Military victory not handed over on a platter - President
President Mahinda Rajapaksa asserted yesterday
that some internal forces were trying to charge Sri Lanka for war
crimes to cover up their shortcomings and to degrade the hard earned
military victory,
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Southerners set to strengthen President’s hands
The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is
set to create history and register a landslide victory at next
Saturday’s Southern Provincial Council elections. Political
observers said that the UPFA could obtain the highest ever
percentage of votes polled by a political party in Sri Lanka’s
election history.
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European Parliament’s Friends of Sri Lanka say:
Support Sri Lanka to obtain GSP+ concession
Friends of Sri Lanka Group of the European
Parliament Dr. Charles Tannock MEP has called for support to Sri
Lanka to get the GSP+ concession.
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More welfare facilities, job security:
Amended Act to benefit Sri Lankan workers abroad
Over 200,000 Sri Lankans seek employment
overseas annually and around 1.4 million workers in foreign
countries will benefit by the Amended Act No. 21 of the Sri Lanka
Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) which was approved by
Parliament last week.
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Indonesian disaster leaves whole villages buried
Whole villages in Indonesia’s quake zone were
found obliterated by landslides Saturday, as rescuers searched
desperately for upto 4,000 people believed still trapped in the
disaster area.
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The visiting foreign Minister of Seychelles Jean Paul Adams and Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris held bi-lateral discussions at the Foreign Ministry this evening.
Sri Lanka registered a superb 35 (five goals) points to 10 (one goal and one penalty) victory over Singapore in their Asian Five Nations Rugby Division 1 tournament match played at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines today.
Two Thai women who were pretending pregnant mothers, were apprehended while attempting to smuggle 162 cocaine tablets. 
The Government decision to increase the import tax on motor vehicles was aimed at controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the vehicle fleet of the country as excessive number of vehicles have been imported to the country during the past three years, Acting Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today. “We had no other intention behind this move other than controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the road network”, the Minister said.
The Catholic Church today appealed to the President to halt any amendments leading to relax existing Abortion Law of the country, cautioning that such measures would aggravate the social issue and deprive children of their right to life. 
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Wednesday night that the new head of the government’s Socialist Left party (SV) has ousted veteran SV politician and former party leader Erik Solheim as the government minister in charge of both environmental and foreign aid issues.
The Department of Wildlife and Conservation (DWLC) has launched an investigation why the army shot two wild elephants in Bundala yesterday. According to environmentalists one jumbo was shot in the head and the other sustain similar gun shot injuries.
The Sri Lankan delegation, who left the country Wednesday to attend the 19th session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva, Switzerland, says they have a well-organized plan to counteract the arguments against Sri Lanka.
Eight Indian fishermen from Keechankuppam fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam district sustained injuries in an alleged mid-sea attack by Lankan fishermen at midnight on Tuesday.
The UK still believes that a process led in Sri Lanka is better than one led internationally, said the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Alistair Burt, participating in a debate on the situation in Sri Lanka in the House of Commons yesterday (22).
In a new boost to Sri Lanka’s geo-textile industry and Sri Lanka’s standing as world’s largest exporter of coir fibre, a top US government agency has cleared the way for Sri Lankan made geo-textiles for two projects. 
