Wealthy Donor
WASHINGTON, October 18, 2009 (AFP) - A US-based hedge-fund billionaire charged as part of an insider-trading case was investigated by US authorities for …
Legal
Inside Deals
NEW YORK, October 16, 2009 (AFP) - US authorities Friday charged a billionaire hedge fund manager and five others with insider trading that netted 20 million …
Stand-off
MERAK, October 16, 2009 (AFP) - Two asylum-seekers were hospitalised Friday from a boatload of 255 Sri Lankans who have declared a hunger strike in Indonesia …
Securities Charge
Oct 16, 2009 (LBO) - Galleon group chief Raj Rajaratnam, a top equity markets investor in Sri Lanka, and five others have been charged in a 20 million US …
False Gold
Oct 14, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's central bank has warned the public against persons claiming to have been authorized to sell gold belonging to the monetary …
Legal Advice
Oct 14, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had withdrawn charges of market manipulation case and issued a reprimand to a …
US Lesson
September 27, 2009 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan government said on Sunday it would study the United States' treatment of suspected Islamic militants to learn how to …
Coming Back
Sept 24, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has allowed the island's former Treasury Secretary to return to public service from which he was ousted by …
Watchdog Action
Sept 23, 2009 (LBO) - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) has filed charges against two senior executives of Singalanka Standard …
Public Debate
Sept 18, 2009 (LBO) - The 28th LBR-LBO chief executive forum debated the economic impact of public interest litigation, with a four member panel made up of …
Disputed Justice
Sept 18, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's private sector should have been more forceful in challenging a chief judge seen as brilliant but dominating whose judgments …
Jailed Journalist
OTTAWA, September 2, 2009 (AFP) - Canada is "deeply concerned" by Sri Lanka's sentencing of a journalist to 20 years of hard labor, Foreign Affairs Minister …
Emblematic Example
WASHINGTON, August 31, 2009 (AFP) - The United States criticized Sri Lanka Monday for sentencing to 20 years in prison a Tamil reporter whose case has been …
Probe Call
GENEVA, August 28, 2009 (AFP) - A United Nations expert on Friday urged the Sri Lankan government to set up an independent probe into the authencity of a video …
Larger Bench
Aug 27, 2009 (LBO) - A case where Sri Lanka's former Treasury Secretary is seeking permission to return to public service from which he was ousted by court, …
Legal Move
Aug 16, 2009 (LBO) - The directors of two failed property firm in Sri Lanka's troubled Ceylinco group has been given court nod to have a board meeting in …
Treasury Case
Aug 03, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's former Treasury chief P B Jayasundera is to file a confidential affidavit in an application to release him from an undertaking …
No Variation
Aug 03, 2009 (LBO) - Several applications asking to vary orders made following a landmark judgment which reversed a transfer of state land to build a golf …
Phone Ban
July 28, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka has banned students from taking mobile phones to school following the suicide of a teenager disciplined for using her …
Court Block
July 25, 2009 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan court has ordered a dozen websites to be blocked for allegedly containing pornographic material involving local women and …