Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Have you ever seen an animal running on water??

It requires a speed of 85 km per hour with a foot placing of 1 inch to walk on water.

Sad part was that Velu Anna tried it and ended up with an axe in his nut!

Ten-year-old Priyanthi is yet another war displaced child in a relief camp in Vavuniya, but she is special because she had scored 162 at the recently-held Grade Five Scholarship Examination -- the highest marks among all children in Sri Lanka`s northern Vanni area formerly dominated by Tamil Tiger rebels.

Some months back, Priyanthi`s parents carrying her and her younger brother ran from one place to another to save their lives. As the fighting between the Sri Lankan military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) getting worse, they were compelled to vacate their house in Kilinochchi, the capital of the LTTE which was finally defeated by the troops in May.

Wed, 2009-11-18 18:40 editor

Chennai, 18 November, (Asiantribune.com):

The LTTE had dug its own grave through a series of mistakes starting with the killing of fellow Tamils, moderates and militants alike, and climaxing in indirectly helping Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa to win the Nov 2005 presidential election by asking the Tamils to boycott the polls, resulting in the defeat of peacenik and UNP rival Ranil Wickremasinghe, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said.

NEW DELHI:

India is still perceived to be one of the most corrupt countries by the transparency international in its annual corruption perceptions.


India has been ranked 84th in the list of 180 countries in terms of public-sector corruption, which is perceived to be highly corrupt.

While releasing the list of naming and shaming the world`s most corrupt countries, the international watchdog has for the first time recommended that tax havens like Switzerland and Liechtenstein should do away with the secrecy in banking laws.

Indian youth behind threat mail to SL team

The email threat to Sri Lankan team which sent the city police in a tizzy on Saturday has turned out to be the handiwork of a youth.

According to the city crime branch officials who are investigating the case, the email was sent by Ashok Karsh, who lives in Dabra, 200 km away from Raipur, a town located in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhatisgarh.

A woman was having a daytime affair while her husband was at work.

One rainy day she was in bed with her boyfriend when, to her horror, she
heard her husband`s car pull into the driveway.


`Oh my God - Hurry! Grab your clothes and jump out the window. My husband`s home early!`

I can`t jump out the window. It`s raining out there!`

If my husband catches us in here, he`ll kill us both!` she replied.


He`s got a hot temper and a gun, so the rain is the least of your problems!`

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) --

Australia and Sri Lanka signed a legal cooperation agreement to fight people smuggling amid Opposition pressure on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to tighten border security.

The memorandum of understanding will make it easier to investigate and prosecute smugglers while legal assistance and extradition measures will be strengthened, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in a statement, without detailing specific steps.

A one-time member of a Tamil gang in Canadanow seeking asylum in Australiawill be subject to rigorous security checks to qualify for refugee status, Immigration Minister Chris Evans says.

The man, known as Alex, had been acting as a spokesman for a boatload of Tamil asylum seekers, who have spent four weeks moored in the Javanese port city of Merak.
Alex has admitted he once was a member of a violent Tamil gang in Canada and was jailed for making death threats.

A dad walks into a market with his young son.
The kid is holding a Rupee coin.

Suddenly, the boy starts choking and gasping for breath.
The dad realizes the boy has swallowed the coin and starts panicking,shouting for help.

A well dressed, attractive, but serious looking woman in a
blue business suit is sitting at a Tea stall in the market reading her newspaper and sipping　 a cup of Tea.

At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her Tea cup down
on the saucer, neatly folds the newspaper, places it on the

Sri Lanka snubbed moves by LTTE remnants to hold a `poll` in April next year to elect members to its so-called transitional Government, saying this was another futile attempt to revive the terror organisation.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told the Sunday Observer that their declared government-in-exile was a myth and so is the move to hold a poll as announced on Thursday by the US based LTTE proxy Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran. If they try to perpetuate LTTE terrorism in the guise of various other front movements, this will also be countered by us, he said commenting on Rudrakumaran`s claim. The LTTE is banned in countries including the US where Rudrakumaran who is said to have taken over the diaspora activities of the LTTE, is based.

SALUTE THE PATRIOTIC AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE. WELL SAID SIR !!!

Really true........................sorry for the hard language at the bottom
Tamils, Sinhalese, British and Yankees

Tamils

How many Tamils are employed in southern Sri Lankan companies? (See the number of high caliber Tamils in Sri Lankan banking sector, see hotel trade, see film trade, see other industries)
Do they experience any hardship professionally due to ethnicity? If so, how come they hold such high positions?

Three persons including two Sri Lankans, a male and a female were beheaded yesterday after a Saudi Arabial court rejected their appeals over the killing of an elderly female at Jeddah in 2006, said Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) chairman Kingsley Ranawaka.

The two Sri Lankans and an Indian were sentenced to death while the other five in the group of seven were sentenced to five years in prison by a Saudi Arabian court for strangling to death an elderly female at her home in Jeddah and robbing her jewellery.

Alavi MoulanaHold the Presidential election first instead of the Parliamentary general elections. This was resolved unanimously.

At the seventh National Convention of the SLFP oriented Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya held at the Temple Trees yesterday, it was unanimously resolved to recommend holding first the Presidential election.

They have also urged that the Parliamentary General Election should follow, after holding the presidential election.

This song was written and sung by the singer after his first visit to Okinawa.The title `Shima Uta` means Island Song.
Okinawan songs are more like traditional sons of Sri Lanka
and South India.It`s a tropical Island like Sri Lanka and I hear that there are vegetables like what we have in Sri Lanka including
Manioc.

I hope you like this songs and maybe I can post more as I love
songs from Okinawa.

SINGAPORE, Nov 3, 2009 (AFP) -

A Singaporean opposition party member will be extradited to the United States and tried for allegedly trying to supply arms to Sri Lanka`s defeated Tamil Tiger rebels, officials here said Tuesday.

Businessman Balldev Naidu, 47, is facing six charges including conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation and possession of a firearm in 2006, a court official told AFP.