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/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-SRI LANKA: Ancient Tribe Made a Living Museum
Seated on a mat spread on the floor of his small mud-wall-and-thatch-roof hut, in this eastern Sri Lankan forest village, the tribal chief grumbles that things are no longer the same.POLITICS-SRI LANKA: No Clear Winners Expected in October Poll
Sri Lanka is preparing to elect a new parliament next month with the two main rivals running neck and neck, amidst expectations by some that voters may have to give yet another verdict.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Ethnic War Makes Villagers Homeless at Night
Every evening, Mary Nona takes a pillow and sheet from her home in this north-eastern Sri Lankan village and walks to another hamlet to spend the night.POLITICS-SRI LANKA: Little Room for Women in National Poll
It had the world's first woman prime minister and is one of the few nations with a woman head of state, but Sri Lanka continues to treat public life as a male preserve.RIGHTS-ASIA: No End in Sight to Violence Against Women
Whenever members of Afghanistan's main women's rights group travel abroad to attend conferences, they carry hand- made carpets or other exquisite handicraft from their country.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Rice Farmers Go Hungry to Save Themselves
Wimala Nona could not stand it any longer. The 65-year-old grandmother had to choose between watching her Sri Lankan rural household starve, or joining the protest.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Muslim Refugees To Lose Land to the Law
Habib Mullah longs to go back home, far from this small fishing town on Sri Lanka's north-western coast where he lives with thousands of others like him./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-SRI LANKA: Gov’t Stops Screening of Moving War Story
In the stillness of the dawn, a hearse carrying the body of a soldier killed by Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels wends its way along a village path toward the home of the slain young man.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: War Widows Cry for Compensation
The dusty mud track in this remote hamlet in north-central Sri Lanka is like any another village path in the country's dry zone. Except for the road marker.ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Growth is on Track Despite War
The good news for Sri Lanka is that economic growth is on track despite the ongoing ethnic conflict. But the bad news is that its growth rate would have doubled without the war, say the country's top economic officials.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Tamil Tigers Bait Children, Parents
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger insurgents are drawing children into their ranks with false promises of restoring them to their families or sending them abroad after some time, say aid workers.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Debating Physical Punishment in Schools
Child rights activists and school authorities in Sri Lanka are arguing over the continuance of physical punishment in schools with the government unable to make up its mind.POLITICS-SRI LANKA: New Peace Package Seen To Hold Hope
A new structure of governance for Sri Lanka, proposed for the first time by the ruling and opposition parties, is a sound base for a political solution to the 17-year-old ethnic violence in the Indian Ocean island nation, said analysts.HEALTH-SRI LANKA: Illicit Drink Found ‘Safe’
New findings that a clandestinely sold liquor, popular in Sri Lankan villages, is not harmful, have worried those who blame alcohol for worsening rural poverty in the Indian Ocean island nation.//SOCIAL SUMMIT 2000// DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: No End to Ethnic Tension
Sri Lanka's unending ethnic war is the biggest block to social development goals pledged by nations five years ago and under review now at a global conference in Geneva, say experts.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Village Women Discover Self-Help
Life is tough for women in this northcentral Sri Lankan village, having to cope with drunken husbands and poverty at home, and sexual violence outside.MEDIA-SRI LANKA: Censorship Not Helping War Effort – Critics
Encouraged by a partial easing of censorship, Sri Lankan media has stepped up its campaign for freedom to report the Jaffna conflict, warning the government it would otherwise lose out in the propaganda war to Tamil Tiger rebels.SRI LANKA: Jaffna Crisis Won’t Dent President’s Popularity — Analysts
Preoccupied with a bloody conflict with rebels in Sri Lanka's northern region, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has little time to think of an upcoming national battle with political rivals.SRI LANKA: Jaffna Crisis Won’t Dent President’s Popularity — Analysts
Preoccupied with a bloody conflict with rebels in Sri Lanka's northern region, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has little time to think of an upcoming national battle with political rivals.AGRICULTURE-SRI LANKA: Wonder Soya Crop Gives Hope to Poor Farmers
In one of the luscious green fields that cover large areas of this district, Herath-hamige Vallihami is preparing to harvest the ripened soyabean crop with the help of her two grandchildren.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: One Woman Battles Poverty, Hopelessness
When Padmini Jayaweera walks down the dusty mud roads of this Sri Lankan village, a passing motorcyclist or tractor driver usually stops by and offers to take her where she wants to go.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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