SRI Lanka on Tuesday granted Chinese companies a separate economic zone on the island which has just ended nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed. China’s Huichen Investment Holdings Limited will manage and bring new investments into the Mirigama zone, some 55 kilometres north of Colombo, for a period of 33 years, officials said. Over the [...]
Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay and file-sharing technology company Peerialism. GGF claims to have the biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world. The changeover of ownership is scheduled for August 2009, whereby GGF will take over the operation [...]
MADONNA’S handlers are getting all possessive over the pop legend’s body. Tape emblazoned with the word ‘fragile’ was strategically wrapped around the rude part of a framed picture of Madge posing topless in 1979. The snap was taken of the Like A Virgin star when she was trying to ply a trade as a model [...]
A MIRACLE toddler has been rescued from the sea after a Yemeni airliner smashed into the Indian Ocean this morning. The tot is the only person to be found alive after the plane crashed near the Comoros archipelago with 153 people on board. Rescue workers have said three more bodies have been retrieved along with [...]
Troops of Task Force 8 (TF-8) have unearthed two large scale torpedoes and a launcher which had been buried by the LTTE terrorists in Puthukudiyiruppu area while conducting the clearing operations yesterday, 29 June, on information received by the ex-LTTE cadre. The two torpedoes and the launcher had been buried neatly wrapping them in Polythene [...]
Sri Lanka plans to add at least 50,000 people to its security forces to help control territory won back from Tamil Tiger separatists in the 25-year war that ended in May, the government said on Tuesday. The move could further complicate the country’s efforts to get an International Monetary Fund loan seen as an important [...]
Sri Lankan cricket officials fear a ghost attack on the visiting Pakistani team and have taken unprecedented security precautions not seen even during the reign of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, it has been revealed. In the first outing of the Pakistan team, hundreds of armed guards virtually cordoned off any unauthorized entry into [...]
The bus driver of the Sri Lankan cricket team, Meher Mohammad Khalil, who by his presence of mind and prompt action saved the lives of the Lankan cricketers during the Lahore terror strike, has said that he would be praying for Pakistan’s victory during the forthcoming Test and one-day series between both the countries. Khalil [...]
Private equity investors wax poetic about Asia, but for the most part, by Asia, they mean established economies like Japan, or up-and-comers like China or India. Sri Lanka tends to be an area that gets a lot less focus, but one firm, Singapore-based Calamander Capital Ltd., hopes to change that. Calamander, headed by Chairman Roman [...]
The LTTE’s elusive and self-proclaimed International Relations Chief Selvaraja Padmanathan alias KP has squarely blamed India for the humiliating defeat of the Tamil Tigers in the hands of the Sri Lankan security forces in the jungles of Vanni last month. “In the recent war, India sided with Sri Lanka firmly and provided full support to [...]
Approximately 15 years before the news of Prabhakaran’s sudden death filtered through to Colombo, on May 17 this year, and the thunder of fire crackers echoed throughout the country, I had bought 100 fire crackers, in wishful anticipation of this event. Of course, no such thing happened then, and two years later, I lit the [...]
The cause of the global pop star Michael Jackson’s death is yet to be determined even as of Monday, June 29 despite two autopsies and police interviews were conducted with his cardiologist Conrad Murray who was with him at the time he was dieing at his residence in Los Angeles. According to the Associated Press [...]
An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia crashed into choppy seas as it came in to land on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, officials said. “The plane has crashed and we still don’t know exactly where. We think it’s in the area of Mitsamiouli. There were [...]
India has conveyed to Sri Lanka its displeasure over the pace of rehabilitation of Tamils displaced in the final phase of the war between Government forces and the LTTE. India’s concern was conveyed to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brothers Basil and Gotabaya Rajapaksas when they visited New Delhi last week. Disclosing this to reporters [...]
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