Sri Lanka’s biggest Buddhist pageant goes ahead despite bomb scare
Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka police Sunday defused a powerful bomb near the route of a major Buddhist festival in the sacred city of Kandy, officials said. …
Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka police Sunday defused a powerful bomb near the route of a major Buddhist festival in the sacred city of Kandy, officials said. …
Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - A top Sri Lankan defence columnist stopped writing fearing for his life after he exposed alleged corruption in the purchase of second-hand …
August 25, 2007 (LBO) - Sri Lanka’s land and condominium price bubble which has now peaked may pop with buildings now under construction expected to …
Aug 24, 2007 (AFP) - A media rights group Friday urged Sri Lanka to ease emergency laws that curtail freedom of expression and warned of worsening conditions …
August 23, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation, has returned to profitability in the June quarter, posting 490 million rupees in …
Aug 23, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan companies have formed a business coalition on HIV/AIDS saying increasing awareness and gearing up workplaces to handle …
HARARE, Aug 22, 2007 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's government has authorised retailers to raise the prices of basic goods in order to ease widespread shortages which …
August 21, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank law, devised by an international economist famed for his monetary prudence, has in-built safeguards to …
August 17, 2007 (LBO) – A top French anti-terrorism judge and leading conflict specialists are among speakers at a counter-terrorism conference to be …
COLOMBO, Aug 16, 2007 (AFP) - A Tamil reporter suffered burns on his face, arms and back after attackers threw acid at him in Sri Lanka's capital Thursday in …
Aug 16, 2007 (AFP) - The government of Sri Lanka is pressuring minority Tamils to withdraw court cases against the authorities for forcibly evicting them from …
August 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Rohitha Bogollagama, Thursday disowned a Cabinet colleague's accusation that a UN official who …
August 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's trade deficit has narrowed 12 percent and oil imports had fallen 8 percent in the first half of 2007, the central …
August 16, 2007 (LBO) – The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation which runs Sri Lanka's only refinery has hedged the crack margin of a portion of its diesel and …
Aug 15, 2007 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan minister Wednesday described a top UN official as a "terrorist" after accusing him of supporting the country's separatist …
August 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's forex markets are defying fundamental economic principles with bids creeping above offer prices in what analysts see …
Aug 14, 2007 (AFP) - Hundreds of people disappeared in Sri Lanka in the past year and more than 5,700 such cases from the past three decades were under UN …
August 14, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank sought to calm the country's forex markets in its August monetary policy statement as the rupee came …
August 14, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan business delegation is to visit the Middle East next month seeking to penetrate the markets in three oil exporting …
FRANKFURT, Aug 14, 2007 (AFP) - By injecting billions into the money markets in the wake of fears about the US housing market, central banks are reaping what …