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Myanmar top leader Senior-General Than Shwe will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka soon, an official announcement from Nay Pyi Taw said on Monday, without giving the specific date of his visit. According to the Sri Lankan sources earlier, Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, will pay the visit near this weekend and the trip will last for three days. Than Shwe's Colombo visit...
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Nov 08 (CP) Tangalle- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa yesterday participated in religious activities in Tangalle to commemorate the 42nd death anniversary of his late father DA Rajapaksa.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka Opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe today said that the announcement made by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the increasing of salaries of government workers will be another election artifice.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Nov 07, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning paid a floral tribute to the statue of his father late D.A. Rajapaksa in Tangalle.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Nov 07, Kataragama: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the sacred Kataragama Kiri Vehera Temple last night to participate in special religious activities.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Nov 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today made a surprise visit to the Parliament complex in Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, Presidential Media Unit said.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Nov 05, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremoniously inaugurated the restructured Air Force Museum at the Sri Lanka Air Force Base in Ratmalana today.
JURIST - Paper Chase (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[JURIST] Sri Lanka's Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka returned home Thursday without being questioned by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about alleged war crimes. Fonseka, a US permanent resident with a diplomatic passport and a Green Card, had traveled to the US to visit his daughters in Oklahoma. The Sri Lankan government was concerned that the DHS was seeking testimony...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Nov 05, Colombo: Peoples' Friendship University of the Russian Federation plans to award an Honorary Doctorate to President Mahinda Rajapaksa,....
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The mysterious ambitions of Sri Lanka’s victorious army commander NOT even six months has elapsed since the protracted war with Tamil Tiger rebels ended in a bloody climax, leading to the Sri Lankan government’s triumph. But already the leaders of the military campaign are sparring ahead of an election due next year. For weeks the press has been speculating about friction between the administration...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Nov 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today announced a salary hike for the security forces with immediate effect.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Nov 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today paid a visit to the war-torn Northern region for the first time since the end of war and addressed the newly resettled civilians and the troops serving in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Security Forces Headquarters in the North.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Nov 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that there is no need to launch strikes and other union actions to achieve the demands further in the future.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Sri Lanka recently released more than 41,000 of the internally displaced persons from one of its relief camps in the north. The people were transported to their respective villages, which, according to the government, had been de-mined and made suitable for resettlement. But it is not merely the earlier 'unsuitability' of habitations that has been holding up the release and relocation of IDPs. The...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Nov 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka government is to consider revamping the country's tax structure under a directive of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Treasury Sources said.
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