Following the increase in diesel prices by the Sri Lanka government, the private bus owners today demanded a bus fare hike again.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr. Hassan Wirajuda and other high ranking persons in the Indonesian Government commended the measures taken by the Sri Lankan Government to ensure that Tamil people rescued from the clutches of the LTTE have all necessary facilities....
Christopher Caldwell
Le Monde selon K. by Pierre Péan
In mid-May, as the Sri Lankan army completed its rout of the Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapaksa described the scorched-earth campaign as ‘an unprecedented humanitarian operation’. Others were more inclined to see it as a calamity. Among them was the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who had travelled to Sri Lanka with David Miliband to argue, in vain, for a truce....
HANGZHOU, July 1 (Bernama) -- Four people are missing after a Singapore-registered cargo ship and a Chinese vessel loaded with sand, collided in the East China Sea off east China's Zhejiang Province early on Wednesday....
The Colombo Chief Magistrate yesterday (29) granted permission to hold Wanni District TNA parliamentarian Sathasivam Kanagaratnam by another 90 days for the CID to continue investigations into the alleged links between the legislator and the LTTE....