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Sri Lanka on Thursday denied reports claiming that former Thailand PM Thaksin Shinawatra was being appointed economic adviser to the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.

Dec 31, Colombo: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) weapons smuggling ship ‘Princess Chrisanta’ hauled by the Sri Lankan Navy and is on display now in Galle for the public is attracting large crowds, the Defense Ministry says.

Dec 31, Jaffna: Sri Lankans are celebrating the arrival of the New Year with Buddhist religious ceremonies today as the Duruthu Full Moon Poya day falls on the New Year’s eve.

Dec 31, Colombo: The Sri Lankan Cricket team with several younger players is to leave for Bangladesh tomorrow (January 1) for the tri-series with India and Bangladesh.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF), in a 2009 round-up report of key events on journalists, journalism and war, refers to the “mass exodus of journalists from repressive countries such as Iran and Sri Lanka” as RSF’s major concern,” and notes that “[t]he authorities in these countries have understood that by pushing journalists into exile, they can [...]

Dec 31, Colombo: The global corruption watchdog Transparency International has accused the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on misusing state funds and properties to campaign for his 2010 reelection bid.

BANGKOK – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand has dismissed news reports that ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be appointed the economic advisor to the Sri Lankan government.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) raided a printing press printing new thousand rupee bill with President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s image on it and arrested four suspects including three school students.

COLOMBO - Seven months after Sri Lanka ended nearly 40 years of bloody insurgency on the island, allegations of war crimes continue to haunt President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is seeking re-election next month.

In his new year message, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said his government’s strategy of development in the new decade would be to make the nation the South Asian hub of ocean and air traffic and communications in a knowledge-based society.

The mud slinging campaigns carried out by Opposition parties against President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family on several alleged transactions and dealings are baseless and unfounded, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said.

(Lanka-e-News, Dec.31, 2009, 3.55PM) It is the general consensus that the President is seeking to conduct Presidential elections 2010 riding roughshod on all the laws of the country. It is also an undisputed fact that this is…

Jaffna University Student Union (JUSU), in a press report Wednesday, said that all Tamil factions should forget their political differences to arrive at a united decision in regard to the forthcoming presidential election. Decisions spurred by emotions in the past and their consequences should be remembered and Tamils should not be allowed to be exploited [...]

Sri Lanka Police Wednesday arrested three Tamil youths in Colombo in a cordon and search operation. One youth was taken into custody in Bambalapitya, and the other two from Wellawatte, and all three are now detained in the fourth floor of the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters undergoing interrogation, according relatives of the arrested youths.

Five persons, including two resettled Vanni IDPs, in Jaffna penisula have died due to dengue fever which is spreading at an alarming rate while hospitals are unable to treat dengue patients for want of basic facilities, according to Dr. K. Ketheswaran, Jaffna Director of Public Health (DPHS). Nearly 40 to 50 dengue patients are admitted [...]

Anti-graft campaign group Transparency International accused Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday of using state property and public cash to illegally finance his re-election bid.

The Sri Lankan stock exchange more than doubled in value in 2009, figures showed Wednesday on the la..

Dec 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket plans to use the upcoming tri series in Bangladesh in January as a testing platform for the younger Sri Lankan players.

Dec 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka government today totally rejected the recent media reports that the government is planning to appoint former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka here Thursday denied speculation that former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been appointed its economic advisor.

Dec 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s election monitoring group Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) says that there is no transparency in election campaign financing of the presidential candidates for the upcoming election.

Dec 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka police department is pursuing to apprehend the driver of the Buddhist monk who was earlier arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department for defrauding people promising jobs overseas.

Dec 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka government has lifted the fishing restrictions imposed on the fishermen in the East in a move to uplift the country’s fishing industry.

Sri Lanka Police Wednesday arrested three Tamil youths in Colombo in a cordon and search operation. One youth was taken into custody in Bambalapitya, and the other two from Wellawatte, and all three are now detained in the fourth floor of the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters undergoing interrogation, according relatives of the arrested youths.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry denied a report that former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been appointed its economic advisor.

Sri Lanka on Thursday denied a report that the government planned to appoint fugitive ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser. Thaksin’s brother-in-law Somchai Wongsawat claimed on Wednesday that Colombo will name Thaksin as an adviser to the government.

The world’s most experienced one-day batsman, Sanath Jayasuriya, has been axed from next month’s limited-overs tri-series in Bangladesh , Sri Lanka Cricket said yesterday.

NEW DELHI: Unfit pitch conditions at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium forced the fifth and final one-day international between India and Sri Lanka to be abandoned yesterday.Sri Lanka, sent in to bat, were 83-5 in the 24th over when the umpires stopped play after a ball from debutante seamer Sudeep Tyagi bounced alarmingly before going head-high [...]

Sanath Jayasuriya and Lasith Malinga were dropped from Sri Lanka’s limited over squad as cricket selectors opted for a new-look side.

Sanath Jayasuriya and Lasith Malinga have been dropped from Sri Lanka’s limited over squad.

Minnesota and journalist Jesse Hardman got an inside view of the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka, and in the midst of the chaos he came upon an amazing story of a forgotten people.

Restriction on the travel of media persons to Jaffna peninsula
via A-9 highway still remains, Director General of the Media
Centre for National Security, Lakshman Hulugalla, told media in Colombo Wednesday.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF), in a 2009 round-up report of key events on journalists, journalism and war, refers to the “mass exodus of journalists from repressive countries such as Iran and Sri Lanka” as RSF’s major concern,” and notes that “[t]he authorities in these countries have understood that by pushing journalists into exile, they can [...]

Reporters sans frontières (RSF), in a 2009 round-up report of key events on journalists, journalism and war, refers to the “mass exodus of journalists from repressive countries such as Iran and Sri Lanka” as RSF’s major concern,” and notes that “[t]he authorities in these countries have understood that by pushing journalists into exile, they can [...]

Dec 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa recently donated a HDR brachytherapy instrument worth 260,000 rupees for the treatment of cervical cancer to the Director of Maharagama Cancer Hospital Dr. Palitha Balawardena.

Sri Lanka Army(SLA) intelligence officers took into custody Sunday a Tamil civilian staying in a lodge in Colombo. Criminal Investgaation Department (CID) has notified the civilian’s wife that her husband is being detained in the Fourth Floor of CID headquarters in Colombo.

Indian High Commissioner Ashok K.Kantha Tuesday evening met the
Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy Vice Admiral Thissara Samarasinghe in
a courtesy call at the latter’s headquarters and discussed mutual
interests of the two countries. The discussion included the matter of
providing training of SL navy personnel in India, Colombo media
reported quoting SL navy sources.

Ever heard of ‘archaeology’ being first priority in a conquered territory? If not, then you don’t know Sri Lanka, writes an academic from Jaffna on Colombo’s heritage genocide. Colombo’s use of archaeology against Tamils is not new. But the dimensions to which Tamils are now exposed to are not only its acceleration but the tragedy [...]

Sanath Jayasuriya and Lasith Malinga were dropped from Sri Lanka’s limited over squad as cricket selectors opted for a new-look side.

Dec 30, Colombo: The government today denied the opposition parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera’s allegations that the welfare funds of the Civil Defence Force were misused by the government.

Dec 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s annual average inflation rate declined to a record six-year low of 3.4 percent in December, from 4.1 percent in the previous month, the Central Bank reported today.

Dec 30, Anuradhapura: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning visited the weekly fair in Mihintale and chatted with the traders and the fair goers.

“Why we need 1700 temples for only 3 million Indians in Malaysia? It does not make sense but we still continue to build temples and fight for it. We only have 450 Tamil schools in Malaysia and it is getting lesser,” says a news-group posting from Hindraf, New York. At least [...]

(Lanka-e-News, Dec.30, 2009, 8.30PM) Former MP and Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) National Organizer and member for 20 years, and former MP, R. Yogarajan and Vice President of the CWC and Deputy minister M. Satchithananthan resigned their posts…

(Lanka-e-News, Dec.30, 2009, 8.30PM) Addressing a media briefing at the UNP media unit today (30), UNP M.P. Lakshman Kiriella said, the Govt. is unable to explain where a colossal sum of Rs. 47 billion funds for Tsunami relief received…

(Lanka-e-News, Dec.30, 2009, 8.30PM) Investment promotion Minister Naveen Dissanayake has abandoned all election activities connected with President’s campaign in Nuwara Eliya and come to Colombo…

(Lanka-e-News, Dec.30, 2009, 8.30PM) The former Naval commander and secretary to the Highways Minister, Vasantha Karranagoda had sent a letter of demand claiming Rs. 500 million as compensation for defamation from retired…

Dec 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Central Bank today issued a clarification on its recent release of a 1000-rupee note with the image of the country’s President on one side of the note.

President says the voters will have to choose between the dictatorship and the democracy at the elections.

Dec 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka stock market reached another high Wednesday, the last trading day for the year, more than doubling in value and becoming one of the best performers in the world.

Dec 30, Colombo: Professor Harendra de Silva, Professor of Paediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, of Kelaniya University has been shortlisted along with nine other eminent individuals for this year’s BMJ Group Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering efforts to create awareness of child abuse in Sri Lanka and other countries.

Sri Lanka have omitted veteran batsman Sanath Jayasuriya and bowlers Lasith Malinga and Ajantha Mendis for next month’s tri-nations series in Bangladesh.

(RTTNews) - Sri Lanka’s inflation accelerated to a nine-month high in December, official data showed Wednesday. The Colombo consumer price index or CPI rose 4.8% year-on-year in December, faster than the 2.8% rise recorded in November. A year ago, the CPI was up 14.4%.

Former CWC leaders accuse Rajapaksa administration of misleading the world to wage war against the LTTE.

Sri Lanka Army(SLA) intelligence officers took into custody Sunday a Tamil civilian staying in a lodge in Colombo. Criminal Investgaation Department (CID) has notified the civilian’s wife that her husband is being detained in the Fourth Floor of CID headquarters in Colombo.

Ever heard of archaeology being first priority in a conquered territory? If not, then you dont know Sri Lanka, writes an academic from Jaffna on Colombos heritage genocide. Colombos use of archaeology against Tamils is not new. But the dimensions to which Tamils are now exposed to are not only its acceleration but the tragedy [...]

Rohana Ruwanthilake of Gampola Red Sun Sports Club has been appointed to lead the Sri Lanka Football team at the up coming South Asian Games (SAG) and Asian Challenge Cup scheduled to be held next year January and February respectively-JNW

Opposition Presidential Candidate General Sarath Fonseka is prepared to face President Mahinda Rajap..

Indian High Commissioner Ashok K.Kantha Tuesday evening met the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy Vice Admiral Thissara Samarasinghe in a courtesy call at the latters headquarters and discussed mutual interests of the two countries. The discussion included the matter of providing training of SL navy personnel in India, Colombo media reported quoting SL navy [...]

Sri Lanka, an island country in South Asia, is in preparing to appoint former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra its economic adviser, former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat revealed on Wednesday.