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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...
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.
Sri Lanka's president has announced an immediate salary increase for all members of the country's armed forces amid plans to boost the strength of the security services.
The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia on their way to Australia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government here said Friday.
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The United States was tightlipped Monday about Sri Lanka's visiting top military commander, after the island said US authorities planned to grill him over alleged war crimes.
Sri Lanka said on Monday it had demanded Washington drop an attempt to question its top military official over possible human rights violations in the last phase of the country's 25-year civil war.
The match schedule of the 2011 one-day World Cup to be co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh was announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday.
CHARLESTON — Hundreds of drawings by children from Darfur and Sri Lanka star in the new documentary, “Crayons and Paper,” which will screen at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Political science professor Neil DeVotta will deliver the annual Ivan M. and Janice S. Stone Memorial Lecture, “From Civil War to ‘Soft Authoritarianism’: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective,” at Beloit College during International Education Week. The lecture, which honors the memory of longtime Beloit professor Ivan Stone and his wife, Janice, will take place Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.
Sri Lanka's main opposition on Tuesday formed an alliance with minority Tamil and Muslim parties and a breakaway faction of the ruling coalition to contest possible snap elections.
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