Sri Lanka News

The Indian Coast Guard is uncertain about getting back two warships that it leased out to the Sri Lankan Navy in 2007 on an annually renewable contract.

Sri Lankan health authorities on Sunday confirmed the island nation's first death from the H1N1 flu virus.

Merak , Nov.9 : Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.

New Zealand is unlikely to offer refuge to 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers plucked from a stricken boat, Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman said today.

New Zealand ruled out Tuesday taking any of the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board the Australian Customs ship Oceanic Viking off Indonesia.

When a migrant smuggling ship bound for Australia was seized in Indonesian waters last month, a 27-year-old with a thick beard stepped forward to speak for the boat people.

Australia and Sri Lanka on Monday entered into an co-operation agreement to stem the smuggling of Sri Lankans into Australia.

Bring them in...demonstrators outside the Immigration Department's offices yesterday voice their support for taking refugees Photo: Dean Sewell KEVIN RUDD has vowed there will be no backdown on asylum seeker policy as a new poll showed Australian attitudes towards immigration levels has not changed since the febrile days of 2001 and the MV Tampa.

Myanmar top leader Senior-General Than Shwe will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka soon, an official announcement from Nay Pyi Taw said on Monday, without giving the specific date of his visit.

Sydney, Nov 7: The Sri Lankan Government has said that the leader of a boatload of asylum-seekers held in Indonesia on their way to Australia, Alex, is a known people-smuggler, who had been previously deported from Canada.

Colombo - A 16-year-old Sri Lankan boy became the first victim in the country of influenza A , or swine flu, doctors said Sunday.

Sri Lanka's sidelined military chief, General Sarath Fonseka, will stand against President Mahinda Rajapakse in elections to beheld before April, a press report said yesterday.

The Tamil Tigers are finished as a military outfit but a small group of their feared suicide bombers still remain in Colombo, a top Sri Lankan official visiting India said.

Sunday, November 08, 2009 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's central bank on Saturday said it has been buying gold to diversify its reserves amid volatile currency markets, days after India announced it had purchased 200 tonnes of the precious metal.

AN Australian customs ship holding 78 asylum seekers off Indonesia should be sent to Sri Lanka, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says.

A man who jumped into the Indian ocean to escape arrest drowned after being badly beaten by Sri Lankan police in the water in front of a large crowd and television cameras, police said Saturday.

AN international syndicate, believed to be headed by expatriate Sri Lankan Tamils, are targeting their countrymen in Malaysia to make a fast buck.

About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict in Sri Lanka have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported.

The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.

Sat, Nov 7, 2009, 12:02 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 07, Colombo: The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR said some 90,000 of Sri Lanka's Internally Displaced Persons have returned to their homes in the past three months under the Sri Lankan government's resettlement program.