Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Type: City

Name: Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Latitude: 6.93

Longitude: 79.849998

population: 648,119

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Mirror Stock Watch 22-05-2013

Colombo International Container Ter minal (CICT), which is developed under the South Harbour Term... ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 4 reports

Emirates Airline

Emirates increases weekly flights to Sri Lanka's Colombo

(MENAFN) Emirates Airlines is planning to add 3 more weekly flights to Colombo starting this June in order to increase the capacity on its services to that destination, ... [Published MENAFN - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Colombo (Sri Lanka), Emirates Airline, Sri Lanka

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 reports

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Sri Lanka denies scuttling power devolution

Colombo, May 22 (IANS) Sri Lanka denied Wednesday plans to roll back power sharing mechanisms with the Tamil minority despite attempts to stop long overdue elections in the former war-torn north.Technology and Research Minister Champika Ranawaka announced ... [Published Mangalorean - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Roll Back

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 reports

Sri Lankan army to reduce military presence in northern Jaffna

?We will reduce the existing 17 military camps in Jaffna to just three,? Army Chief Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said.The fourteen camps pulled out from different parts in Jaffna would be relocated in the main Palaly cantonment, he said yesterday.Lands which ... [Published Firstpost.com - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Military/Armed Forces, Jagath Jayasuriya, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 2 reports

Little Lion bags award for hygiene

The annual award presentation "Manufacturing of Hygienic & Clean FOod - 2013" conducted by the Colombo municipality, Public Health Department was held at hotel Taj Samudra recently inaugurated by the Cabinet Minister, Economic Development Basil Rajapaksha ... [Published Sri Lanka Island - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Colombo (Sri Lanka), Taj Samudra, Hygienic

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 2 reports

Sri Lankan trade unions claim strike a success; govt. calls it a big flop

While the Coordinating Committee of Sri Lanka’s Trade Union Alliance (CCTUA) maintained that their token strike against the electricity tariff hike was successful all round the country, the Sri Lankan government said that overall attendance in public ... [Published Asia News Network - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Trade Union, Sri Lanka, Bandula Gunawardena, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

Colombo brings 1500 Sinhalese from South to Mannaar

Stepping up the process of colonisation of the country of Eezham Tamils, the occupying Sri Lanka has brought in 1,500 Sinhalese in buses to Musali DS division in Mannaar District, which is bordering the North Western and North Central provinces. The ... [Published Web Newswire - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Colombo (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka, Elections

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

Lucchese, Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, Colombo?Cohen?

Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors are considering charging SAC Capital as “a criminal enterprise, using a powerful legal tool employed against the mafia and drug gangs,” i.e. the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ... [Published Dealbreaker - 21 hours ago]

Entities: SAC Capital Advisors LP, RICO Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizatio..., Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Some local bodies failed to respond effectively to communal attacks-US

While claiming that trend in the Sri Lanka government’s respect for religious freedom did not change significantly during the year, the US said that ‘in certain instances, local authorities failed to respond effectively to communal attacks, including ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 21 2013]

Entities: Religion, Interfaith, Buddhism, US Embassy

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Sri Lanka's BBS: an old spectre in new garb?

Though interreligious violence in Sri Lanka is not new, the emergence of the well-organized, well-connected Buddhist radical group reflects a broader problem today - the alarming shortage of critical and constructive public debate.The latest, and perhaps ... [Published Open Democracy - May 21 2013]

Entities: Buddhism, Sri Lanka, Rioting, Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Sri Lanka to apprise Canada of human rights progress

Colombo: Sri Lanka on Monday said it will apprise Canada of the progress in the human rights situation on the island in view of the upcoming Commonwealth summit in Colombo which Ottawa has threatened to boycott."We have been presented with the chance ... [Published zeenews.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Human Rights, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Canada

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Getting Tough With Commemorative LTTE Celebrants Is A Start Where The TNA Should Also Be Censured!

$ All kudos to Army Commander Maj.Gen. Boniface Perera who has sent a clear message to those concerned that ?Any organisation or individual will not be allowed to venerate a terrorist organisation. Anyone participating in a commemoration ceremony for ... [Published LankaWeb - May 20 2013]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Vavuniya (Sri Lanka), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Velupillai Prabhakaran

Quotes

"Media reports and statements by interested parties, that Rolls Royce and BMW cars will be imported at a heavy cost to be used for the forthcoming CHOGM are baseless and false" the Minister said

Sri Lankan government dismisses claims of importing Rolls Royces for CHOGM [Published Colombo Page - 15 mins ago]

...9 of 1996 was approved. It is evident when drawing attention to the preface of the Act. It is said "It is an Act that provided provisions for immunity and privileges to certain officers and representatives of International organizations and their properties. As Vienna Convention relating to Diplomatic relationship was passed in Vienna on 19-04-1961, and as Sri Lanka is a party to that Convention and as it is necessary to make legal provision to fulfill the responsibility on the part of Sri Lanka, the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has thus declared Rules 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention have been applied to the Act as well. According to Rule 31 of the Schedule in that Act;"

Double Speak Of Norway Exposed [Published Asian Tribune - 3 hours ago]

"I am delighted that someone of Mack’s experience and expertise now going to be leading MillenniumIT, as it moves to the next exciting stage in its development and I very much look forward to working with him."

New Chief May 22 Sri Lanka based MillenniumIT appoints new chief [Published Lanka Business Online - 3 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Lucchese, Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, Colombo?C... [Published Dealbreaker - 21 hours ago] Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors are considering charging SAC Capital as “a criminal enterprise, using a powerful legal tool employed against the mafia and drug gangs,” i.e. the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
Lucchese, Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, Colombo…C... [Published Dealbreaker - 22 hours ago] Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors are considering charging SAC Capital as “a criminal enterprise, using a powerful legal tool employed against the mafia and drug gangs,” i.e. the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
How can you tell a charity from a political front? [Published Democracy in America - May 20 2013] THE New York Times had a nice discussion group the other day between legal experts on how to solve the problem of 501(c)(4)s. Basically, this category of non-profits is supposed to cover groups like the Sierra Club, the NRA, and the AARP, which have ...
Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s C... [Published Ezra Klein - May 20 2013] Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . (Photo by Bill ...
Sri Lanka: No Progress 4 Years On [Published Human rights news - May 20 2013] Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email (Colombo) – Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said today. This week marks ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Sri Lanka protest against ethic hatred [Published BBC News Video - World - Apr 28 2013]
Sri Lankans seek for their missing relatives [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 07 2013]
Sri Lanka curtailing S Arabia maid supply [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 26 2013]
Anger at Saudi beheading of Sri Lankan maid [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 10 2013]
Sri Lankan Chief Justice dismissal denounced [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Dec 16 2012]

Press Releases

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Emirates to Increase Flights to Colombo from 30... [Published Emirates News Releases - 5 hours ago]
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