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Sri Lanka's election chief has ordered state institutions to stop giving appointments, promotions and transfers of employees until the end of the forthcoming presidential election, election officials said on Tuesday. Dayananda Dissanayake, the commissioner...
Tags: UNP Stage, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonseka, Dayananda Dissanayake, SB Dissanayake, S.B.Dissanayake, S.B. Dissanayake, presidential elections, Colombo, Politics, Ranil Wickremasinghe, Sinhalese people, Sri Lankan people, United National Party, D. A. Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka Freedom Party, United People's Freedom Alliance, Gamini Dissanayake, Rohitha Bogollagama, War Conflict
Reporters and aid workers have said they are still being barred from visiting Government internment camps housing thousands of Tamil refugees days after Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama proclaimed on British television that the areas were...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Trincomalee, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Rohitha Bogollagama, Social Issues, Forced migration, Right of asylum, Refugees, TamilNet, Red Cross, Sinhalese people, War Conflict, Demography, International Committee of the Red Cross, Population
SRI Lanka has maintained its ban on journalists reporting the plight of war-displaced civilians who have been allowed out of their internment camps, officials said today. Foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama said yesterday the media now had full access,...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Vavuniya, Sri Lankan people, Politics, Rohitha Bogollagama, Sinhalese people, Mahinda Samarasinghe, War Conflict
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has said that it has rescued four Indian fishermen found drifting in their fishing boat near the Maradapuram fishing marshalling point in Karainagar Island on Wednesday. SLN gave their names as Karunanidhi Sekar (44), Ramachandiran...
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Some Scarborough Buddhists are accusing the outlawed Tamil Tigers of setting their temple on fire for a second time, sending three monks fleeing to safety. Toronto Police were scouring the Maha Vihara Buddhist Meditation Centre, a Sri Lankan temple on...
Tags: Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple, sri lankan, Tamil Tigers, Toronto Police, Sri Lanka, Colombo, War Conflict, Tamil Sri Lankans, Rohitha Bogollagama, Politics, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Commonwealth of Nations, Provinces of Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan Civil War, Tamil Eelam, Commonwealth Foundation
Realistic changes in emission patterns are urgently required to prevent dangerous interference with the climate system and achieve the ultimate objectives of the International Conventions on environment, stated Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama during...
Tags: Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, FAO Council, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Rohitha Bogollagama, Sinhalese people, Environment, Food and Agriculture Organization, Climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism, War Conflict, Sri Lankan people, Mahinda Rajapaksa, D. A. Rajapaksa, Politics of Sri Lanka
Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached out to the Taliban on Friday, part of a call for reconciliation that the palace says will be the main focus of his second term that began last week. Speaking to reporters outside his palace in Kabul on the first...
Tags: Commonwealth, Sri Lanka, prime minister, Zimbabwe, climate change, Copenhagen, India, Hamid Karzai, China, Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Kabul, Environment, Politics, War Conflict, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, War in Afghanistan, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Diplomatic conferences, Commonwealth of Nations, Taliban, Carbon finance, Global warming, Robert Mugabe, Anti-communism, Rohitha Bogollagama, Commonwealth Chairperson-in-Office, Taliban insurgency, International Security Assistance Force, Head of the Commonwealth
The Prime Minister's plane woes are over and his trip to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is back on track. The Air Force 757 being used by John Key and his delegation was unexpectedly grounded in Honolulu for several hours today because of...
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People are still not given free access to leave these camps on their own free will," UN humanitarian chief John Holmes told Agence France-Presse on Thursday, after a visit to the camps. Holmes, who ended a three-day visit on Thursday, said some 130,000...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonseka, humanitarian affairs, Colombo, Military of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, D. A. Rajapaksa, Chief of the Defence Staff, War Conflict, Sinhalese people, Sri Lankan people, Year of birth missing, Politics, Sri Lankan Civil War, Refugee camps, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Tamil Eelam, Forced migration, Internally displaced person, Persecution, Provinces of Sri Lanka, Tamil people, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Dravidian peoples, Politics of Sri Lanka, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, Demining, Rohitha Bogollagama, Tamil diaspora, Vavuniya District, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Jaffna
It is strongly rumored that Ambassador M.J.Palipane who was recently recalled from the Sri Lanka Mission in Japan, will be getting back his Additional Secretary position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when the incumbent Prasad Kariyawasam leaves for...
Tags: Asian Tribune, Japan, Tōkyō, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan people, Sinhalese people, Rohitha Bogollagama, Ministry of Foreign Affairs