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Colombo - Australia and Sri Lanka on Monday entered into an co-operation agreement to stem the smuggling of Sri Lankans into Australia. The agreement was reached by the visiting Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and his Sri Lankan counterpart...
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.
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- Sri Lanka will continue with its accommodative fiscal and monetary policy through 2010 to boost economic growth, the country's junior finance minister said Monday.
The International Monetary Fund said Friday its executive board approved the release of 329.4 million dollars to Sri Lanka, the second portion of a loan to help the country weather the economic crisis.
MUMBAI -(Dow Jones)- Sri Lanka's current government has shown a commitment to fiscal discipline, the International Monetary Fund's resident representative, Koshy Mathai, said Monday.
Colombo – An international human rights group Wednesday accused the Sri Lanka government of blocking independent investigations of alleged abuses in the recently ended war with Tamil rebels. US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) was reacting to a governm...
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.
Fitch Ratings-Colombo/Mumbai/Singapore-04 November 2009: Fitch Ratings has today affirmed DSI Holdings Limited's (DSIHL) National Long-term rating, as well as its outstanding senior unsecured notes at 'BBB+(lka)'. At the same time, the agency has assigned a 'BBB+(lka)' National Long-term rating to DSI Holdings Limited's (DSIHL) proposed senior unsecured debentures of up to LKR800m.
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said he will visit Sri Lanka tomorrow for talks on people smuggling and the effort to rebuild the island nation following the end of internal conflict.
Wellington - New Zealand ruled out Tuesday taking any of the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board the Australian Customs ship Oceanic Viking off Indonesia. Confirming that Australia had raised the question with the government, Immigration Minister J...
Sri Lanka's top military officer returned home Thursday after he was allowed to complete a US visit without being questioned over alleged war crimes against Tamil civilians.
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.
A 16-year-old Sri Lankan boy became the first victim in the country of influenza A(H1N1), or swine flu, doctors said Sunday.
U.S. authorities allowed Sri Lanka's military chief to return home without being questioned over human rights violations in the last months of the country's 25-year civil war, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The International Monetary Fund's executive board approved another release of funds to Sri Lanka under an arrangement to help the South Asian country avoid a balance-of-payments crisis.
“The expectation is once you arrive here by boat it is highly unlikely you will be sent back,” Joyce said in an interview on Channel 9 broadcast in Australia today. “This is creating a pull factor. We do not have the capacity.”
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