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24 min ago | Stranger in Paradise

Just when you thought it was safe to send your children to Norway

"Green is the new Black" trumpeted the ridiculous Singapore Straits Times recently, just as uptight architects across the region started cladding their buildings' walls with ground covers.

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Related Topix: Asia Travel, Sri Lanka Travel, Travel, World News, Home Gardening, Home, Indonesia

4 hrs ago | Colombo Page

Sri Lankan minister to introduce hotline for the public to make complaints

May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Public Relations and Public Affairs Minister Mervyn Silva said he has decided to introduce a hotline for the people to lodge complaints and his Ministry would take steps to set up the hotline for public complaints.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News

5 hrs ago | Scoop

Sri Lanka: Ganeshan Nimalaruban Case

"When the prison is under siege do you want the prisons commissioner have to read to them the Geneva Conventions?" The AG submitted a confidential report to the Court and Counsel Petitioner requested a copy to be issued to him.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Papua New Guinea,

Wed May 22, 2013

Colombo Page

India launches housing project in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province

May 22, Batticaloa: India launched its housing project to construct houses for the resettled families in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka Wednesday, the High Commission of India said in a statement today.

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Colombo Page

Sri Lankan President pays homage to Dalada Maligawa, releases milk cows destined for slaughter

May 22, Kandy: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, participating in the Vesak Week activities, paid homage to the sacred Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy today and received blessings from the Chief Prelate of Asgiriya Chapter, Most Venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkhita Maha Nayake thera.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Lottery

Colombo Page

Sri Lanka Buddhist party reveals its constitutional amendment

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

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Papua New Guinea,

Rediff.com

A bloodied childhood in war-torn Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Tamil poet and journalist Theepachelvan Pratheepan shares the experiences of his petrified childhood days spent in the war-torn island nation with Rediff.com 's Shobha Warrier.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News

People's Daily Online

Sri Lanka to use summit to showcase developments

The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday said that it will use a key Commonwealth summit in November to showcase the post-war developments in the country.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Prince Charles

TamilNet Newswire

Sri Lanka: Occupying STF seizes 600 acres of farmland in Poththuvil

The paddy fields are located east of Naavilaa'ru at Poovarasadith-thoaddam in Poththuvil DS division.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Travel, Asia Travel, Sri Lanka Travel

BBC News

Sri Lanka leader's son in rugby row

Sri Lanka's rugby authorities are investigating President Mahinda Rajapaksa's rugby-playing son after claims that he assaulted a referee.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Mahinda Rajapaksa

The Straits Times

Police bust human smuggling ring in Britain, France: Europol

Europol on Wednesday said 18 people, mostly Sri Lankans, were arrested in joint police raids in Britain and France on suspicion of being part of a human trafficking ring that smuggled South Asian immigrants into Britain.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News

Tue May 21, 2013

SF Weekly

1601 Bar & Kitchen: S.F's First Sri Lankan Restaurant Focuses on Small Plates

The opening of San Francisco's first Sri Lankan restaurant sent a delicious shiver of anticipation down the spines of those who get excited about such things.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, World News, Asia

Colombo Page

Sri Lanka generally respects religious freedom - US report

May 21, Colombo: Sri Lankan government generally respected religious freedom last year although in some instances, local authorities were not effective in responding to attacks on members of minority religious groups, the United States said in a report.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Travel, Asia Travel, Sri Lanka Travel, Colombo, Sri Lanka Travel

Colombo Page

Sri Lanka's unions and opposition vow further agitations against electricity rate increase

May 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka's trade unions and opposition political parties announced that more agitations are ahead against the increase of the power tariff as the strike launched Tuesday to send a message to the government failed to make any impact.

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Related Topix: World News

Colombo Page

Sri Lanka unions say strike a success, government differs

May 21, Colombo: The Coordinating Committee for a Joint Trade Union Alliance of Sri Lanka says today's token strike launched to protest the increase in the electricity tariffs is a success while the government says there was no effect in the public sector.

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The New Zealand Herald

Sri Lanka: Lending a helping hand

The international arrivals area in Sri Lanka's major airport has two kinds of shop: the usual duty-free perfume and alcohol stores, and shop after shop stuffed with second-hand home appliances.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Life, Food, English Cuisine

India Gazette

Take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu Jayalalithaa tells PM

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu and surrounding areas from Sri Lanka.

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Asia News Network

BALI/Indonesia: Sri Lankan tour operators explore Bali with eye on joint ventures

With the picturesque Bali Island in Indonesia, launching a massive tourism promotion, Sri Lankan tour operators were exploring the hitherto largely unexplored market, with a focus on joint ventures.

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Asia News Network

COLOMBO: Protesting Sri Lankan workers threaten to cripple all sectors; govt unfazed

Sri Lanka's trade union alliance which has organised today's token strike against electricity tariff hike is confident of crippling the public, semi-government and private sectors.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Nursing, Medicine

Mon May 20, 2013

Times of Oman

A new deal for fragile states

Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.

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Related Topix: Asia, Tsunami, Natural Disasters, Techno, The New Deal, Sudan, Africa