Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- London Stock Exchange Group Plc , Europe’s oldest independent bourse, said a technical problem related to one part of its trading system affected 1 in 12 U.K. stocks and trading for those won’t resume tonight.
( International Water Management Institute ) "We will need nothing less than a 'Blue Revolution' if we are to achieve food security, and avert a serious water crisis in the future," said Dr. Colin Chartres, director general of the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute. Dr. Chartres was speaking to the Economic and Finance Committee of the UN General Assembly, at a special ...
NEW DELHI: Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) Chief Minister Omar Abdullah revealed that “quiet diplomacy” was being conducted to find an amicable settlement to Kashmir problem.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced that Lavi de Silva has joined the WSO2 management team as vice president of global sales. He brings more than 15 years experience in building enterprise sales and service teams to drive profitable growth.
Sydney - An Australian Muslim accused of sending abusive letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed fighting the Taliban chained himself outside a Sydney courtroom Tuesday before delivering a rant about the war in Afghanistan. Man Monis, a...
Tokyo - The Japanese government on Tuesday passed an aid package worth 5 billion dollars over the next five years to help reconstruction in Afghanistan. The package is to replace the military aid for the war in Afghanistan, which involves a controver...
Seoul - Warships belonging to North and South Korea clashed off their west coast Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported, citing naval and Defence Ministry officials in Seoul. A North Korean patrol ship crossed the Northern Limit Line, the...
(RTTNews) - Canadian officials allege that several of a group of 76 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers picked up off the country's coast last month have ties to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Tamil terrorist organization, and could pose a security risk.
For the past two months I've been volunteering at a local shelter doing poetry workshops twice a week. After a workshop the other day, I was coloring with the kids in the living room, and a girl suddenly turned to me and said, "So you're black, right?" I was stunned at how forward she was, and confused as well.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said 164,000 civilians displaced by the civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels remain in camps in the north and the government intends to reduce the number to less than 50,000 by the end of January.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Australia and Sri Lanka signed a legal cooperation agreement to fight people smuggling amid Opposition pressure on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to tighten border security.
Sri Lanka's central bank on Saturday said it has been buying gold to diversify its reserves amid volatile currency markets, days after India announced it had purchased 200 tonnes of the precious metal.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Developing nations should set an example for the world ahead of an international conference on climate change by pledging to become carbon neutral, the president of the Maldives said Monday.
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said its army chief left the U.S. without undergoing questioning about alleged human rights abuses during the civil war, after the government protested plans to interview him.
Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka rejected a U.S. report on alleged shelling of civilians during the final battle with Tamil Tiger rebels in May as the State Department called on the government in Colombo to investigate human rights abuses.