Security tight as Sri Lanka’s east coast holds key polls
TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, May 9, 2008 (AFP) - A heavy security blanket was thrown over eastern Sri Lanka ahead of Saturday's local polls, seen as a key test for …
TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, May 9, 2008 (AFP) - A heavy security blanket was thrown over eastern Sri Lanka ahead of Saturday's local polls, seen as a key test for …
May 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is keeping retail fuel prices at current levels despite crude oil prices soaring to new highs and mounting losses at the …
May 9, 2008 (AFP) - A former leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel splinter group, jailed in Britain since January, has been released and transferred to an …
May 8, 2008 (AFP) - A United Nations agency Thursday appealed for 36 million dollars to feed thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by fighting between troops and …
VIENNA, May 8, 2008 (AFP) - Ninety-three journalists were killed in 2007, almost half of them in Iraq, the International Press Institute media watchdog said in …
UNITED NATIONS , May 6, 2008 (AFP) - Gabon, Bahrain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zambia do not deserve a seat on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations' top …
May 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's road development bureaucracy is hugely overstaffed and a drain on public funds and unable to effectively maintain the …
May 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning to send a team of medical doctors and nurses to Myanmar, the foreign ministry said. Media reports said around …
May 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank, which earlier protested an International Monetary Fund study on external impacts on inflation, has …
COLOMBO, May 5, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's main media rights group on Monday voiced alarm after the island's hawkish defence chief reportedly branded some …
May 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank is keeping interest rates suppressed and below the inflation rate to reduce government borrowing costs and …
May 03, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Free Media Movement (FMM) has said media freedom in the island remains under threat by both parties to the internal …
May 02, 2008 (LBO) – The International Monetary Fund says it backs moves by Sri Lanka's central bank to tighten monetary policy as well as 'economically …
May 02, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan government is running out of time to fix the economy, with inflation out of control and other economic fundamentals …
May 01, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has signed up additional funds to augment a highway to the south of the island which is jointly financed by the Asian …
May 01, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has signed a deal with the Netherlands government to get eight billion rupees (44. buy symbicort online …
UNITED NATIONS, April 30, 2008 (AFP) - India, the Philippines, Mexico and Colombia -- all democracies -- were cited Wednesday among 13 countries with the …
April 30, 2008 (LBO) – The Federal Reserve money printing that has fired a commodity bubble causing malnutrition and food riots in poor countries is …
April 28, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's pioneer Unicode Sinhala news portal, Vimasuma.com and the Central Bank has teamed up to produce a series of …
April 30, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank will continue to maintain tight monetary policy to cope with the current economic turmoil, uncertainty …