11/26/2010
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The latest victim of the continuing rain in Sri Lanka was the ongoing cricket match. At the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Friday, not one ball was bowled as the fourth day in the second test between Sri Lanka and the West Indies was completely washed out.
11/20/2010
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Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa took oaths for his second six-year term Friday as the first president to serve without the threat of war. A day after celebrating his 65th birthday, Rajapaksa was sworn in before Chief Justice Asoka De Silva in an outdoor ceremony on the steps of the old Parliament building facing the Indian Ocean.
08/31/2010
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Sri Lankan and China are further strengthening their bilateral relations with a number of new agreements that will be signed between officials of the two countries in the next few days.
08/31/2010
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The Japanese government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are providing a grant of $2.5 million for a skills-training project for approximately 2,500 internally displaced persons in northern Sri Lanka. The program will also include a cash-for-work option to develop infrastructure by rebuilding roads and irrigation canals.
07/30/2010
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The United Kingdom yesterday removed its travel restriction to several northern war-affected districts in Sri Lanka.
07/28/2010
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A 60-year-old activist of Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) died Tuesday morning after setting himself on fire near the party headquarters.