Sri Lanka calls on West to crack down on Tiger funding
May 7, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's prime minister on Friday urged Western nations to crack down on Tamils using their soil to revive the Tamil Tiger separatist …
May 7, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's prime minister on Friday urged Western nations to crack down on Tamils using their soil to revive the Tamil Tiger separatist …
May 6, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Thursday vowed to "expose" any war crimes committed during the end of the country's civil war last year and said …
May 5, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka plans to set up a reconciliation commission to foster ethnic unity as the island emerges from nearly four decades of bloody …
May 5, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's parliament on Wednesday scaled down tough state of emergency laws that were first introduced 27 years ago to deal with …
May 4, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka stopped national cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara and another player from calling on the Dalai Lama out of fear that a meeting …
May 4, 2010 (AFP) - Media rights groups Tuesday welcomed Sri Lanka's decision to pardon a Tamil editor sentenced to 20 years in prison, but urged the …
PARIS, May 3, 2010 (AFP) - Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders named Monday the world's 40 worst "predators of the press" including politicians, religious …
May 03, 2010 (LBO) - The US embassy in Colombo says the World Press Freedom Day which falls on May 03 is a reminder to citizens and government that a free …
May 3, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Monday pardoned a convicted Tamil editor whose 20-year prison term last year for supporting "terrorism" drew international …
May 3, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's court of appeal on Monday suspended a court martial against former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who tried to unseat the president …
May 1, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's political parties were holding May Day rallies on Saturday for the first time since the ending of nearly four decades of ethnic …
NEW YORK, April 30, 2010 (AFP) - From the deck of New York Harbor's tour boat the Statue of Liberty looks as welcoming today as when greeting new immigrants a …
April 29, 2010 (AFP) - The ancestral home of Sri Lanka's slain Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has been demolished as it was becoming a tourist …
April 28, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's ruling party will press ahead with constitutional reforms to allow President Mahinda Rajapakse to run for a third term in …
GENEVA, April 27, 2010 (AFP) - More than 200,000 of some 280,000 mainly Tamil people displaced after the civil war in northern Sri Lanka have left their camps …
KUALA LUMPUR, April 26, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysian police Monday said they have detained 75 Sri Lankan migrants who refused to get off a fishing trawler, after …
April 25, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka may scrap the state of emergency laws that gave sweeping powers to police and troops during the island's long ethnic conflict …
Apr 23, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa retained the finance and defence portfolios in a new cabinet appointed after parliamentary polls …
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2010 (AFP) - The United States called on Sri Lanka's new government Wednesday to use its mandate to pursue a "healing process" as the …
April 22, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's detained former army chief briefly emerged from custody Thursday to attend the opening of parliament and used the …