Sri Lanka News
LIFE'S A BEACH
Friday December 18, 2009
Cool and calm ... children play on the shore at Ambalangoda, on Sri Lanka's southern coast. The Boxing Day tsunami devastated the island's coastal belt nearly five years ago, killing 40,000 people in Sri Lanka and more than 225,000 in 14 countries. More than 1 million people were displaced.Sri Lanka denies order to kill rebel leaders
Tuesday December 15, 2009
THE Sri Lankan Government has angrily denied an allegation by a former army chief, General Sarath Fonseka, that the Defence Secretary ordered the killing of Tamil Tiger rebel leaders as they were trying to surrender.Sri Lanka deal aimed at smugglers
Tuesday November 10, 2009
AUSTRALIA and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement that both countries say will make it easier to investigate and prosecute people smugglers.Rudd pressed to visit Sri Lankan camps
Saturday October 17, 2009
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd must urgently travel to Sri Lanka to inspect overcrowded camps in the country's north, housing up to 300,000 displaced people, according to an Australian-based Tamil rights advocate.Fears for safety of UN official
Saturday September 12, 2009
AN AUSTRALIAN United Nations official has received anonymous threats to his safety days after being branded a terrorist sympathiser by the Sri Lankan Government and ordered to leave the country.UN official receives phone threats after speaking about Tamil camps
Saturday September 12, 2009
AN AUSTRALIAN United Nations official has received anonymous threats to his safety days after being branded a terrorist sympathiser by the Sri Lankan Government and ordered to leave the country.Another hit for Tigers as new leader arrested
Saturday August 8, 2009
THE new head of the Tamil Tigers, Kumaran Pathmanathan, was being interrogated in Sri Lanka last night after being arrested outside the country and flown to the capital, authorities have said.Bayliss stands firm with Lankans
Tuesday June 9, 2009
AT NO stage in the past four months, in the aftermath of the Lahore terrorist attacks on his team and during the violent end to Sri Lanka's civil war, did the country's Australian coach think of deserting his post.Sri Lankans back on the pitch, thanking game's healing power
Tuesday June 9, 2009
AT NO stage in the past three months, in the aftermath of the Lahore terrorism attacks on his team and during the violent end to Sri Lanka's civil war, did the country's Australian coach think of deserting his post.A Voice For The People
Thursday January 15, 2009
A free press will survive in Sri Lanka, despite the brutal means used to silence journalists, wrote Lasantha Wickrematunga, before he was killed last week.Hit-run Arrest Made After Mobile Phone Trace
Thursday January 15, 2009
A REFUGEE who fled Sri Lanka after being bashed almost to death two years ago has been killed in a suspected hit and run car accident in Dandenong.Deadly Prophecy From Sri Lankan Journalist
Wednesday January 14, 2009
A dissident's final editorial has been published posthumously. Jonathan Steele reports.Sri Lanka Find Two Willing Warriors In Their Time Of Need
Monday November 19, 2007
HEROES have been thin on the ground for Sri Lanka in recent weeks, but out of the rubble of the Hobart Test emerged a pair of cricketers whose valour brought colour, if not parity, to the series.All Grown Up, Pup Slays Sri Lankans
Saturday November 10, 2007
THE series is just two days old, but Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey might already have dealt the knockout blows to Sri Lanka.No Middle Way For Sri Lanka's Militant Monks
Saturday June 16, 2007
Despite war fatigue, Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority wants the Tamil Tigers tamed, Mian Ridge reports.It's Australia, Sri Lanka . . . Oh, And Pietersen
Sunday April 29, 2007
IT MIGHT have dragged on, but the World Cup has provided some brilliant cricket. I've picked my team of the tournament but it became an exercise - and a tough one at that - in picking which Australian or Sri Lankans to leave out.Ponting Puts Heat On Lanka
Saturday April 28, 2007
READING straight from the successful 2003 blueprint, Australian captain Ricky Ponting has questioned how Sri Lanka's young players, including the punk slinger Lasith Malinga, will handle the pressure of their first World Cup final tonight.Murali Is Not For Turning - Latest Spin From Sri Lanka
Thursday April 5, 2007
JUST when the world's batsmen thought they had a handle on Muthiah Muralidaran's controversial doosra, Sri Lanka's alluring off-spinner is perplexing them with a more subtle range of deliveries at the World Cup.In Bloody And Divided Sri Lanka, Children Become The Fighters And The Victims On Both Sides
Saturday March 17, 2007
The UN says thousands of children are missing in Sri Lanka, abducted by both sides in a ruthless conflict.Sri Lankan Students 'feared Kidnap, Murder'
Monday February 26, 2007
THE 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers whose boat was intercepted last week are mostly young students who fled Sri Lanka in fear that they would be kidnapped or murdered, it has been claimed.