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Film described as ‘misleading and
misrepresentative’:
UK’s Ofcom to probe Channel 4 documentary
The UK Government’s Office of Communications
(Ofcom) is to investigate the veracity of Channel 4’s recent
documentary ‘Sri Lanka’s killing Fields’ following complaints that
it was misleading and misrepresentative. British-based TV website TV
Pixie, in a report filed by Alex Guest, disclosed that Ofcom would
probe the program, presented by Jon Snow and produced by Callum
Macrae.
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ABC urged to stop screening of CH 4 film
Sri Lanka’s High Commission in Australia, which
protested the screening of Channel 4 video “Sri Lanka’s Killing
Fields” on ABC’s Four Corners Program, has written to the Executive
Producer Sue Spencer requesting to avoid telecasting the
documentary, as it is completely biased and contains unsubstantiated
allegations against the Government of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka taken off US human trafficking watch list
An annual US State Department Report on
Trafficking in Persons that grades each country, elevated Sri
Lanka’s status in 2011, noting increased prosecutions of human
traffickers and more aggressive efforts by the government to protect
trafficking victims.
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Minister denies reports of Rizana’s execution
The reports published by a certain section of
the media on carrying out the death sentence on Sri Lankan housemaid
Rizana Nafeek by the Daw Admi High Courts in Saudi Arabia were
denied by Foreign Employment Promotion Minister Dilan Perera
yesterday.
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Police warn negligent trishaw drivers
The City Traffic Police has warned trishaw
drivers countrywide to refrain from overloading passengers following
a series of road accidents during the past two weeks due to the
negligence of trishaw drivers.
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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. 
