Western, Papua New Guinea News

May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Minister of Public Relations Mervyn Silva came under media attention again as his same party opponent and Chairman of Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha Prasanna Ranaweera was assaulted this morning.

May 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's peace time Army assisting the government's tourism promotion drive has opened a seafood restaurant in the service plaza on the Southern Expressway.

May 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Sinhala Buddhist political party Jathika Hela Urumaya Wednesday revealed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution proposed by them.

While the Coordinating Committee of Sri Lanka's Trade Union Alliance maintained that their token strike against the electricity tariff hike was successful all round the country, the Sri Lankan government said that overall attendance in public sector institutions had, in fact, increased by 3.5 per cent yesterday.

Eight fatalities have been reported so far due to the stormy weather which affected a number of areas in Sri Lanka during the last few days.

May 14, Colombo: The investment promotion agency of Sri Lanka, the Board of Investments , has introduced a long term investment plan with a new vision, Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today at a press briefing.

May 14, Colombo: The stormy weather brought by the tropical cyclone in the southeast Bay of Bengal has claimed three lives and left over 2,800 people affected in Sri Lanka, an official said.

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More than 2,000 persons in Sri Lankais Gampaha, Kandy, Badulla and Matale districts have been affected by heavy rains and subsequent flash floods triggered by low pressure conditions developing in the seas off South India, during the past two days, the Disaster Management Centre said yesterday.

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May 02, Colombo: The United States Bureau of Reclamation , in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management and the World Bank, conducted a training program on dam and water management from April 25 -May 1. The training, held in Thulhiriya, Gampaha District for 69 Sri Lankan engineers and professors from ... (more)

Images have been released of some of the stunning butterflies housed at Sri Lanka's Dimah Conservation Butterfly Garden at Moratuwa.

Apr 24, Colombo: The second phase of the project to rehabilitate the old Dutch-built Hamilton Canal in Sri Lanka's Western Province has commenced.

Apr 24, Colombo: Sri Lanka Navy intercepted and arrested 55 illegal migrants bound for Australia in the early hours of Wednesday in the sea off Negombo in the Western Province.