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Hotels Return to Sri Lanka
Saturday, 2 June 2012 - 9:10 AM SL Time
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The Hong Kong-based company recently broke ground for a 661-room tower near the storied seafront Galle Face Green in the capital. Expected to open 2015.
Sheraton Colombo: Starwood Hotels will make its debut with this 306-room hotel opposite Galle Face Green. Slated to open October 2013.
M venpick Colombo: The Swiss company`s entr e will be a 180-room downtown hotel. Target opening date is the middle of 2013.
Jetwing Colombo: Local hotel group Jetwing`s project will have 70 rooms and 28 serviced apartments. Opening April 2014.
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It s not that we want a separate state, just that Govt.
Sunday, 3 June 2012 - 8:36 AM SL Time
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Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan has been headlong in controversy since he made a speech at the 14th national convention of the Illankai Tamal Arasu Katchi, which many interpreted as a defence of the LTTE armed struggle, a call for a separate state and international interference. Speaking to LAKBIMAnEWS he clarifies his position re the issues mentioned as well as the possibility of participating in the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), and his desire to find a political solution within an undivided democratic nation:
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Tamils cut out middlemen and sail straight here
Monday, 4 June 2012 - 7:16 AM SL Time
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SRI Lankans are again seeking asylum from Australia by boat in large numbers and they are bypassing people-smugglers in Indonesia, instead sailing direct to Christmas Island.
Immigration authorities believe the 88 Sri Lankans offloaded at Christmas Island yesterday were the latest in recent months to embark on the perilous boat trip of more than 3000km from Sri Lanka to the Australian territory of Christmas Island.
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Billions wiped off in market bloodbath
Monday, 4 June 2012 - 12:49 PM SL Time
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An estimated $23 billion has been wiped off the Australian share market as it fell further in intra-day trading.
At 3pm (AEST) the benchmark ASX 200 index was 1.9 per cent lower at 3,989, dropping below 4,000 for the first time in seven months, and the broader All Ordinaries Index had fallen 1.9 per cent to 4,038.
The local market dropped after major indices in Europe and on Wall Street slumped on the back of disappointing US jobs figures, slow US manufacturing growth, record unemployment rates in Europe and weak Chinese manufacturing data.
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MR heads to UK
Tuesday, 5 June 2012 - 6:05 AM SL Time
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa left for Britain early this morning to take part in Queen Elizabeth 11 Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
A delegation of just over 35 members are accompanying the President to London where he will be hosted to lunch with the Queen.
Human rights activists have paid particular attention to the invitation of president Rajapaksa, whose regime has come under increased scrutiny over alleged war crimes and disappearances.
Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne on Feb. 6, 1952, exactly 60 years and 118 days ago as of Sunday. In the long history of England and the British Empire, only Queen Victoria has ruled longer, for 63 years and 216 days.
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Australia concerned over funds to people-smugglers from Sri Lanka s affluent Tamil diaspora: Report
Tuesday, 5 June 2012 - 7:56 AM SL Time
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People smugglers who have fraudulently obtained refugee status are operating inside Australia - and the federal government has been aware of the practice for a long time. ABC`s Four Corners revealed last night that senior people-smugglers and their families were among the thousands of asylum-seekers who had arrived by boat in order to continue their lucrative trade from Australia.
Using an Australian-based informant, Hussain, a refugee living in Australia, the ABC tracked down an alleged Iraqi people-smuggler known as `Captain Emad`. Captain Emad and several of his agents were allegedly sent by Jakarta-based smuggling kingpin Abu Ali al-Kuwaiti to establish a beach-head in Australia in 2010, reports The Australian.
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Depreciating Indian Rupee Leads RBI to Intervene
Wednesday, 6 June 2012 - 7:23 AM SL Time
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Indian rupee continues to depreciate against the American greenback, falling to all-time low of $54.60 USD. Recently, this catapulted action by the central bank to redeem further damage to the local economy. The Indian currency fell to extraordinary lows against the dollar after the release of weaker than expected industrial output data. Since August, the currency has lost 16.6 percent of its value and has been labeled as the weakest currency in Asia.
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Treasurer hails `exceptional` economic growth
Wednesday, 6 June 2012 - 1:33 PM SL Time
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Australia`s economic growth surged by 1.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year, more than double economists` expectations, driven by household spending, business investment and mining construction.
The Bureau of Statistics figures show the economy grew by 4.3 per cent in the 12 months to the end of March on a seasonally adjusted basis, its highest level in 4.5 years and well above the long-term average of around 3.25 per cent.
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan hailed the gross domestic product figures as painting an `extraordinary picture of exceptional growth`.
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Sri Lanka bars entry to two British journalists
Thursday, 7 June 2012 - 6:31 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka said Wednesday it refused entry into the country to two journalists of a British television station which had aired a series of videos accusing the military of war crimes.
The Immigration and Emigration Department said that the journalists attached to the British Channel 4 television were sent back after they arrived in Sri Lanka.
Immigration head Chulananda Perera told Xinhua that one female journalist, Shirani Sabaratnam, was refused entry at the country` s only international airport on Tuesday.
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Killing of handsome Tamil cricketer traced to UK-based wife
Thursday, 7 June 2012 - 8:42 AM SL Time
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Police investigating the killing of 28-year-old Iswaradasan Kedeshwaran aka `Kathee` in the Trincomalee police division on the night of April 18, 2012 have arrested a pilot and an Air Force deserter.
Sources said that the suspects had killed the handsome cricketer on a contract given by his wife, living in the UK. Asked whether the police were in touch with British authorities, sources said that action would be taken to track down the woman and explore the possibility of having her extradited.
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Sri Lanka without the chaos
Friday, 8 June 2012 - 6:52 AM SL Time
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In 2005, when he became president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa issued a document titled Mahinda Chintana, or Mahinda`s Vision. In it he proclaimed: I will not permit any separatism. This he held true to, corralling a brutal rebellion by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The nearly 30-year war ended in May 2009 after the decimation of the LTTE and the death of its chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
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6.5 Million encrypted LinkedIn passwords leaked online
Friday, 8 June 2012 - 9:22 AM SL Time
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It`s not a good day for LinkedIn. After reports that its iOS app potentially violates user privacy by sending detailed calendar entries to its servers, comes a report that 6.46 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords have leaked online.
A Russian forum user claims he has hacked LinkedIn, uploading 6,458,020 encrypted passwords (without usernames) as proof.
The passwords are encrypted with the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function, used in SSL and TLS and generally considered to be relatively secure, but not foolproof. Unfortunately, it also seems that passwords are stored as unsalted hashes, which it makes it much easier to decipher them using pre-computed rainbow tables.
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Legal advice to nullify 2002 agreement with LIOC
Saturday, 9 June 2012 - 1:57 PM SL Time
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The Petroleum Ministry is to reacquire the 99 oil tanks in Trincomalee which were leased out to Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC), highly placed sources of the Ministry told Ceylon Today.
The Ministry has already sought legal advice to nullify the agreement between the Petroleum Ministry and the LIOC signed in 2002 which authorized the leasing out of the oil tanks. The Ministry handed over 99 oil tanks to the LIOC under a 33-year lease.
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TNA misleads Tamil youth KP
Sunday, 10 June 2012 - 7:32 AM SL Time
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LTTE`s former arms procurer and international Financial Controller Kumaran Pathmanathan charged the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of misleading the Tamil youth in the country, including former combatants. Speaking exclusively to The Nation Pathmanathan alias KP, who once supported the LTTE`s cause for a separate state, said the TNA and a section of the Tamil Diaspora were provoking and misleading the youth, thereby affecting the reconciliation process carried out by the government.
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Man Cured of AIDS: `I Feel Good`
Sunday, 10 June 2012 - 3:19 PM SL Time
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The fact that Timothy Brown is a reasonably healthy 46-year-old is no small thing. Only a few years ago, he had AIDS.
`I feel good,` Brown told ABC News. `I haven`t had any major illnesses, just occasional colds like normal people.`
Brown is the only person in the world to be cured of AIDS, the result of a transplant of blood stem cells he received to treat leukemia.
`My case is the proof in concept that HIV can be cured,` he said.
Brown got lucky. The blood stem cells he received came from a donor with a special genetic mutation that made him resistant to HIV. The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races. Before Brown got his transplant in 2007, doctors tested nearly 70 donors for this genetic mutation before they found one who was a match.
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Sri Lanks`s FTAs with India and Pakistan offer access to giant markets, and constitution guarantees investor protection
Monday, 11 June 2012 - 3:42 PM SL Time
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Thailand- or Asean-based companies looking to enter the lucrative Indian and Pakistani markets are being encouraged to set up operations in Sri Lanka to make use of the favourable free trade agreements it has with the two countries.
`Sri Lanka is well poised to be a safe and sound investment destination,` President Mahinda Rajapaks told a gathering of business leaders during his official visit to Thailand last week.
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Less than 50% spent by some universities: SB
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 - 6:37 AM SL Time
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Most universities have failed to use even 50 per cent of their annual allocations for last year because of administrative and financial problems, Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake told Parliament.
The minister said though some groups accused the government of not allocating sufficient funds to develop the university system, the authorities had failed to use the allocated amount.
They have been unable to use up even 50 per cent of their allocations. We will take action in this regard, he said.
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Apple takes on Google with own maps, better Siri
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 - 8:43 AM SL Time
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc took the wraps off its own mobile mapping service and improved the search capabilities of its Siri voice assistant, taking the fight into Google Inc`s domain.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc took the wraps off its own mobile mapping service and improved the search capabilities of its Siri voice assistant, taking the fight into Google Inc`s domain.
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US exempts India, but not China, from Iran sanctions
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 - 11:25 AM SL Time
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The United States said it would exempt seven emerging economies including India from tough new sanctions after they cut back on oil from Iran, but the punishment still loomed for China.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton added India, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Taiwan to the list of those exempt from the sanctions. In March, she made exemptions for European Union nations and Japan.
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Americans` Wealth, Net Worth Down 40% In 3 Years
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 - 6:06 PM SL Time
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Just how bad have the last three years been for some Americans? A Fed survey has some brutal data today showing that both median family income and net worth dropped dramatically over the last three years.
The median family net worth dropped a staggering 40% to $77,300 in 2010 from $126,400 in 2007, the Fed said in its Survey of Consumer Finances which is released every three years. The median family income dropped as well from $49,600 in 2007 to $45,800, or a 7.7% drop.
Middle-class families faced the brunt of the declines with those in the 60th to 80th percentile of income seeing a 40.4% drop in net worth from $215,700 to $128,600. Families with a net income in the the 20th to 39.9th percentile of income saw a 35.4% drop in net worth from $39,600 to $25,600.
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UNP in new internal battle over SF
Wednesday, 13 June 2012 - 8:36 AM SL Time
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UNP Puttalam District MP Range Bandara yesterday reacted angrily after being advised by the party`s National Organiser Daya Gamage not to keep company of Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader, General Sarath Fonseka.
Party sources told The Island that Bandara had retorted that he couldn`t abandon Gen. Fonseka to appease the likes of Gamage. Bandara said that General Fonseka wasn`t an ordinary leader but a true patriot acceptable to all.
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China`s top legislator vows further ties with Sri Lankan parliament
Thursday, 14 June 2012 - 6:13 AM SL Time
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China`s top legislator Wu Bangguo on Wednesday pledged to boost exchanges and cooperation with the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People`s Congress (NPC), made the pledge during a meeting with Chamal Rajapaksa, speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Wu hailed the traditional friendship between China and the South Asian state, saying bilateral ties are experiencing a prime period marked by frequent high-level visits, fruitful economic cooperation and active cultural exchanges.
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Sri Lanka`s Hambantota to host Asian Youth Games
Friday, 15 June 2012 - 6:54 AM SL Time
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka`s southern port town of Hambantota has been chosen as the host city of the third Asian Youth Games in 2017.
This was announced on Thursday by Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah, the president of the Olympic Council of Asia.
Hambantota, the newly developed port city, failed to win the bid for hosting the 2018 Commonwealth Games after it was defeated by Australia`s Gold Coast last year.
The district, which is the home base of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has seen the commissioning of a new sea port while the island`s second international airport is currently being constructed there.
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Sri Lankans lured with promise of citizenship
Friday, 15 June 2012 - 11:20 AM SL Time
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Sri Lankan asylum seekers are being promised Australian citizenship, but for many it will be a voyage to their deaths. Ben Doherty reports.
An international people-smuggling network is preying on Tamil refugees in southern India, promising them safe passage across the Indian Ocean and guaranteeing them Australian citizenship when they arrive.
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Indian female athlete in gender row after rape arrest
Friday, 15 June 2012 - 4:05 PM SL Time
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A female Indian athlete who has been charged with raping her live-in partner has defended herself against claims that she is actually a man.
Pinki Pramanik, who won a 4x400m relay gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games, was arrested late on Thursday and taken to Baguiati police station in the northwest of Kolkata.
Police said her partner had accused her of repeated rape and of being male, and that Pramanik had refused to take a medical examination at a government hospital.
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US-EU slowdown to affect Lanka .
Saturday, 16 June 2012 - 5:11 PM SL Time
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While saying that the economic slowdown in Europe and the United States would adversely affect Sri Lanka`s economy reducing the growth rate to 6.75 per cent this year, The International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday expressed its willingness to give further financial and technical assistance to Sri Lanka after the completion of the Stand by Arrangement of US$ 2.6 billion.
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Strict formula for dual citizenship
Sunday, 17 June 2012 - 10:27 AM SL Time
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The Immigration and Emigration Department will begin processing dual citizenship under a strict formula within the next three months.
Controller of Immigration and Emigration Chulananda Perera told the Sunday Observer that under the new criteria a Sri Lankan holding citizenship of another country will be granted permanent residency for five years before he becomes eligible for dual citizenship.
This will be the norm for all categories of applicants in the future, he said.
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UNP demand immediate removal of Defence Secretary
Monday, 18 June 2012 - 7:48 AM SL Time
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The United National Party today called for the immediate removal of the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, as they don`t believe the shooting at a JVP meeting in Katuwana, Hambantota will be independently investigated and solved under his administration.
As with all other extra judicial killings, abductions, involuntary disappearances and killing of protesters, we don`t have any reason to believe, there will be independent investigations and a proper judicial process initiated, in this double murder, says UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera.
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$3000 for an asylum voyage to nowhere
Monday, 18 June 2012 - 10:38 AM SL Time
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THE boat is named for St Antony and a Virgin Mary still sits atop the wheel house, but no amount of prayer would have saved this leaking death trap and its 151 passengers had Indian police not intercepted it barely a nautical mile outside Kerala`s Kollam harbour this month.
Oily water now fills the dark, airless fish hatch at the stern where dozens of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers bound for Christmas Island stood jammed like cargo on the night of June 4, an ordeal for which each had paid at least $3000.
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Court told Tamil refugee being detained `illegally`
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 - 7:19 AM SL Time
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A SRI Lankan Tamil refugee who has spent almost three years in immigration detention was being held illegally because there was no ``reasonable prospect`` of another country agreeing to resettle him, the High Court was told yesterday.
Lawyers for the refugee, known only as M47, said the Australian government had accepted that there was a ``real chance`` that he would be tortured, killed or abducted if returned to Sri Lanka.
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Egyptian military holds on to power despite presidential vote
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 - 10:26 AM SL Time
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An Islamist backed by the Muslim Brotherhood declared victory as Egypt`s first democratically elected president even as the country`s military rulers issued a decree that stripped the position of much of its power.
The move by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces -- who have run Egypt since the ouster in February 2011 of Hosni Mubarak -- came Sunday at the conclusion of a two-day presidential runoff.
Even with no constitution, no parliament and, possibly, little power, the Muslim Brotherhood`s Mohamed Morsi declared victory late Sunday over Ahmed Shafik, who was Egypt`s prime minister in the final days of the regime of Mubarak.
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Lankan minister`s remarks anger DMK, asks PM to intervene
Wednesday, 20 June 2012 - 6:28 PM SL Time
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Chennai: A controversial remark reportedly made by Sri Lankan Minister for Power and Energy, Champika Ranawaka has touched a raw nerve in Tamil Nadu. In a fax to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, DMK Chief Karunanidhi says the minister `threatened that one Mullaivaikal was enough and that no one should try to get hundred more`.
Mullaivaikal is a seashore area in Sri Lanka where human rights groups estimate 40,000 Tamil civilians were massacred in the final months of the island`s civil war in 2009. Rebel Tamil Tiger chief Prabhakaran was killed at a nearby lagoon. The minister`s remark is being seen as a veiled threat.
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`Perera reminds me of Klusener` - Ford
Thursday, 21 June 2012 - 6:48 AM SL Time
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`It`s very exciting for Sri Lanka cricket to have a young man coming through the ranks and he should be around for a long time and hopefully winning games with his performance in all aspects of the game.`
Klusener, reputed for his big hitting in the late stages of an innings, was a left-hand bat and right-arm medium-pace bowler like Perera is. Perera has already developed a reputation for being a finisher with the bat in ODIs. He took 11 wickets at an average of 15.54 against Pakistan which included a hat-trick in the fourth ODI, making him only the fourth Sri Lanka bowler to achieve the feat after Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga and Farveez Maharoof.
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BRICS countries pour cash into I.M.F.
Thursday, 21 June 2012 - 7:08 AM SL Time
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The `BRICS` group of countries including Brazil, Russia, India,China, and South Africa have contributed a sum of U.S.D. 70 Billion to the International Monetary Fund.
With this, the wealth of the I.M.F. has increased to USD 380 Billion. According to the I.M.F. reports, China has contributed USD 40 Billion, while the other BRICS members have contributed USD 10 Billion each.
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British HC denies claims of deportee abuse
Thursday, 21 June 2012 - 11:58 AM SL Time
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In spite of the UK-based Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and several international human rights groups constantly alleging systematic abuse of those who had been deported from the UK, the British High Commission yesterday said it was not aware of a single case of deportee abuse since the conclusion of the conflict in May 2009.
The British High Commission had not received any substantiated allegations of mistreatment on return of those removed from the UK, a spokesperson for the HC said. She was responding to a query by The Island whether the UK mission had received complaints against the government, the military or the police.
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TESO conference will discuss Tamil Eelam, says Karuna
Saturday, 23 June 2012 - 6:57 PM SL Time
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Insisting on non-violent means to achieve a separate Tamil Eelam, DMK chief M Karunanidhi said on Friday the August 5 conference of the now revived Tamil Eelam Supporters` Organisation (TESO) will discuss ways and means to fulfil it.
Addressing a public conference here to condemn `foisting` of cases against his party colleagues by the AIADMK government, Karunanidhi said his party had stood by the Sri Lankan Tamils for the past 50 years and his government had even faced dismissal for the Lankan cause.
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The RCMP says it has arrested a man charged over the smuggling of 492 Tamil migrants into Canada
Tuesday, 26 June 2012 - 9:15 PM SL Time
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The RCMP says it has arrested a man charged over the smuggling of 492 Tamil migrants into Canada.
Mounties say they have arrested Nadarajah Mahendran at Toronto`s Pearson International Airport without incident and aboard a flight originating in Sri Lanka.
Mahendran is one of six men charged over the August 2010 arrival of the MV Sun Sea in British Columbia.
Police in Thailand, Australia, France and Norway have all helped with the investigation,
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Sri Lankan Navy should stop harassing fishermen
Thursday, 28 June 2012 - 6:53 PM SL Time
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Observing that Indian fishermen hailing from Tamil Nadu have been traditionally fishing in contentious Katchatheevu, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ask Colombo to stop its navy from harassing them.
Referring to the latest incident, she said fishermen in 45 boats fishing near Katchatheevu on June 26 were harassed by Sri Lankan Navy personnel.
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Test series against Sri Lanka : Pakistan lodges complaint over poor umpiring
Friday, 29 June 2012 - 9:42 AM SL Time
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formally lodged a complaint over poor umpiring decisions in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle, at a time when the International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board has decided against making the Umpires Decision Review System (UDRS) compulsory in all Tests. Clearly buckling under pressure from the Indian cricket board`s strong opposition to the UDRS, the ICC board on Wednesday decided to stick with the current system of allowing boards to decide themselves on having the UDRS in a bilateral series.
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Refugees Losing All In Bid To Go Down Under
Saturday, 30 June 2012 - 8:51 AM SL Time
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Sevannan Viralasingham has been separated from his family for over 10 years. In a bid to rejoin with them he sought the assistance of human smugglers. After nearly two years of raising the funds and attempting the journey, Viralasingham is still no closer to his family than when he started.
Viralasingham, who lived in Kilinochchi his entire life, owned a small shop in the main town, until in early 2000. The LTTE forced me to shut down my shop claiming I had been secretly sending supplies to the government forces, he said. With his main source of income now gone Viralasingham was concerned as to how his wife and child would survive in the war zone.
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