Yasushi Akashi, Japan’s Representative for Peace Building, Rehabilitation and Development in Sri Lanka said here on Saturday, that human rights violations by the Sri Lankan government would not prevent Japan from continuing to give humanitarian and development aid to the people of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka’s cricket chief Jayantha Dharmadasa has been granted bail by the commercial court of Colombo over his alleged role in manipulating share prices.
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Friends of Lanka, a non governmental organisation operating in the Kegalle district has conserved a large number of indigenous food crops threatened with extinction and started commercial cultivation.
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Valista, the Irish software giant specialising in digital commerce solutions is shifting its base to Sri Lanka. Valista General Manager Anura De Alwis said 50% of Valista’s product development operations are scheduled to shift to Sri Lanka this year.
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COLOMBO — Japan will continue assistance to Sri Lanka without interruption despite snags in the search for peace and concerns about human rights in the country, Japan’s special peace envoy Yasushi Akashi said Saturday.
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June 09, Colombo: Japanese peace envoy Yasushi Akashi said he is optimistic for a peaceful solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka despite the raging violence between the Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE.
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June 09, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army overran four LTTE camps in the jungles killing over 30 Tigers during an offensive late Friday and early Saturday in the eastern Batticaloa district, the military said.
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June 09, London: A large cross section of Sri Lankans from all walks of life living in Britain gathered in front of the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster on Friday the 8th June to show their strongest protest at some British MPs who recently formed a group called ”The All Party Parliamentary Group for […]

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarions condemned the eviction of Tamils from Colombo as “one more reprehensible act of discrimination against Tamils by the State of Sri Lanka,” called upon the International Community to “take cognizance of this grave situation facing the Tamil people,” in a press release issued Friday from Colombo.
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Sri Lanka’s cricket chief Jayantha Dharmadasa, seen here in February 2007, was granted 100,000 rupees (910 dollars) bail by the commercial court of Colombo over his alleged role in manipulating share prices.
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