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Sri Lanka Supreme Court order to prevent sale of shopping bags
Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 11:58 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 14, Colombo: Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ordered all shops and super markets to stop offering shopping bags for a price.
Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs assists overstaying workers to return
Monday, October 13, 2008, 3:46 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs is providing assistance to expatriate workers staying illegally in Kuwait to return ...
Panel Discusses How Asian Migrant Women Are Vulnerable To HIV
Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 13 Oct 2008 Although Asian migrant women working in Arab countries generate significant economic benefits for both their ...
Palestinian President takes part in a Jumma Prayer in Colombo
Friday, October 10, 2008, 13:37 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 10, Colombo: Visiting Palestinian President Dr.
Sri Lanka inks historic agreement with the State of Palestine
Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:10 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka and the State of Palestine yesterday inked a historic agreement on Technical Co-operation and Practical Training ...
Sri Lanka Tourism faces downturn
's struggling tourism industry faces crisis with further drop of tourist arrivals in August.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on a goodwill mission to the Indian subcontinent, arrived in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Thursday for a visit aimed at boosting political and technical ties with Sri ...
Sri Lanka: 'Rice Paddies More Valuable Than Int'l Airport'
Sri Lankan rice farmers who fought against President Mahinda Rajapakse and his powerful brothers, trying to construct an international airport on their paddies, say they won because their cause was just and ...
SriLankan Airlines celebrates the proud tradition of honesty among its staff
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 17:38 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 02, Colombo: SriLankan Airlines today celebrated the strong tradition of honesty among its employees, by recognizing 18 staff members ...
US Government strongly condemns today's suicide attack in Sri Lanka
Monday, October 6, 2008, 14:30 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 06, Colombo: United States today issuing a media communiqu condemned today's terrorist attack in Anuradhapura that claimed the lives of ...
SLA arrests youth, another reported missing, in Jaffna
A 26-year-old Tamil youth from Kaithadi in Jaffna, temporarily staying Colombo, was reported missing after going out on an errand 22nd September, according to a complaint registered by his mother with the Human ...
Palestinian Leader to visit Sri Lanka
Sunday, October 5, 2008, 16:36 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 05, Colombo: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka, Palestine Media Center reported today.
Sri Lanka targets Saudis for tourism
JEDDAH: Citizens and expatriates from Saudi Arabia have been increasingly visiting or traveling through Sri Lanka.
Another census move in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Unfazed by the criticism from several quarters over its September 21 directive to the citizens of five districts of Northern Province living in and around Colombo to "re-register" themselves with the ...
Sri Lanka's main opposition fights again to reduce oil prices
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 11:45 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition, the United National Party today handed over a petition to the Finance Secretary demanding a ...
Co-chairs emphasise on immediate humanitarian concerns
"We're placing a lot of emphasis right now on the protection of human rights for civilians who are caught in the fighting, and the democratic government's responsibility for extending - for respecting and ...
Sri Lanka: Un Supplies to Rebel-Held Areas Will Resume
Tens of thousands of civilians, trapped by fighting between Tamil rebels and the Sri Lankan armed forces in the Vanni, may soon receive their first supplies of essentials since Sep.
UN to deliver first food convoy to rebel held areas of Sri Lanka after the pull out
Saturday, September 27, 2008, 21:51 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Sept 28, Colombo: The first convoy of food supplies since the aid workers pulled out on 16 September will travel under the UN flag to ...
Japan funds Agro Well Project in Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka
Friday, September 26, 2008, 17:39 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Sept 26, Colombo: The Japanese government has provided US$ 48,511, to construct 15 Agro Wells in the Maddyama, Nuwaragampalatha DS ...
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