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TOURISM-SRI LANKA: Repentant Industry Wants To Be Eco-Friendly
Aware that its tempting sun n' sands image has spawned problems like environmental pollution and rampant sex tourism, Sri Lanka is seriously looking at eco- tourism as a sustainable alternative for growth.LABOUR-SRI LANKA: Trade Union Pins TNCs To Negotiating Table
When a Sri Lankan trade union protested against retrenching at the local Coca Cola plant last year, it lost the battle despite an 80-day strike that paralysed production.WEEKLY BULLETIN-SRI LANKA: Small Loans Set Poor Up For Life
A cow bought with money from a credit and savings scheme has changed Gamagedera Bisomenike's life. Recently she repaired her dilapidated mud hut and bought some furniture with money saved from the daily sale of milk.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Small Loans Set Poor Up For Life
A cow bought with money from a credit and savings scheme has changed Gamagedera Bisomenike's life. Recently she repaired her dilapidated mud hut and bought some furniture with money saved from the daily sale of milk.SOUTH ASIA: Summit Ends With More Pledges Of Cooperation
The tenth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ended in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday with regional leaders agreeing to speed up the process of regional economic cooperation.SOUTH ASIA: Ritual Summit Tries To Steer Away From Politics
Officially, the urgent need to liberalise trade relations among South Asian countries is foremost on the agenda of the ritual annual meeting of leaders of the region's seven nations, in progress in the Sri Lankan capital.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: NGOs Up Against Government, Tamil Rebels
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), both local and international groups that work in the war zone in Sri Lanka, are at constant risk of being accused of siding either with Tamil rebels or the government.SOUTH ASIA: Leaders Meet In Colombo Against N-Tests Backdrop
Leaders of South Asia's seven countries will be meeting this week in Sri Lanka's capital to discuss the region's economic and political future, but nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan is not on the agenda.SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka Bids To Retain Edge In World Tea Business
Tea drinkers all over the world swear by hand-plucked leaves from the fabled tea plantations of Sri Lanka, the world's biggest tea exporter.TRADE: Sri Lanka Bids To Retain Edge In World Tea Business
Tea drinkers all over the world swear by hand-plucked leaves from the fabled tea plantations of Sri Lanka, the world's biggest tea exporter.POLITICS-SRI LANKA: Women Grab Chance To Fight Local Election
For the first time, an independent Sri Lankan group is putting up women activists in the upcoming provincial government elections, bolstering a separate campaign here for a women's political party.MUSIC-SRI LANKA: “Gypsies” Bring All People Together
Thousands of adoring fans ranging from old men and grey-haired women to young couples with infants and youths in jeans and girls in minis, are preparing for the latest tour of the "Gypsies" - Sri Lanka's best-loved band.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Relatives of Missing Civilians Denied Justice?
Pandukkavidalage Somawathie, 55, weeps inconsolably as she recalls how a group of men, including Sri Lankan soldiers, took her son away one night in 1988 during a crackdown against left-wing guerrillas.POPULATION-SRI LANKA: Young Migrate From Neglected Farm Lands
Years of neglect by governments has ruined Sri Lanka's prosperous agricultural economy, forcing an exodus of young people from the villages.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-SRI LANKA: Fewer Elephants Are Able to Roam the Wild
At the turn of the century there were as many as 1,200 wild elephants in Sri Lanka's forests. Two years short of the new millennium, that number has dwindled to one third.ENVIRONMENT-SRI LANKA: Fewer Elephants Are Able to Roam the Wild
At the turn of the century there were as many as 1,200 wild elephants in Sri Lanka's forests. Two years short of the new millennium, that number has dwindled to one third.SRI LANKA: Decades of Strife Traumatise Sri Lankans
Even two years after a bomb destroyed the Central Bank in Sri Lanka's capital, a bank official who survived, complains he can't sleep or work. Images of the mangled bodies of his dead colleagues haunt him day and night.MEDIA-SRI LANKA: No News From the Warfront
Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga swept to power in elections in 1994 promising an early end to the bitter ethnic conflict that has divided the island.SRI LANKA: Development Scatters Indigenous ‘Veddahs’
Hemmed in by rapid urbanisation and development, Sri Lanka's indigenous 'Veddahs' may be forced to give up their hunting and gathering way of life in the new millennium.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-SRI LANKA: Slimmer Pickings At Paris Aid Meeting
Sri Lanka has been a favourite for foreign donors who have ploughed sizable sums of cash into its war-torn economy in the past decade, but this year its share is likely to be slimmer with the global aid pie shrinking.SRI LANKA: Peace Process Bogged Down in Unwinnable War
The longest-ever battle in Sri Lanka for control of a strategic highway entered a second year this month with combatants vowing to continue the fight to the finish amidst fresh reports of conscription and also peace talks.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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