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Reuters: Tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting protesters called on Saturday for a disputed parliamentary election to be rerun and an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule, increasing pressure on the Russian leader as he tries to win back the presidency. The protesters shouted “Russia
- Protesters chant for a “Russia without Putin” (Category: Business)
- Thousands of Russians challenge Putin’s election win (Category: Business)
- Russia Davos party has unusual opposition flavour (Category: Business)
- Tearful Putin wins back Russian presidency (Category: Business)
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69. Kim’s death 17 years after he inherited power from his father was announced today by the state television from the North Korean capital,Pyongyang. ...
- North Korea confirms mystery woman is leader’s wife (Category: Business)
- Secure despite rocket fiasco, N. Korea’s Kim lauds military (Category: Business)
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead, son hailed as heir (Category: Business)
- Kim to reform North Korean economy after purge: source (Category: Business)
to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.The leade...
- Mystery of Kim Jong-il's son (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- N Korea's Kim reviews agenda for congress in early January (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- North Korea ends party meeting with calls for nuclear might (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- North Korea ends party meeting with calls for nuclear might (Category: USA, South Dakota)
U.S. presidential election all about the economy First bin Laden, now Iraq Obama shows he can answer the “3 a.m. call” WASHINGTON (Reuters): President Barack Obama delivered on another foreign policy promise on Friday with plans to pull the last U.S. troops from Iraq. But in a re-election campaign all about the weak U.S. economy, ...
- Obama’s 2013 budget a campaign call to arms (Category: Business)
- US will ‘do what we must’ on Iran, UN’s Ban opposes threats (Category: Business)
- Obama says it’s clear US economy ‘not doing fine’ (Category: Business)
- Obama takes campaign to Latin America, slams Romney (Category: Business)
Reuters: Arab foreign ministers stopped short of suspending Syria from their regional organisation on Sunday over its military crackdown on dissent, instead urging the government and opposition to negotiate an end to the violence. “We will call all of the parties of the opposition and government to hold a dialogue within 15 days,” the League’s ...
- UN assembly adopts resolution condemning Syria (Category: Business)
- Arabs approve sweeping sanctions on Syria (Category: Business)
- Russia vetoes UN resolution against Syria (Category: Business)
- UN envoy Brahimi says Syria mission ‘nearly impossible’ (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Adidas will invest more in toning shoes, confident that customers will continue to buy even after the U.S consumer watchdog raised doubts over their health benefits, the German group’s chief executive said this week. “We haven’t seen a slump in sales,” Herbert Hainer told journalists in Moscow. Adidas unit Reebok last month agreed to ...
- adidas felicitates Brand Ambassador Lasith Malinga on hat trick feat (Category: Business)
- Adidas eyes basketball boost after NBA lockout ends (Category: Business)
- Reebok India accuses former top execs of $157 m fraud (Category: Business)
- Predator Lethal Zones unleashed by adidas (Category: Business)
Mismanagement in sports administrationThe role of oligarchs in sports administration, national, regional and international, is not solely a South Asian phenomenon, it is a worldwide cancer. Anyone who has worked in the sports sector in South Asia would have come up against this debilitating factor. It is all pervasive and endemic. Once at a South ...
- CWG bid money not wasted: Cabraal (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka hosting CWG would inspire 45 other nations – President (Category: Business)
- Gold Coast wins CWG 2018 bid (Category: Breaking News)
- A month to go for vote, Govt. says momentum building on Hambantota’s 2018 CWG bid (Category: Business)
To say that the Wallabies had an off day against the Irish would be an injustice to the Irish. From the outset the Irish had a game plan and that was to deny the Aussie backs good clean ball. They executed this plan to perfection and Man of the Match Healy, ably assisted by the ...
- Ronaldo leads Portugal to Euros, Irish celebrate (Category: Business)
- Rankings add extra twist to knockout stages (Category: Business)
- Air France-KLM sees tough 2012 as fuel costs soar (Category: Business)
- No shocks as Italy, Spain come through (Category: Business)
Establishing a landmark in Sri Lanka’s aviation history, SriLankan Airlines’ makes its maiden flight to the historic city of Moscow, commencing a twice-weekly scheduled service between Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on 17 September 2011. Religious observances by dignitaries of the four religions in Sri Lanka will invoke bl...
- SriLankan Airlines launches flights to Moscow (Category: Business)
- Warm welcome for Russian group (Category: Business)
- SriLankan Airlines recommences services to Zurich (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's national carrier begins flights to Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
The Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) has launched a new campaign with a budget of 19 million euros ($26.7 million) designed to boost international tourism to Cyprus this year. According to Alecos Orountiotis, CTO chairman, the “Cyprus in Your Heart” campaign will promote Cyprus’ history and culture, friendliness and hospitality, its mix of modern and contemporary ...
- Increased tourism numbers expected (Category: Western Australia)
- 56 Cyprus beaches win top eco-label (Category: Business)
- Duluth tourism expected to improve but not fully rebound in 2021 (Category: USA, Minnesota)
- Duluth tourism expected to improve but not fully rebound in 2021 (Category: USA, Minnesota)
Reuters: England piled more misery on India with a thrilling six-wicket victory in a one-off Twenty20 match at Old Trafford on Wednesday. After losing the test series 4-0, India started brightly in the shortest version of the game and racked up 165 all out, only to see England reach their target with three balls to ...
- Muammar Gaddafi dead of wounds following capture - Reuters (Category: Breaking News)
- “Zero hour” for Gaddafi as besieged Tripoli rises up (Category: Business)
- Gaddafi son rallies loyalists for Tripoli fightback (Category: Business)
- Gaddafi lessons for brand building (Category: Business)
Reuters: Novak Djokovic faces the daunting prospect of possibly having to beat Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal to win the U.S. Open for the first time and end the year as the world number one. The Serbian has already won this season's Australian Open and Wimbledon titles and is the overwhelming favourite to win the ...
- Djokovic gets top seed for U.S. Open (Category: Business)
- Dominant Djokovic claims maiden U.S. Open (Category: Business)
- Smiling Djokovic happy to avoid Murray in US Open draw (Category: Business)
- Murray has earned ‘Big Four’ status, says Djokovic (Category: Business)
A son of Muammar Gaddafi, previously reported captured, made a surprise appearance with jubilant supporters in Tripoli overnight, urging loyalists to fight off rebels who say they control most of the Libyan capital. Saif al-Islam, seen as his father’s chosen successor, visited the Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying to declare that the government ...
- “Zero hour” for Gaddafi as besieged Tripoli rises up (Category: Business)
- Price on Gaddafi’s head as rebels plan for future (Category: Business)
- All Sri Lankan workers return from Libya (Category: Business)
- Muammar Gaddafi dead of wounds following capture - Reuters (Category: Breaking News)
By S. V. Kirubaharan - in France Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” — Julius Henry, Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star (1890-1977). When life is smooth and everything goes in the right direction, normal civilians can become President, Prime Minister ...
- Ex-IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn, wife separate (Category: Business)
- WORLD ROUNDUP – By Dinouk Colombage (Category: Breaking News)
- Euro zone crisis reaches France, turns existential (Category: Business)
- French President’s partner dubbed the new Iron Lady (Category: Business)
Reuters: A Russian state company plans to start mass production next year of cheap plastic-based tablet computers for school students which it says will rival Apple Inc’s iPad. Anatoly Chubais, an architect of Russian market reform and a head of technology conglomerate Rosnano, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the new computer would cost about $420 ...
- Tablet Wars (Category: Business)
- Tablet Rivalry (Category: Business)
- Belated Challenge (Category: Business)
- Google to debut new Android tablet to rival Apple iPad (Category: Business)
A high level delegation from Russian oil and natural gas giant Gazprom led by its Director General Gulev Valeriy this week met Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa at his office in order to discuss investment opportunities, especially in the oil exploration in the Mannar and Cauvery Basin, natural gas market as well as tourism ...
- Government in the dark on extent and volume of Mannar Basin gas deposits (Category: Business)
- Another Indian firm to explore oil in Mannar Basin (Category: Business)
- Russia’s oil giant Gazprom to send technical team to explore Mannar basin (Category: Business)
- Govt. not aware of extent of gas deposit (Category: Breaking News)
By an Independent Analyst The State Assembly of Tamil Nadu (TN) passed a resolution on 8 June 2011, requesting the Indian Central Government to push the international community against Sri Lanka towards imposition of ‘economic sanctions’. The resolution at the TN assembly moved by Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister passed unanimously with the ruling party ...
- TN moves resolution to implead itself in Katchatheevu case (Category: Breaking News)
- TN seeks economic sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- TN group violently opposes Lions Flag (Category: Breaking News)
By Dushy Ranetunge in London The Sinhalese and Tamil Diaspora periodically launch protests in their host countries galvanised by events that affect their particular tribe. Often they are financed, organised or encouraged by their political formations. The ones perceived as “Tamil” protests are often organised/encouraged by the LTTE or organisations which are affiliated/sympathetic to the Tamil ...
- Are Tamils waving LTTE flags "terrorists"? (Category: Breaking News)
- Parallel world’s short circuit in Oxford (Category: Breaking News)
- The defeat of the LTTE is being systematically transformed as the defeat of the Tamil and Muslim... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
A true blue SLFPer, Abalang Ruhunuputra, was resting his weary limbs and shredded vocal chords after the exhaustive march from Campbell Place to the Town Hall lawns on Sunday when he received an invigourating shot of adrenaline from the TV screen. Barack Obama himself delivered a personal message: American commandos had raided Osama bin Laden’s ...
- Chronicles Of The Panel Of Experts (Category: Breaking News)
- Ban Ki-moon in Sri Lanka next week as GGGI President (Category: Breaking News)
- With Friends Like This Do We Need…? (Category: Breaking News)
- Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
A number countries in the west including the US have launched a massive attack on Libya with an eye on its oil resource. Libyan leader Col. Gaddafi has said that arms depots will be opened for the people to defend their country. International reports say that a series of missile attacks were directed towards the ...
The Director of the London School of Economics has stepped down over his association with the Libyan regime. Sri Lanka’s President, however, has no problem associating with repressive leaders from Libya, Iran, Burma, Russia and China. In the days of hypocritical realpolitik this may have made sense
- Ready to make any sacrifice for the people – Prime Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa goes back to China (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankans gave up joy for Indians: MR (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President assures equal benefits for North and South (Category: Breaking News)
By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...
- India’s Chinese Bogeymen (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China and India playing the great game in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- For India, Sri Lanka is not indispensable, but for Sri Lanka, India is indispensable (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka “The contest is never over, the field never quite ours.”- Dave Robicheaux in James Lee Burke, ‘The Tin Roof Blowdown’ (2007) Is it only me, or is not sad that there is no review in the Sri Lankan public space, of the first decade of the 21st century and the new millennium? Should we not be looking back at the road that has been travelled by the world, by our co...
- International investor confidence on Sri Lanka improving Minister Amunugama (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...
- Asia economy: Consumers to the rescue? (Category: Business)
- Economic power shifting to Asia from the West? (Category: Business)
- No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe has said that barren land will be given to unemployed youth to cultivate tea. The Minister stressed that the Government hopes to produce quality tea through the Tea Shakthi Programme. He said that factories were setup to set an example to the private sector. The Tea Shakthi programme was launched to maintain ...
- Cricket-Swann strikes twice to peg back Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket-Sri Lanka 197 v Pakistan 174-1 - 1st test, tea (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka 197 v Pakistan 174-1 - 1st test, tea (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket-Sri Lanka v South Africa scoreboard (Category: Breaking News)
Thus spake Barak Hussein Obama at the Big Apple gathering: “In times of economic unease there can be an anxiety about human rights.” “Today, as in the past times of economic downturn, some place human rights aside for the promise of short term stability or the false notion that economic growth can come at the ...
- US clears Sri Lanka, 6 others from Iran oil sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- US clears Sri Lanka from Iran oil sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- Obama discusses economy at Charlotte Celgard plant (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms (Category: Business)
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty ...
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
- The Sinhalese are content with an unjust peace: But are Tamils? (Category: Breaking News)
- July 1983 Pogrom: The Black Week That Devastatingly Impacted Sri Lanka Forever (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
By Rajan Philips On May 17 in Tehran, the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil announced that they had reached a deal on exchanging uranium fuel for use in the Tehran Research Reactor....
- Iran to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear deal (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Can Tehran Non Aligned Summit End Iran’s International Isolation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran loads fuel rods into 1st nuclear power plant (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit as China slams new sanctions (Category: Business)
MIA is the most provocative pop star of her age. Here, the rapper discusses her new multifaceted album, the absence of her father during childhood and having the video to her latest song, in which a child is 'murdered', censored...
- Maya "MIA" Arulpragasam: An outspoken advocate of Tamil peoples' rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Militant rebel voice Maya 'MIA' Arulpragasam: Fusion of style, music and controversy (Category: Breaking News)
- Dad caught on video beating daughter 'needs help' (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Popular international DJ Edward Maya teams up with Sri Lankan star (Category: Breaking News)
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