09/30/2011
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Bernama
The Sri Lankan police said on Friday that they had seized over 20,000 copies of a pro-opposition newspaper and had also arrested five people.
09/02/2011
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BBC
Many in Jaffna are in a state of panic and afraid to go out at night due to security forces' behaviour, says an MP.
06/02/2011
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Reuters
* Marxist-led union protests continue * Govt says withdraws pension proposal By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, June 2 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Marxist oppositionand the government traded
04/23/2011
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BBC, BBC Sinhala
A senior leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition says that the challenge by the United Nation's Committee report could only be defeated by concerted efforts of all political parties along with the release of former army commander Sarath Fonseka.
03/14/2011
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The Hindu
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa wants the opposition political parties in the country to emulate the behaviour of the main Indian Opposition parties when national pride was at stake.
03/12/2011
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Xinhua
Sri Lanka's main opposition accused Friday that Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne had misled the parliament by talking about the alleged training camps in India for the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Jayaratne told the parliament earlier that the government received information that at least two training camps existed in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
03/04/2011
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The Island
The implementation of a durable political solution to the ethnic issue was the answer to overcoming international calls for a war crimes probe against Sri Lanka, UNP parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella said yesterday. He told a news conference in Colombo that the UNP was willing to support any form aof devolution that would address the aspirations of all communities. The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime’s confrontationist and childish foreign policy with the West, was detrimental to Sri Lanka’s interests and needs to be reviewed urgently, Kiriella said.
02/27/2011
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Groundviews
On 4 February, Sri Lanka celebrated its 63rd birthday. After nearly three decades of armed conflict, it is now one of Southasia’s calmest and fastest-growing countries. Its social indicators, apart from the northeast zone, remain the best in the region, and its strategic location is inviting investments from both Asian giants, China and India. Its stock markets are booming, its growth rate bouncing at around eight percent, and tourists are back to enjoy sun, sand and sea. Along with big sister India, Lanka is the only other country in the South Asian region with unbroken if rather tattered democracy since independence from the British Raj in 1948, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently congratulated the government of Sri Lanka when it released a Standby Agreement (SBA) loan tranche despite the high ratio of public debt to GDP.
02/25/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka Court of Appeal to hear former Army Commander's writ application (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
02/14/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka opposition party members discuss local government polls with Elections Commissioner (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)