - Europe's truckers would have to pay for the pollution, traffic jams and noise they cause if the European …
MADRID, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - The head of the Asian Development Bank announced on Monday the establishment of a Climate Change Fund to combat the impact of …
TOKYO, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - Japan's ruling party is considering plans to encourage foreign workers to stay in the country long-term, a daily reported Monday …
SYDNEY, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring price of food is breaking the budgets of the poor and …
SHANGHAI, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - A Chinese government watchdog has warned major state-owned enterprises to brace for tough times given the likelihood of a …
PHNOM PENH, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that a proposed OPEC-style rice cartel in Southeast Asia would ensure global food …
PARIS, May 4, 2008 (AFP) - Researchers in China have pinpointed an elusive gene that plays a linchpin role in determining the harvest potential of rice, …
DAKAR, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - Senegal's outspoken President Abdoulaye Wade late Sunday called for the scrapping of the UN food agency, saying its inefficiency had …
COLOMBO, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's main media rights group on Monday voiced alarm after the island's hawkish defence chief reportedly branded some …
May 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank, which earlier protested an International Monetary Fund study on external impacts on inflation, has …
May 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank is keeping interest rates suppressed and below the inflation rate to reduce government borrowing costs and …
May 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka bombed a rebel storage facility on Sunday, while heavy fighting in the island's north claimed the lives of at least 35 Tiger …
May 4, 2008 (AFP) - Heavy fighting in northern Sri Lanka killed at least 18 Tiger rebels and one soldier, the defence ministry said Sunday. online pharmacy buy …
May 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's state-run budget carrier has suspended operations indefinitely because of a lack of planes, an aviation official said Sunday. …
MADRID, May 4, 2008 (AFP) - India's inflation rate, which jumped to a more than three-year high last month, is a "big concern" for the government as it heads …
MADRID, May 4, 2008 (AFP) - Asian nations are in talks over the creation of a multinational 80-billion-dollar (52-billion-euro) foreign exchange pool to be …