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SINGAPORE, June 20, 2007 (AFP) – India’s improved bilateral relations with the United States are not intended to try and contain the growing might of China, the Indian foreign minister said Wednesday in Singapore. Mukherjee arrived in Singapore on Monday for a three-day visit.On Wednesday, he met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and delivered […]

June 21, 2007 (AFP) – Media rights groups attacked Sri Lanka’s government Thursday for blocking domestic access to a website favouring the Tamil Tiger rebels and for saying it would like hackers to disable the site.Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Colombo should immediately unblock the Tamilnet.com website. “Sri Lanka’s Internet service providers have been blocking […]

June 21, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s top media rights body has condemned a statement by a minister who made remarks about hacking a Tamil news website which was blocked by at least two of the country’s top telecom firms, reportedly on government orders. The full statement is reproduced below: The Free Media Movement (FMM) […]

June 19, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s navy attacked a flotilla of Tamil Tiger boats off the island’s northern coast Tuesday, sinking at least three craft, an official said.The latest naval battle came as troops in the east of the island stepped up pressure on the guerrillas who have been fighting for independence since 1972.More […]

June 20, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Telecom, the country’s largest Internet service provider, has blocked a pro-rebel website on government orders, a source at the company said Wednesday.A Sri Lanka Telecom executive, who declined to be named, said the website has been blocked for several days on the “advice” of the government. The London-based […]

June 20, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Free Media Movement (FMM) has slammed a move to block access to a Tamil news internet website , saying that the country was on a “slippery slope of web and internet censorship”. . The full statement from FMM is reproduced below: The Free Media Movement is deeply disturbed […]

June 20, 2007 (AFP) – The Sri Lankan army said Wednesday that two months of fighting aimed at ousting Tamil Tiger rebels from jungles in the east of the island has left 197 dead, the vast majority of them guerrillas. The island’s security forces have been trying to remove pockets of rebels from the Thoppigala […]

June 20, 2007 (AFP) – Nordic monitors in Sri Lanka said Wednesday they would stop issuing rulings on government or Tamil Tiger violations of a 2002 truce that is no longer being respected.The decision comes after more than a year of escalating fighting between Sri Lankan government troops and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]

June 20, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s military now has the capacity to shoot down Tamil Tiger light airplanes which have bombed four targets on the island this year, the government said Wednesday. The enhanced capability means the island’s only international airport will soon reopen for night flights after its closure earlier this year as […]

June 19, 2007 (LBO) – Two former Sri Lankan government ministers crossed to the opposition benches of the parliament Tuesday, deepening divisions in the ruling coalition. Mangala Samaraweera and Sripathi Sooriyarachchi, who were sacked from their portfolios after differences with President Mahinda Rajapakse, took their seats on the opposition benches on Friday morning. Samaraweera explained […]

June 19, 2007 (LBO) – Two former ministers of the main ruling party in Sri Lanka said they are forming a new political wing, after crossing over to sit in opposition benches Tuesday, deepening divisions in the ruling coalition. . The Sri Lanka Freedom Party- Mahajana Wing or ‘Peoples’ Wing’ would be formally launched Friday, […]