02/06/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa left on Saturday for Moscow, where he will sign a $300 million (192 million pound) loan to buy military equipment from Russia, despite an end to his country's quarter-century civil war.
02/04/2010
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Reuters
KANDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's newly re-elected president vowed on Thursday to regain the progress lost in a quarter-century war with the Tamil Tigers separatists by boosting the country's economy and unifying its people.
02/03/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares .CSE fell 0.31 percent on Wednesday from a record high, as concerns over continuous foreign selling led traders to book profits after a six-session rise. The All-Share Price Index .CSE of the Colombo Stock Exchange closed 11.33 points weaker at 3697.80 points. It hit a new all-time high of 3735.86 on Tuesday, .
01/26/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's top opposition candidate said troops had surrounded his hotel on Wednesday, after polling in Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election ended with the revelation that he was not a registered voter.
01/26/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's top opposition candidate said troops had surrounded his hotel on Wednesday, after polling in Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election ended with the revelation that he was not a registered voter.
01/07/2010
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Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has turned down a request from Sri Lanka to send observers to monitor the country's presidential election later this month because of lack of time, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.
12/14/2009
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Reuters
Following the defeat of Tamil
Tiger rebels this year, the political risk focus for Sri Lanka
has shifted to presidential polls on Jan. 26 and parliamentary
polls expected to follow by April.
Following is a summary of key risks to watch in Sri Lanka.
12/10/2009
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Reuters
Cairn Lanka, a fully owned subsidiary of Cairn India (CAIL.BO), said on Thursday it had started a $100 million seismic survey off Sri Lanka's northwestern coast to explore for crude oil.