Sri Lanka private TV station torched
July 30, 2010 (AFP) - Unidentified attackers set fire to a private television station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Friday after smashing editing …
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Sri Lanka ex-army chief faces new trial
July 29, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka was brought before the Colombo High Court on Thursday to …
Vietnam to open Sri Lanka embassy early 2011
July 25, 2010 (LBO) - Vietnam will open an embassy in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo in early 2011, a joint statement following a meeting of deputy foreign …
US urges Sri Lanka to improve rights, media freedom
July 21, 2010 (AFP) - The United States pressed Sri Lanka on Wednesday to improve human rights and media freedoms amid charges that security forces committed …
Indonesia lukewarm on Australia asylum centre plan
JAKARTA, July 15, 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia gave a lukewarm response Thursday to Australia's plans for a processing centre for asylum-seekers in East Timor, …
Sri Lankan cabinet meets in former Tiger capital
KILINOCHCHI, July 14, 2010 (AFP) - The president of Sri Lanka held a cabinet meeting on Wednesday in the northern town of Kilinochchi, the capital of the Tamil …
Sri Lanka cabinet to meet in former Tiger capital
July 13, 2010 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan president and his ministers are to hold a meeting Wednesday in Kilinochchi, the northern town from which the Tamil Tiger …
Sri Lanka UN office ‘blockade’ dismays diplomats
July 10, 2010 (LBO) - Diplomats in Colombo have called upon the government to ensure the security of United National staff and expressed dismay at a 'blockade' …
Ban urges Sri Lanka to ‘normalize conditions’ at UN compound
UNITED NATIONS, July 9, 2010 (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon Friday called Friday on Sri Lanka to "normalize conditions" around the UN office in Colombo after …
Sri Lankan protest drags on despite appeal from UN chief
July 10, 2010 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan lawmaker entered the fifth day of a protest outside the main UN compound in Colombo Saturday despite a plea from UN chief …
Sri Lankan lawmaker ends ‘death fast’ over UN probe
July 10, 2010 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan lawmaker ended a "death fast" Saturday outside the main UN compound in Colombo after failing to get the world body to …
Sri Lanka UN representative recalled amid war crimes row
UNITED NATIONS, July 8, 2010 (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon recalled Thursday his main representative in Sri Lanka and closed down offices in Colombo that have …
Protests at UN office in Sri Lanka over war panel
July 6, 2010 (AFP) - Protesters led by a Sri Lankan cabinet minister surrounded the United Nations office in Colombo on Tuesday to protest at a UN panel set up …
Australia plans to ship asylum-seekers to Timor
SYDNEY, July 6, 2010 (AFP) - Australia's new leader Julia Gillard Tuesday revealed surprise plans to ship asylum-seekers to impoverished East Timor, in a …
Australia urged to end asylum freeze and ‘refugee-bashing’
SYDNEY, July 5, 2010 (AFP) - Human Rights Watch urged Australia's new prime minister on Monday to lift a controversial freeze on Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum …
EU urges Sri Lanka to cooperate with UN war probe
BRUSSELS, July 1, 2010 (AFP) - The European Union urged Sri Lanka's government on Thursday to cooperate with a UN panel probing alleged war crimes during the …
Sri Lanka president defiant over war probe
NEW DELHI, June 28, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president vowed to resist international calls to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the country's …
Sri Lanka to block visits by UN panel probing war allegations
June 24, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka will ban visits by the three-member United Nations panel investigating alleged human rights abuses in the final months of the …
Sri Lanka increases taxes on sugar, alcohol, cigarettes
June 24, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has increased levies on sugar imports by five rupees, while a cigarette tax would go up by one rupee and taxes on a proof …
Sri Lanka blast wounds nine in capital: police
June 24, 2010 (AFP) - An explosion ripped through a commercial area of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo on Thursday, wounding at least nine people, police said. …