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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...
Gold prices hit a record high of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce on Monday in response to rising demand for the precious metal from emerging economies and a decline in the value of the dollar.
Australia will open their World Cup defence in 2011 with a match against Zimbabwe in Ahmedabad, India, on Feb. 21, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Monday.
Wow, the light bulb finally went on last week. Perhaps we have never truly understood investing. Bank of England in the 1990s was selling Gold as it plunged to below $300. Now, with Gold soaring above US$1,000, the Reserve Bank of India is buying. The trick is to apparently sell low and buy high.
Worries about the fast-falling dollar are sending gold prices to record highs. Gold rose to $1,111.70 an ounce Monday as the dollar sank to a 15-month low against other major currencies in New York trading. The precious metal and the U.S. currency have had an inverse relationship since March. At that time, a budding economic recovery revived interest in investments that grow with the economy ...
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said that he will meet with his Indonesian counterpart in Singapore later Tuesday to discuss the standoff over Sri Lankan asylum seekers anchored in Indonesian waters.
New Delhi - Eight schoolchildren and a teacher were killed and 33 others injured when their bus fell into a river in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, news reports said Monday. The children were all primary school students from Ratlam distr...
The price of gold hit a record high of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday in response to a surge in demand from emerging markets and a sharp drop in the value of the dollar.
Sri Lanka's military commander left the United States ahead of possible questioning over alleged war crimes committed during the defeat of the island's Tamil rebels, a legislator said Wednesday.
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australian rescue teams may call off a search today for nine people missing after their boat sank off the northwestern coast, as the government said 27 surviving Sri Lankans would be taken to an immigration detention center on Christmas Island for processing.
Two years ago, the Carrefour Feuilles (pronounced "kar-ah-fur fay") neighborhood was considered too dangerous for U.N. peacekeepers who were not protected by armored vehicles. And even today, a dozen or so Sri Lankan troops garrisoned here nervously stand watch behind heavy fortifications. But Carrefour Fueilles has turned out to be perfect for an experimental solid waste processing and ...
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...
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