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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...
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.”
(RTTNews) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties on Tuesday formed a coalition to fight the country's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which are expected to be held within the next few months.
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka won’t allow its army chief, Sarath Fonseka, to be questioned in the U.S. over alleged human rights violations committed during the island nation’s war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the government said.
AMBEPUSSA, Sri Lanka Vinojan's boyhood ended when Sri Lanka's civil war reignited. Fifteen at the time, he says he joined the separatist Tamil Tigers to save his older brother from forcible conscription, and became a reluctant fighter as the rebels fought their last, desperate battles for survival. Now, having won the war, Sri Lanka is trying to make patriotic citizens out of child soldiers like ...
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.
The World Gold Council is delighted to note that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has announced that it is buying gold to diversify its reserves.
Raj Rajaratnam, the biggest investor in Sri Lanka's stock market, has no immediate plans to sell holdings in the south Asian nation after insider-trading charges in the U.S., a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to disembark from an Australian ship that took them to Indonesia may reach an agreement to resettle in Australia and end the standoff within days, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Sri Lanka's economic performance under a program supported by a 20-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The completion of the review enables the immediate disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 206.7 million (about US$329.4 million), bringing total disbursements under the arrangement to an amount ...
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Raj Rajaratnam , the biggest investor in Sri Lanka’s stock market, has no immediate plans to sell holdings in the south Asian nation after insider-trading charges in the U.S., a person familiar with the matter said.
The US House of Representatives urged Sri Lanka's government Wednesday to guarantee the safety and quick release of some 300,000 Tamils and other war-displaced people currently held in camps.
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