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Sri Lanka confirms first H1N1 flu death
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 4 hours ago
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Sri Lankan health authorities on Sunday confirmed the island nation's first death from the H1N1 flu virus. "A 16-year old boy died of H1N1 on Thursday," Paba Palihawadana, head of epidemiological unit at the health ministry, told Reuters. "He had a chronic...
Tags: swine flu, sri lankan, Sri Lanka
Send asylum seekers home, says Joyce
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce says the Federal Government should send a group of asylum seekers on board an Australian Customs ship back to Sri Lanka. The 78 Sri Lankans have been on board the Oceanic Viking for three weeks and are refusing to get off...
Tags: Sri Lanka, asylum seekers, Australians, sri lankan, Kevin Rudd, minister stephen, seekers issue, Stephen Smith, Indian Ocean, Herald /Nielsen
U.S. Moves to ‘stump’ Sri Lanka on Human Rights goes through Green Card holder Sarath Fonseka
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility If it were an ordinary, harmless interview why couldn’t Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka, who was on an official-personal visit to the United States, ignore the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and leave...
Tags: Sri Lanka, sri lankan, Sarath Fonseka, Colombo, France, Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, asked sri, Tamil Tigers, Francois Zimeray, emergency laws
U.S. Congress Resolution on Sri Lanka IDPs reflects sanity returning to Congress
Jaffna :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility The House resolution 711 passed in the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress on Thursday, November 05 called on the Government of Sri Lanka to engage in speedy resettlement of Tamil civilian refugees in welfare camps but significantly recognized...
Tags: Jaffna Traders� Association, Sri Lanka, Vavuniyaa, vavuniyaa camps, Vanni, vanni idps, U.S. Congress Resolution
IMF releases $329.4 million loan to Sri Lanka
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility The International Monetary Fund said on Friday its executive board completed a review of Sri Lanka's economic performance and released $329.4 million from a stand-by loan agreement. The IMF board also approved Sri Lanka's request for a waiver on certain...
Displaced Sri Lankans Increasingly Returning Home From Camps – UNHCR
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 2 days ago
Credibility About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict between Government forces and Tamil separatists have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported on Friday.
Tags: Sri Lanka, UN Human Rights Council, foreign minister, State of Emergency
Sri Lankan official stresses resettlement
Chennai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility It will be difficult for the Sri Lankan government to engage in a constructive dialogue on a political solution until the resettlement issue has been dealt with, according to Ajith Nivard Cabraal, governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. “Otherwise,...
Tags: Sri Lanka
Rudd has 'no choice' on asylum seekers
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility The Customs vessel which rescued the Sri Lankans from the Indian Ocean is still in Indonesian waters and the asylum seekers are refusing to go ashore...While Mr Rudd is adamant their claims for refugee status will not be processed in Australia, former...
Tags: sri lankan, Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Indonesian Navy, Sri Lanka, oceans viking, Australian, Oceanic Viking, asylum seekers, climate change, Bintan
Sri Lanka: Displaced Muslims of the North to be resttled
Jaffna :: Sri Lanka | 3 days ago
Credibility The displaced Muslims of the North are to be soon resettled in their original places in the Northern Province. Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa while addressing the internally displaced Muslim women assured that all Muslims who were driven out of...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Northern Province, U.N., displaced muslims
Former Sri Lankan Army Commander Returned Home
Director General of Sri Lanka Immigration and Emmigration confirmed that Former Army commander and of present Chief of Staff for all armed forces in Sri Lanka has safely return to Sri Lanka from US. President Mahinda Rajapakshe...
Tags: US, Sri Lanka, General Sarath Fonseka return
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