Battle for Jaffna kills 646: Sri Lanka military
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) - At least 159 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and 485 were wounded while resisting a Tamil Tiger offensive against the northern peninsula …
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) - At least 159 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and 485 were wounded while resisting a Tamil Tiger offensive against the northern peninsula …
COLOMBO, Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka Tuesday welcomed the arrest in the United States of men allegedly trying to buy surface-to-air missiles for Tamil Tiger …
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police Tuesday discovered a powerful Claymore mine in a crowded Colombo market area as the city hosted thousands of athletes …
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan cargo ship is to set sail Tuesday with food aid for the embattled Jaffna peninsula but it may go half-empty because bad …
Aug 21, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops and Tigers are locked in fierce fighting over Jaffna, but analysts say the arid peninsula is of little real value to …
Aug 21, 2006 (AFP) - The monitors of Sri Lanka's collapsing truce were retreating to Colombo amid fierce fighting as the nation's financial backers met the …
Aug 20 (AFP) - A foreign team monitoring Sri Lanka's crumbling ceasefire will be almost halved after Tamil Tiger rebels ordered members from European Union …
Aug 19 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's airforce Saturday said it had destroyed attack craft used by Tamil Tigers in an airstrike on a boatyard in rebel-held territory. …
Aug 19 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops bombed an alleged Tamil Tiger seabase and traded fire with rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula amid concern over supplies …
COLOMBO, Aug 18, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels Friday gave the names of 51 school children killed in an airforce bombing of what they said was an …
August 18 (LBO) – Mysterious grenade attacks and pricing problems have pushed down sales of the Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation, with the …
August 18 (LBO) – Sri Lankan based gas distributor Laugfs, who wants to blend and produce lubricants locally, says conditions for entering the newly …
HELSINKI, Aug 18, 2006 (AFP) - The Finnish presidency of the European Union has called on the warring parties in Sri Lanka to return to the negotiating table …
Aug 18 (LBO) - The United States government’s international aid agency has sent a disaster expert to study the refugee crisis in the country’s …
COLOMBO, Aug 18, 2006 (AFP) - Government warplanes attacked Tamil Tiger targets in northern Sri Lanka Friday as aid workers demanded access to tens of …
August 01, 2006 (LBO) – Caltex Lanka Lubricants Tuesday reported a 16 percent spike in net profit after tax for the six months ended June this year, on …
August 1, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corp has raised fuel prices after a two-month lag to offset a surge in global oil prices, …
August 01, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka says it may not entertain new investments into expensive oil fired power plants, under a proposed energy policy for the …
July 31 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has called for interested investors to set up a power plant by end this year, to supply electricity to Jaffna in the …