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SRI LANKA: Oil Futures Gamble Burns 300 Million Dollar Hole

SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 24 (IPS) - The Sri Lankan government is grappling with a costly 300 million dollar payout to Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), following a disastrous oil futures contract between the banks and the ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  24 Nov 2008

SRI LANKA: Media Groups to Challenge New Restrictions

SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 3 (IPS) - Media groups in Sri Lanka, already restricted from covering the war against Tamil rebels in the north, are bracing to challenge new regulations that seek to control television broadcasting and new media. ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  2 Nov 2008

SRI LANKA: Spinning Livelihoods From Coir Fibre

SRI LANKA: HAMBANTOTA, Oct 30 (IPS) - Sriyawathie wades into a murky, greenish pond in this coastal district and scoops out coconut husks that have been left in the water for retting before being dried and spun into coir rope, matting and ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  30 Oct 2008

RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Court Steps in as Governance Falters

RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 27 (IPS) - Finding themselves up against corrupt politicians and indifferent governance Sri Lankans are increasingly turning to the country's Supreme Court for relief, even for solutions to everyday issues. A ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  27 Oct 2008

RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Migrants Deaf to Death Penalty Warnings

RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 22 (IPS) - Foreign workers and their families continue to turn a blind eye to the risk of execution in the Middle East, particularly to the dangers of going to Saudi Arabia with its 'macabre' death penalty ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  22 Oct 2008

SRI LANKA: War May Cost Trade Benefits From EU

SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 21 (IPS) - By refusing to allow the European Union to probe implementation of international labour and human rights covenants, on the grounds of sovereignty infringement, the Sri Lankan government may be ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  21 Oct 2008

SRI LANKA: 'Rice Paddies More Valuable Than Int'l Airport'

SRI LANKA: HAMBANTOTA, Oct 9 (IPS) - 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 ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  9 Oct 2008

SRI LANKA: Trading Debts Against Carbon Credits?

SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 7 (IPS) - Little Sri Lanka wants developing countries to be able to trade their debts against the environment destruction and climate change attributed to the developed nations. Piloting the idea is Sri Lanka's ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  7 Oct 2008

SRI LANKA: Civilians Urge UN Not to Leave War Zone

SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Sep 16 (IPS) - As the Sri Lankan army stands poised to capture the rebel headquarters of Kilinochchi in northern Sri Lanka, residents of the town are urging United Nations agencies not to vacate the region as ordered by ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  16 Sep 2008

SRI LANKA: Troops Surround Rebel Hq - NGOs Ordered Out

SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Sep 9 (IPS) - Saying it was keen to avoid a repeat of the August 2006 massacre of 17 local workers of a French aid agency, the government has ordered all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to leave the Tamil ...

From FEIZAL SAMATH, Inter Press Service,  9 Sep 2008

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