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Colombo – Thousands of people have started leaving refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka, six months after the civil war with the Tamil rebels ended, but remain stranded without any means of getting home, aid workers in the area said Wednesday. Since t...
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s inflation accelerated to a six-month high, suggesting the central bank may have less room to keep cutting interest rates.
Sri Lanka's government freed hundreds of thousands of Tamils from vast internment camps in the north of the island Tuesday – prompted as much by upcoming elections as concerns over human rights, say analysts.
(RTTNews) - Sri Lanka's main Opposition party has decided to field former army commander General Sarath Fonseka, who stepped down recently, to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the country's snap presidential elections.
* Sehwag slams second fastest double century
Sri Lanka will Tuesday allow thousands of civilians to leave state-run camps where they have been detained since the military's victory over Tamil Tiger separatist rebels, a senior official said.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sarath Fonseka , Sri Lanka’s former military chief, will run against the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa , in the presidential election set for next year.
Amnesty International is calling on the Sri Lankan government to permanently release civilians who have been illegally detained in camps since the end of the civil war six months ago.
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - With candles glowing next to his computer, Chandrasiri Bandara, the nation's most popular astrologer, looked at his birth chart and predicted that he would soon be assassinated.
BANGKOK, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - In a development welcomed by the UN and NGOs, thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs), who have been held for months in camps in Sri Lanka's north, are free to come and go as of 1 December.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s presidential election next year will allow voters to go to the polls in the northern region formerly controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa called a presidential election for 2010, two years before his mandate expires, as he seeks to capitalize on his government ending a 26-year civil war with Tamil rebels.
(RTTNews) - Tuesday, thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Sri Lanka will be free to leave state-run camps where they have been detained since the military's victory over separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.
Virender Sehwag plundered the second-fastest Test double hundred as India piled on an incredible 443-1 off just 79 overs on the second day of the deciding third match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said it completed the return of Tamil civilians displaced in the war with Tamil Tiger rebels to the northern Jaffna district as part of plans to settle almost 122,000 people in camps by the end of January.
Nearly 60,000 people were left homeless in Sri Lanka Thursday following flash floods in the capital Colombo and the suburbs, an official said.
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