News: Sri Lanka

We have started to collect the most important news related to Sri Lanka in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Sri Lanka: news

Sri Lanka blocks BBC travel north

Thursday, November 11th 2010, 1:16
related places: Jaffna

The Sri Lankan government again blocks BBC News from travelling to the northern city of Jaffna to attend public hearings of a commission looking into the civil war.
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Sri Lanka publishes 'porn faces'

Tuesday, November 9th 2010, 12:53

Sri Lankan media publish the faces of dozens of people accused of appearing in pornographic films in violation of anti-obscenity laws.
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Australia finally end losing run

Sunday, November 7th 2010, 8:37
related countries: Australia

Australia end a seven-match losing streak as they beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final one-day international.
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Sri Lanka launches anti-porn push

Friday, November 5th 2010, 13:23

A Sri Lankan court today allows police to publish photographs of porn actors in the media in an effort to break up a porn ring.
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Australia crash to seventh defeat

Friday, November 5th 2010, 12:33
related countries: Australia

Sri Lanka celebrate a maiden series win down under as Australia lose the second one-day international, their seventh defeat in succession.
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Sri Lanka to build park for lovers

Thursday, November 4th 2010, 11:42

The Sri Lankan government says it will construct a park for romantic couples who want freedom to associate without being victimised by police.
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Sri Lanka comeback stuns Aussies

Wednesday, November 3rd 2010, 11:16
related countries: Australia

A brilliant ninth-wicket partnership between Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga takes Sri Lanka from the brink of defeat to a one-wicket victory against Australia.
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Australia suffer Twenty20 defeat

Sunday, October 31st 2010, 14:03
related countries: Australia
related places: Perth

Australia are beaten by seven wickets with 21 balls remaining in their Twenty20 international with Sri Lanka in Perth.
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S Lanka president in maid appeal

Tuesday, October 26th 2010, 4:41
related countries: Saudi Arabia

Sri Lanka's president is to appeal to Saudi Arabia's king to revoke the death sentence on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing a baby in her care.
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Sri Lankan Muslims returning home

Sunday, October 24th 2010, 13:39

In October 1990, the Tamil Tigers expelled the Muslim minority from north Sri Lanka - and 20 years on, some are making the journey back again.
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Exiles' return

Saturday, October 23rd 2010, 23:24

Muslim families go home to northern Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka urged to return gold

Friday, October 22nd 2010, 5:20

A Sri Lankan politician demands the government return gold and jewels seized during the final stages of the war against Tamil Tiger rebels last year.
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Justice denied

Tuesday, October 19th 2010, 17:16

Murdered Sri Lankan journalist's family seek answers
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S Lanka rejects 'atrocity' photos

Tuesday, October 19th 2010, 13:59

Sri Lanka's foreign minister casts doubt on newly released photos that are said to show a massacre of Tamils during the country's civil war.
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Fears for Sri Lanka temple boys

Friday, October 15th 2010, 15:15

Child rights activists in Sri Lanka criticise a plan to ordain 2,600 boys as Buddhist monks, saying they are too young and could be abused.
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Groups snub Sri Lanka war inquiry

Thursday, October 14th 2010, 11:51

International human rights groups refuse to appear before an inquiry into the end of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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Saudis may stop Sri Lanka workers

Monday, October 11th 2010, 17:59
related countries: Saudi Arabia

One of the main recruitment organisations in Saudi Arabia calls for a suspension in the hiring of thousands of workers from Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka senior Tigers 'missing'

Sunday, October 10th 2010, 17:08

Two prominent Tamil Tiger leaders in Sri Lanka are missing after arrest by the army, their wives have told a presidential commission.
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Sri Lanka brews record cup of tea

Saturday, October 9th 2010, 16:40

One of the world's leading tea-producing nations, Sri Lanka, becomes the scene for a new world record - the largest cup of tea.
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Sri Lanka jail term is confirmed

Thursday, September 30th 2010, 6:17

Sri Lanka's president endorses the 30-month jail term of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, the president's office tells the BBC.
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Fears over Sri Lanka nuclear plan

Wednesday, September 29th 2010, 12:13

Environmentalists in Sri Lanka express concern over government plans to build a nuclear power plant by 2025.
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Colombo rebel treatment 'illegal'

Monday, September 27th 2010, 11:00

The International Commission of Jurists says Sri Lanka has failed to adhere to international law in detaining suspected Tamil Tigers.
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Sri Lanka Fonseka accused freed

Friday, September 24th 2010, 12:22

A Sri Lankan court releases four suspects arrested on charges of conspiring with former army chief Sarath Fonseka to overthrow the government.
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Rethink war's rules, says S Lanka

Friday, September 24th 2010, 10:44

Sri Lanka's president calls for a rethink on international rules governing the conduct of war, in an address to the UN.
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S Lanka police kill third suspect

Wednesday, September 22nd 2010, 15:21

Sri Lankan police shoot dead a suspected underworld figure - in the third such killing this month.
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Emotional return

Wednesday, September 22nd 2010, 9:39

A Sri Lanka widow's journey back to her troubled homeland
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S Lanka panel 'missing' evidence

Monday, September 20th 2010, 14:50

People in north Sri Lanka have tell a war inquiry that family members who served with the Tamil Tigers disappeared after surrendering.
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Sri Lanka bans BBC from hearings

Saturday, September 18th 2010, 2:58

Sri Lanka's defence ministry blocks the BBC from reporting on public hearings in former rebel-held territory.
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Sri Lanka ex-army chief 'guilty'

Friday, September 17th 2010, 13:09

A Sri Lankan military court convicts former army chief Sarath Fonseka of corruption, his lawyer says.
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Sri Lanka lowers blast death toll

Friday, September 17th 2010, 11:25

Officials in Sri Lanka say 25 people, not the 60 earlier stated, were killed in an accidental explosion at a police station.
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Tiger speaks out on Sri Lanka war

Wednesday, September 15th 2010, 16:37

A former spokesman for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels says the decades-long war between them and the state was a waste of people's lives.
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Sri Lanka bans Economist edition

Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 11:35

The Sri Lankan authorities impound the latest copy of the Economist after the magazine carries an opinion piece critical of last week's constitutional changes.
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S Lanka 'wrong' to bar war media

Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 8:43

A Sri Lankan panel investigating the end of the country's civil war is told the authorities were wrong to exclude media from the conflict zone.
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Sri Lankan 'generosity' is hailed

Monday, September 13th 2010, 13:37

The Sri Lankan president hails the results of the World Giving Index which shows his country to be the eighth most 'generous' in the world.
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Sri Lanka leader gets sweeping powers

Wednesday, September 8th 2010, 15:16

Sri Lankan MPs overwhelmingly approve proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms.
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S Lanka panel lost in translation

Friday, September 3rd 2010, 16:23

A key witness at the commission set up to examine the last years of Sri Lanka's civil war complains his words were not properly translated.
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Nails removed from 'abused' maid

Friday, August 27th 2010, 10:18
related countries: Saudi Arabia

Doctors remove 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.
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'Tortured' maid to have surgery

Thursday, August 26th 2010, 12:10
related countries: Saudi Arabia

A Sri Lankan housemaid who accused her former employers in Saudi Arabia of implanting nails in her body is to undergo surgery, her doctors say.
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Canada continues to detain Tamils

Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 3:57
related countries: Canada

Hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who arrived in Canada aboard a cargo ship 11 days ago are kept in jail.
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Sri Lanka set for IMF instalment

Monday, August 23rd 2010, 19:03

The International Monetary Fund indicates it will release the next tranche of a multi-billion pound loan to Sri Lanka.
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Fonseka 'expects jail sentence'

Thursday, August 19th 2010, 23:06

Former Sri Lankan armed forces chief Sarath Fonseka says he expects a jail sentence from a military court trying him on charges of corruption.
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Key evidence at Sri Lanka panel

Tuesday, August 17th 2010, 16:48

The Sri Lankan defence secretary says that he believes more than 6,000 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in the final stages of the war.
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Sri Lanka wildlife vets on strike

Tuesday, August 17th 2010, 4:36

Sri Lanka's wildlife veterinary surgeons are on strike in protest at what they say is the government's failure to manage a serious conflict between wild elephants and humans.
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Sehwag sparkles in India victory

Monday, August 16th 2010, 16:27
related countries: India
related places: Dambulla

Virender Sehwag hits an unbeaten 99 as India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the triangular series in Dambulla.
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