Sri Lankan presidential contender woos Tamil voters
January 2, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former military chief Sarath Fonseka took his presidential campaign Saturday to the ethnic heartland of the Tamil Tiger …
January 2, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former military chief Sarath Fonseka took his presidential campaign Saturday to the ethnic heartland of the Tamil Tiger …
December 31, 2009 (AFP) - Anti-graft campaign group Transparency International accused Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday of using state …
PARIS, December 29, 2009 (AFP) - The number of journalists killed because of their work rose to 76 this year from 60 in 2008, the media rights watchdog …
December 28, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president has given legal experts four more months to study a US State Department report cataloging alleged war crimes on …
JAKARTA, December 27, 2009 (AFP) - The body of an asylum seeker who died of a suspected stomach infection in Indonesia will be returned to Sri Lanka this week, …
December 20, 2009 (AFP) - A presidential election in Sri Lanka next month will see two former allies from the country's bitter civil war slugging it out, but …
JAKARTA, December 20, 2009 (AFP) - Fifteen of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who spent weeks refusing to get off the boat that rescued them near Indonesia have …
December 17, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse and his main rival in elections next month, former army general Sarath Fonseka, handed in …
BRUSSELS, December 16, 2009 (AFP) - The European Commission on Wednesday granted more aid for tens of thousands of people who fled fighting between Sri Lankan …
Dec 15, 2009 (LBO) – Famous, if fictional detective John Rebus, finely illustrated graphic novels and sensational pulp fiction are billed to make Sri …
December 15, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's recovery from its decades-long civil war has been marred by graft, violence and a culture of lawlessness, a global …
December 8, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former military chief who led troops to victory over Tamil separatists in May said he fears fugitive rebels will try to …
WASHINGTON, December 7, 2009 (AFP) - A US Senate report warned Monday that Washington risked "losing" Sri Lanka as it recovers from war and called for more …
December 4, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka has maintained its ban on journalists reporting the plight of war-displaced civilians who have been allowed out of their …
WASHINGTON, December 4, 2009 (AFP) - A senior US envoy will head to Sri Lanka next week to encourage post-war reconciliation, days after the island nation …
December 2, 2009 (AFP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday pushed Sri Lanka to grant full freedom to 130,000 Tamil civilians who have been allowed out of …
November 30, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka will Tuesday allow thousands of civilians to leave state-run camps where they have been detained since the military's …
VAVUNIYA, December 1, 2009 (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Sri Lankan civilians held in state-run camps following the island's ethnic conflict were allowed to …
SYDNEY, November 30, 2009 (AFP) - Australia unveiled Perth on Monday as the venue for the next Commonwealth summit in 2011, as the international club's latest …
November 29, 2009 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan general who led troops to victory over Tamil separatists after decades of war formally announced on Sunday that he …