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COLOMBO, September 7, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police have arrested a navy officer suspected of involvement in smuggling people in fishing boats to Australia, …
COLOMBO, September 7, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police have arrested a navy officer suspected of involvement in smuggling people in fishing boats to Australia, …
SYDNEY, September 2, 2013 (AFP) - New policies targeting asylum-seekers taking boats to Australia had "broken the back" of the people-smuggling trade, …
Aug 02, 2013 (LBO) - A provincial High Court in Sri Lanka is to hear a petition to wind up Touchwood Investments, a Colombo-based forestry firm, according to a …
August 25, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's army Sunday denied involvement in an armed robbery at the home of a journalist who has been critical of the government. buy …
August 23, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president has bowed to international pressure and relinquished the defence ministry's authority over the police department, …
COLOMBO, August 24, 2013 (AFP) - Five armed men held a Sri Lankan newspaper editor at knifepoint as they searched her home on Saturday before police burst in …
August 14, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president Wednesday ordered a new investigation into the disappearance of thousands of people in the island's northeast …
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2013 (AFP) - The United States on Friday urged Sri Lanka to investigate a deadly army crackdown on a village environmental protest and to …
COLOMBO, Aug 6, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's opposition Tuesday demanded an international investigation into a deadly army crackdown on villagers who were …
LONDON, July 30, 2013 (AFP) - Almost 100 foreign suspected war criminals were found to be living in Britain last year after applying for citizenship or asylum, …
July 30, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's finance ministry was not probing an allegation of pay-offs in a land deal with India's Krrish group because there was no …
HANOI, July 31, 2013 (AFP) - A Vietnamese fish farmer who became a folk hero after he used homemade weapons to resist forced eviction has lost his appeal …
JAKARTA, July 27, 2013 (AFP) - Police detained four Indonesians allegedly involved in arranging an Australian-bound refugee boat which sank earlier this week, …
SYDNEY, July 26, 2013 (AFP) - The United Nations on Friday said it was "troubled" by Australia's decision to send asylum-seekers arriving by boat to Papua New …
July 19, 2013 (LBO) - Boat people arriving in Australia from countries like Sri Lanka and others may be settled in Papua New Guinea and other developing …
SYDNEY, July 19, 2013 (AFP) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Friday announced that no more boatpeople will be resettled in Australia as refugees, with all …
COLOMBO, July 15, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka has halted a French cultural festival after it screened an internationally-acclaimed local film that the military …
July 5, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's police arrested 12 commandos in connection with the execution-style killing of five students during the island's Tamil …
July 2, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka has banned the July 1 issue of Time magazine because its cover story on Myanmar's Buddhist-Muslim clashes could hurt religious …
June 28, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's military has released a woman leader of the Tamil Tiger militant group from four years of detention after she completed …