SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 17 (IPS) - Ask any Sri Lankan, and he or she will cringe at the mention of water hyacinth, infamous in the country, where it is called by its more common Sri Lankan name Japan Jabbara. The weed-like water plant has ...
AUSTRALIA/SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 13 (IPS) - It is a story that spans three islands, across the breadth of the Indian Ocean. That is, of hundreds of boat people sailing the rough seas in unseaworthy vessels, risking life and limb in their ...
SRI LANKA: Analysis by Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Nov 7 (IPS) - One thing that has set apart the current administration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa from those of his predecessors is its diplomatic duals with international ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 4 (IPS) - Sudarma Senevirathanas teenage daughter is at an age when she can already be given the rubella vaccine, administered free of charge by government health officials at schools. But Senevirathana refuses to ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 23 (IPS) - When the European Union announced last year that it was seeking an investigation into alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka as a precondition for extending concessionary tariff rates for exports ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 14 (IPS) - Well before 1.7 million voters trooped to 1,485 polling stations on Oct. 10 to elect the 55 members of the Southern Provincial Council, it was a foregone conclusion that President Mahinda Rajapakasa would ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Sep 30 (IPS) - As the world awaits with bated breath the much-anticipated outcome of the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December, the impact of which will reverberate across the globe, Sri Lanka, like many ...
SRI LANKA: KATUNAYAKE, Sri Lanka, Sep 10 (IPS) - The room is dingy and cramped. The walls are unplastered and its rough cement edges can scrape the skin easily. Furniture is strewn all over the place, plastic chairs stacked one on top of ...
DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Sep 3 (IPS) - It is a walk that no one has taken in the last quarter of a century. The nation having been beset by a bloody sectarian war, who would have thought of travelling the length of Sri Lanka south ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO , Aug 6 (IPS) - Hope has once again returned to Sri Lankas resplendent beaches. Everyone, including hoteliers, boat operators, and beach boys, are hopeful that the end of a three decade old civil war will herald better ...
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