Sri Lanka
May 03, 2013
COLOMBO--Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso's visit to Sri Lanka yielded promises of stronger ties between the two countries, bringing Japan a step closer to its goal of building a ...
March 13, 2013
Japan plans to strengthen its maritime security alliance with Sri Lanka to curb China's growing influence on countries with Indian Ocean coastlines.
February 27, 2013
NEW DELHI--Sri Lanka's security forces have used rape to torture and extract confessions from suspected Tamil separatists almost four years after the country's civil war ended, ...
February 10, 2013
For more than a century, Sri Lanka was the world's largest exporter of black tea. But that ended 10 years ago, when economics caused global tastes to shift away from the...
January 15, 2013
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--Sri Lanka's president on Jan. 15 swore in a trusted aide to replace the chief justice he fired, a move that could lead to a judicial crisis if lawyers and...
November 10, 2012
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--A shootout between rioting prisoners and security forces at a prison in Sri Lanka's capital killed at least 27 inmates, while police said Nov. 10 that they...
October 12, 2012
One could say Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Alubomulle Sumanasara has a way with words. He has sold more than 1 million copies of his collected sermons during two decades of...
August 06, 2012
BEIJING -- China has called on Sri Lanka to release 37 Chinese fishermen detained by the Sri Lankan navy, China's Xinhua state news agency reported on Aug. 6, in a case that...
May 25, 2012
WASHINGTON -- Human rights conditions have deteriorated in China with a "closing of space" for activists and lawyers, while Vietnam also continues to severely restrict freedom...
May 20, 2012
COLOMBO--Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the early release from jail of his highest-profile political rival Sarath Fonseka, the president's spokesman said...
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