Roaming Multiple
June 14, 2012 (LBO) - South Asians continue to pay more for their international roaming call charges when they travel within the region, despite a pledge in …
Sri Lankan lantern makers feel the pinch from Chinese rivals
May 5, 2012 (LBO) – They are round in shape, colourful, sturdy, covered with cloth, with a little Buddhist flag competing for attention among pictures of …
Sri Lanka’s pizza market to grow 25-pct in five-years: India’s Jubilant
April 26, 2012 (LBO) - India's Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, regional franchise holder for Domino's Pizza, is investing 300 million rupees in Sri Lanka in 2012, …
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May 19, 2011 (AFP) - Under a cloak of secrecy, the first film adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie's celebrated novel "Midnight's Children" has …
Fourth night of protests in Maldives
May 3, 2011 (AFP) - Anti-government protesters took to the streets of the Maldives for a fourth night on Tuesday, as police baton-charged demonstrators and …
Sri Lanka want World Cup win for Murali
February 24, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka want to win the World Cup as a farewell trophy for legendary spinner and world record holder Muttiah Muralitharan who will …
Sri Lanka’s Murali hopes to end on World Cup high
February 12, 2011 (AFP) - Record-breaking Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan goes into his fourth and final World Cup praying that he ends his glorious …
Divisions over Sri Lanka book festival boycott call
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Sri Lanka struggles with flood havoc
BATTICALOA, January 14, 2011 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan military and aid agencies struggled Thursday to bring relief to a million people displaced by floods that …
Sri Lankan exporters brace for life without EU tax breaks
DANKOTUWA, August 15, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lankan exporters braced for hard times as the EU's withdrawal of import concessions took effect Sunday after Colombo's …
Sri Lankans hit Tamil Tiger tourist trail
KILINOCHCHI, May 19, 2010 (AFP) - The wreckage left by a brutal war has created a new tourist trail in Sri Lanka just a year after the Tamil Tiger rebels were …
Sri Lanka seeks harmony between elephants and humans
LUNUGAMWEHERA, May 17, 2010 (AFP) - In the early hours of a hot dry day, four orphaned elephants begin a bumpy truck ride back to the jungles of southern Sri …
Maldives offers to take two Guantanamo Bay prisoners
May 16, 2010 (AFP) - The Maldives has offered to take two detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, in what it described …
Sri Lanka war wounded face long fight to recovery
RAGAMA, April 18, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's leaders have hailed the end of the island's long civil war as the start of a new era, but for soldiers injured in …
Family fears for missing Sri Lankan cartoonist – Focus
March 11, 2010 (AFP) - Six weeks ago Sri Lankan political writer and cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda went missing, and his fate has raised further concerns …
Sri Lanka’s legendary doorman turns 90
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Sri Lanka’s Tamils trudge to polls in post-war vote – Scene
VAVUNIYA, January 26, 2010 (AFP) - Kandaswamy Wellarayanam, 73, walked six kilometres to vote in Sri Lanka's election from a state camp where displaced Tamils …
Sri Lanka’s Tamils wary of election spotlight
JAFFNA, January 17, 2010 (AFP) - Scarred by decades of war and official indifference, Sri Lanka's minority Tamils are now being courted as political kingmakers …
Sri Lanka back on investment radar
December 6, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is back on the global investment radar after government forces in May ended a nearly four-decade separatist war with Tamil …
Sri Lanka’s African families fade away
SIRAMBIADIYA, November 15, 2009 (AFP) - In a village deep in west Sri Lanka, one of the island's few remaining communities of African descent breaks into song …