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Sri Lanka
International Desk
August 28, 2010
Puttalam Township, Sri Lanka -- More than 40 U.S. servicemembers arrived in Sri Lanka to begin a six-day combined medical and engineering training mission with the Sri Lankan government and medical representatives from Maldives and Mongolia.
The mission, called Pacific Angel-Sri Lanka, will be co...
Irena Knehtl
December 27, 2009
Sri Lanka is the fastest growing gem-cutting and finishing center in the world. The gem industry produces stones that meet the highest international standards.
Joe Fleishman
May 25, 2009
Humanitarian crisis is looming Sri Lanka. After three decades of civil war Sri Lanka is now straggling to establish full control of Provakaran´s land. Provakaran is now dead but his legacy is still remaining. Sri Lankan government is now facing widespread criticism internationally for keeping the world in total darkness for what is happening inside the former LTTE territory.
Congressional Desk
May 19, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN), Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs and Senators Brown (D-OH), Brownback (R-KS) and ...
Bobby Ramakant
April 29, 2009
Activists expressed their deep anguish and concern on unabated mass killings in Sri Lanka which is, as they underlined, "no short of a humanitarian disaster in northern Sri Lanka".
Joe Fleishman
April 27, 2009
The Tamil Tiger Rebels have declared ceasefire what they said on the purpose of saving the civilians. However, Sri Lankan authorities have rejected the proposal of ceasefire called by Tamil Tigers. The Government has its own simple explanation – they don´t trust Tamil Tigers. Tamil Tiger Rebels have a very bad history and the Sri Lankan government does not want to take anymore chances.
International Desk
April 06, 2009
Sri Lankan journalist and editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was assassinated on 8 January this year, has been named as the laureate of the 2009 World Press Freedom Prize by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Mr. Wickrematunge was an attorney who also ...
International Desk
April 02, 2009
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that 1,000 metric tons of critically-needed food assistance has been dispatched to a designated "safe zone" in north-eastern Sri Lanka, where more than 100,000 people have been displaced by fighting.
The items were sent aboard a ship charte...
Congressional Desk
March 23, 2009
Washington, D.C., Congressman Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, has organized a bipartisan Congressional effort calling for U.S. and international action to confront the grave humanitarian crisis in northern Sri Lanka. Over 200,000 civilians are trapped in the Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka amid f...
Madhavi Bhasin
October 29, 2008
India's recent policy approach with regard to the Sri Lankan ethnic crisis reflects the flaws of India's regional diplomacy.
