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May 28, Colombo: The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to reject the proposal made by Chief Government Whip Minister Dinesh Gunawardana to increase the medical insurance allowance of Parliament members.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 28 (UPI) — The United Nations has offered support to Sri Lanka’s efforts to deal with large numbers of refugees following the end of the Tamil Tiger war, officials say.

May 28, Colombo: B. Siripala Coorey, a newly appointed councillor for the Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Municipal Council, passed away this morning soon after taking his oaths.

May 28, Colombo: The fifteen-man Sri Lanka national cricket squad led by the newly appointed Kumar Sangakkara left the country this morning to participate in the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.

Army medical experts match and confirm DNA tests on Prabhakaran and his son Charles Anthony-MCNS-JNW

Army medical experts match and confirm DNA tests on Prabhakaran and his son Charles Anthony-MCNS-JNW

May 28, Colombo: Patricia Butenis has been appointed as the new United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives by US President Barack Obama. Patricia Butenis has previously been posted in Iraq, Pakistan and India as the US Ambassador, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said.

Army identifies parents of V. Prabhakaran living among internally displaced civilians in Vanni-MCNS-JNW

Army identifies parents of V. Prabhakaran living among internally displaced civilians in Vanni-MCNS-JNW

Sri Lanka celebrated a major diplomatic victory Thursday after managing to torpedo Western demands for a probe into alleged war crimes committed during the offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels.

The Sri Lankan government is hailing its “diplomatic victory” following the decision of the UN Human Rights Council to support its humanitarian efforts

Sangakkara feels T20 cricket presents less pressure than Tests and One-day cricket. .

COLOMBO (AFP)–Sri Lanka’s defeated Tamil Tiger rebels could carry out hit- and-run attacks but lack the ability to militarily regroup, the island’s senior army general said Thursday.

Supporting UN High Commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay’s, call for the investigation of war-crimes of both sides to the conflict, the Sri Lanka Government and the Liberation Tigers, the New York Times, in its Wednesday editorial said, “[T]he government claims it must screen out rebels hiding in the camps. But aid workers suspect other [...]

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ordered the state to pay Arjuna Ranatunga, the former Sri Lanka interim committee chairman, SLR 100,000 (US$ 869) in compensation after he was sacked by sports minister Gamini Lokuge last year.

COLOMBO (AFP)–Sri Lanka celebrated a major diplomatic victory Thursday after managing to torpedo Western demands for a probe into alleged war crimes committed during the offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has been barred from visiting internment camps in Sri Lanka to check on people held by the Colombo government, the head of the organisation has said. Jakob Kellenberger has asked the Sri Lankan government for access to all its camps, which are ringed by barbed wire and soldiers, [...]

Amnesty International calls on President Obama to urgently act to prevent the indiscriminate killing of civilians in the current conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka.

The World Cup 2011, to be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, is expected to cost the ICC between US$40 million to $50 million according to reports.

Minister Bathiyutheen says adequate dry rations & water available for IDPs; more donations of spices, onions, vegetables appreciated-JNW

The conflicts in Sri Lanka and Pakistan have added to human rights abuses in Asia this year, Amnesty International said in its annual report Thursday.

Sri Lanka said Wednesday it was confident of averting an international probe into alleged war crimes..

Sri Lanka was Thursday celebrating a major diplomatic victory over Western nations determined to investigate alleged war crimes committed during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government has relaxed restrictions on motor vehicles in the country's largest refugee camp that had hampered aid distribution, though the needs of people there remain acute, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

In what will be seen as a further blow to its already damaged credibility, the UN human rights council on Wednesday voted in favour of a mild resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka which western nations said would do nothing to help victims of the just-ended civil war or remedy widespread human rights violations.

President Barack Obama named US ambassadors to Japan, India and Sri Lanka, amid heightened tension in Asia over North Korea’s nuclear tests, unrest in Pakistan and ethnic tension in Sri Lanka.

Farmer Clubs, an initiative to take the latest information, concepts and practices to Sri Lanka`s ag..

Foreign allies of the LTTE have shifted their anti-Sri Lanka operations to a different fro..

MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka (AFP) - A young mother shows a picture of her missing baby, last seen injured and screaming as her family dodged shells and bullets to escape the final battle between Sri Lankan troops and the Tamil Tigers.

May 28 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations Human Rights council passed a resolution on Sri Lanka that failed to include calls by European nations for a probe into abuses during the 26- year civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Govt decides to direct disabled & elderly in North relief centres to relatives capable of taking care of them-Info Dept-JNW

Five Tamil fishermen went for fishing from Oaddamaavadi in Batticaloa
district have been reported missing since May 14. They left in a
trawler for deep fishing in Bay of Bengal but failed to return
thereafter, according to complaints lodged with the Kalkudaa Police by
their relatives.

(Adds details, updates with Sri Lanka appointment.) WASHINGTON (AFP)–President Barack Obama on Wednesday named U.S. ambassadors to Japan, India and Sri Lanka, amid heightened tension in Asia over North Korea’s nuclear tests, unrest in Pakistan and ethnic tension in Sri Lanka.

A shop run by Tamil person located along Kalveti Road in Wattala in Colombo district was burnt down on Monday early morning by two unidentified persons who came in a motorbike. The shop was reduced to
ashes, according to complaint lodged with the Wattala Police by the owner.

Sri Lanka says it is confident of averting an international probe into alleged war crimes committed during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lanka says it is confident of averting a probe into alleged war crimes committed during the war with the Tamil Tigers.

Source: Reuters * Human Rights Council welcomes Sri Lankan war win

* Aid groups seek access to 300,000 uprooted people

(Adds Sri Lanka-backed resolution adopted)

By Laura MacInnis

GENEVA, May 27 (Reuters …

Source: Human Rights Watch (Geneva) - The United Nations Human Rights Council on May 27 passed a deeply flawed resolution on Sri Lanka that ignores calls for an international investigation into alleged abuses during recent …

Sri Lanka claimed a propaganda victory last night after the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution praising its defeat of the Tamil Tigers and condemning the rebels for using civilians as human shields.

Hundreds of Sinhalese extremists from political parties and other organizations including Buddhist monks staged a protest demonstration Wednesday in front of the Canadian Embassy in Colombo, accusing the Canadian government of supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The UN offers support for humanitarian efforts in Sri Lanka, Human rights groups said the resolution ignored claims of abuse by the army and rebels

Residents of Jaffna peninsula are experiencing an acute shortage of essential food commodities including wheat flour and sugar, sources in Jaffna said. Jaffna Government Agent (GA), in a press release Tuesday night, said that arrangements are being made to get down wheat flour from Trincomalee and sugar from Colombo.

Source: Human Rights Watch (Geneva) - The United Nations Human Rights Council on May 27
passed a deeply flawed resolution on Sri Lanka that ignores calls for an international investigation into alleged abuses during recent …

Hundreds of government supporters have staged a protest outside the Canadian Embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, pelting it with stones and spraying graffiti on its walls.

Sri Lanka says it is confident of averting a probe into alleged war crimes committed during the war with the Tamil Tigers.

The UN offers support for humanitarian efforts in Sri Lanka, but fails to appease human rights groups and aid agencies.

At first glance, the admission by the LTTE’s international head, Padmanathan, that their leader Prabhakaran is dead might seem like the Tamil Tigers simply bowing to the inevitable

“The conditions prevailing in Jaffna peninsula do not encourage new investments or fresh business ventures,” Jaffna Traders’ Union (JTU) representatives told the delegation from Colombo Chamber of Commerce that paid a visit to Jaffna Tuesday, sources in Jaffna said.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan troops on a mission to flush out the remnants of the Tamil Tiger rebels killed 11 suspected guerrillas in the eastern jungles Wednesday, the…

(Lanka-e-News, May 27, 2009, 9.45 PM) Minister of National Integration Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman says that the wife and the two children…

Hundreds of government supporters have staged a protest outside the Canadian Embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo.

Sri Lanka’s government has relaxed restrictions on motor vehicles in the country’s largest refugee camp that had hampered aid distribution, though the needs of people there remain acute, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

The UN Human Rights Council ended a special session on Sri Lanka’s conflict on Wednesday with diplomats failing to bridge an Asian-Western divide over whether to probe alleged abuses.

Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s government has relaxed restrictions on motor vehicles in the country’s largest refugee camp that had hampered aid distribution, …

Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s government has relaxed restrictions on motor vehicles in the country’s largest refugee camp that had hampered aid distribution, …

Sri Lanka says it is confident of averting an international probe into alleged war crimes committed during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

SINGAPORE : With the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka now has the opportunity to close this chapter of its history and begin the process of national healing and reconciliation.

(Lanka-e-News, May 27, 2009, 11.50 AM) A person named Arivazakan claiming to be the chief of the international intelligence secretariat of the LTTE says that his leader Velupillai Prabakaran is alive and…

(Lanka-e-News, May 27, 2009, 12.30 PM) The United Nations Human Rights Council clashed Tuesday (26) over two competing resolutions on how to provide aid…