News Source: The Jakarta Post
| about 1 month ago
Upon hearing the news that Australia would open its gates to refugees, 255 people took to a wooden boat to cross the oceans and find a new life. Hopes turned into despair when they were intercepted by the Indonesian Navy while passing the Sunda...
News Source: Arab News
| about 1 month ago
Two Sri Lankans and an Indian were executed on Wednesday in Jeddah for robbing and murdering a Saudi woman. Two of the robbers were able to enter the woman’s home with the help of the third, who the woman had employed as a maid. The trio stole...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
The government is of the view that any effort to improve these refugees living conditions would only be an effort to enhance the livelihood of Tamils as a whole, he said. Karunanidhi, who sanctioned Rs12 crore to improve the conditions at the refugee...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
A Singaporean opposition party member will be extradited to the United States and tried for allegedly trying to supply arms to Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil Tiger rebels, officials here said Tuesday. Businessman Balldev Naidu, 47, is facing six charges...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
The group of Sri Lankans is refusing to leave the Australian customs ship Oceanic Viking which has been anchored in Indonesian waters for more than a week. A senior Indonesian Foreign Ministry official yesterday said perhaps the time had come to look...
News Source: Fiji Live
| about 1 month ago
The Australian government says it did not deny entry to seven Sri Lankan judges who headed to Fiji this week to take up judicial office. The Australian High Commission in Suva has explained that a decision had been made to issue visas to enable them...