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TUCS orders Lankan goods off shelves - Deccan Chronicle Deccan Chronicle, 2012-01-27 23:00:04 EST. Special officer RG Sakthi Saravanan issued the order effective immediately after receiving a petition from two members of Boycott Sri Lanka Team... 
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Lanka needs global support on reconciliation process: EU MPs - IBNLive.com IBNLive.com, 2012-01-27 17:04:44 EST. Sri Lanka has faced growing international criticism over its rights record with the report of a special UN panel issued last April...
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EXCLUSIVE-Oman may help Sri Lanka if Iran oil sanctions bite - Reuters Africa Reuters Africa, 2012-01-27 13:22:04 EST. By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Oman may sell oil to Sri Lanka in the event of a crisis, which the island nation is racing to avert with US sanctions on Iranian crude threatening its primary refining supply, Sri Lankan officials told ...
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UN role for Sri Lanka ex-army General Shavendra Silva - BBC News BBC News, 2012-01-27 15:22:14 EST. By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo One of Sri Lanka's most controversial diplomats, an ex-army commander, has got a senior post advising the UN secretary general, the government says...
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Sri Lanka to seek China's support for UN World Youth Conference - Xinhua Xinhua, 2012-01-27 08:38:30 EST. 26 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka is seeking the support of China and the Group of 77 to adopt UN General Assembly resolution to host United Nations World Youth Conference in 2014, a government spokesman said on Thursday...
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HSBC to Tap Sri Lanka Corporate Demand for Global Debt Sales - BusinessWeek BusinessWeek, 2012-01-27 09:51:04 EST. The lender is targeting the country's financial firms and the tourism industry with overseas dollar bonds and syndications, according to Nick Nicolaou, who heads HSBC's Sri Lanka operations...
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Sri Lanka's police horses stand the test of time - Xinhua Xinhua, 2012-01-27 04:24:53 EST. 27 (Xinhua) -- A tall chestnut gelding called Alex, gazes majestically at the traffic as it flows past the busy capital roads in Sri Lanka, a member of the Police Mounted Division it is a symbol of a colonial tradition that has survived the test of ...
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SLC attempts damage control after stinging criticism The Hindu, 2012-01-27 10:42:28 EST. Sri Lanka Cricket attempted some damage control late on Friday, stung by criticism over the manner in which it has handled the issue of changing its coach, and its revolving door policy on Captain...
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Sri Lanka stocks extend rally on banks, hotels - Reuters Reuters, 2012-01-27 12:57:41 EST. 28 * Foreign investor net sellers * Rupee flat on light trade; cbank pumps $6 mln to defend COLOMBO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's share market extended its rally with a more than 2 percent gain on Friday as investors snapped up risky assets after ...
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Sri Lanka pays homage - The West Australian The West Australian, 2012-01-27 06:14:55 EST. Apart from one break of four years, this religious/cultural festival (a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism), and also a rain festival, has been repeated every year in Sri Lanka since 312AD...
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Sri Lanka not complacent about India in tri-series - The Hindu The Hindu, 2012-01-27 10:41:05 EST. Speaking just ahead of the team's departure to Australia, where Sri Lanka will join India and Australia for a triangular one day series, he recalled that in the last India – Sri Lanka encounter in the finals of the last ODI World Cup, Sri Lanka had ...
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Sri Lanka chief defends Marsh sacking - Times of India Times of India, 2012-01-27 15:56:10 EST. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's cricket chief on Friday defended the sacking of Australian coach Geoff Marsh and the selection of a new team captain, saying the changes would help usher in a new era of "cricketing excellence"...
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That by just visiting this page, you are helping a student in rural Sri Lanka
gain education?
By Carlo Fonseka, may 13.
At one point in your very perceptive editorial of 10 May titled "Pay them more; make them work harder" you refer to President Mahinda Rajapaksha's appeal to expatriate Sri Lankan experts including academics to return and help develop the country. Then you ask rhetorically: "But who will want to answer his call, return home and settle for a pittance?" Please give me a little space to tell The Island the story of two such persons - Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole and his wife Dr. Dushyanthi Hoole, who answered the President's call and the consequent unhappiness they have had to endure.
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