Sri Lanka diplomats decry encroachment
Dec 14, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's professional diplomats have slammed a practice by government politicians of appointing friends, relations and cronies to …
Dec 14, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's professional diplomats have slammed a practice by government politicians of appointing friends, relations and cronies to …
Dec 10, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected a price-formula for fuel amidst growing public displeasure at exorbitant pump …
Dec 09, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lankan industrial exporters say the lack of a transparent price formula especially for diesel has increased their production cost …
Dec 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's main opposition has put forward a no-confidence motion against the government Monday on the eve of a budget vote, …
Dec 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party has appointed a rebel member who is a government minister as its deputy leader, …
Dec 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's ruling party has opposed an opposition attempt to move a no-confidence motion on an oil hedging deal saying it related …
Dec 06, 2008 (LBO) - The Sri Lanka unit of the Indian Oil Corporation has unwound some oil derivatives it bought earlier in 2008, but is left with 70,000 …
NEW YORK, December 4, 2008 (AFP) - Oil prices tumbled to their weakest levels in nearly four years Thursday as investors fixated on mounting signs of recession …
Dec 05, 2008 (LBO) - The government said it will reduce fuel retail prices from midnight Friday in line with falling global oil prices and ahead of a court …
Nov 03, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's state is operating a black market taking an estimated 54 billion rupees a year in profits and discriminatory taxes from …
Dec 02, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka' main opposition United National Party says the cabinet of ministers and the central bank is also responsible for a hedging deal …
Nov 30, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's petroleum ministry has not yet been taken over by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, following a court ruling by the Supreme …
Nov 28, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's supreme court said petroleum minister A H M Fowzie should be removed, in a case where controversial oil hedges by a state-run …
Nov 28, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's supreme court has ordered the state-owned oil refiner, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), to suspend controversial hedge …
Nov 27, 2008 (LBO) – A team of Sri Lankan ministers is probing an oil hedge that could lose hundreds of millions of dollars to a state-run oil retailer …
NUUK, November 26, 2008 (AFP) - More than 75 percent of Greenlanders voted Tuesday in favour of self-rule in a referendum that paves the way for independence …
NUUK, November 25, 2008 (AFP) - Some 39,000 people in Greenland vote on Tuesday in a referendum on self-rule for the Danish territory, a move that could pave …
Nov 21, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan government has increased the customs duty on imported petrol by 10 rupees per litre to 35 rupees from yesterday, a …
Nov 16, 2008 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan journalist who had been detained for over eight months had been questioned about what he wrote, and had also revealed …
LONDON, November 12, 2008 (AFP) - Oil prices sank under 53 dollars a barrel here on Wednesday, hitting the lowest level since January 2007, as traders worried …