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Most of the migrants trying to reach Australia this year are escaping fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

We don't have the opportunity to see many (or any) films from Sri Lanka, so In the Name of Buddha is a good opportunity.

Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, prepared to be sworn into office nearly a year after his election.

Sri Aurobindo did not wink an eye during the entire ten minutes I was watching him, he did not seem to belong to that impersonal setting.

In most villages in Sri Lanka, it was the practice to cook a little bit of extra food when preparing a meal.

Mathur and Rani Rasmani began to ascribe the mental ailment of Sri Ramakrishna in part, at least, to his observance of rigid continence.

On account of Sri Ramakrishna's indifferent health, Mathur appointed this man to the office of priest in the Kali temple.

MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE, Sri Lanka's president, shakes out his white outfit and spreads his bare toes with a satisfied air.

Norway had a torrid time trying to mediate between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government.

The main breadwinner in her family, she used to work for a very low wage at a tea factory in Sri Lanka.

Sri Bhagavan is now ready to introduce a series of very special processes to move the Oneness Community into higher states of consciousness.

It was a wonderful and sweet experience, Sri Aurobindo sitting in the chair and I was by the side of the photographer.

NEITHER Sri Lanka's government, nor the United Nations seems ready to back down over an increasingly bitter dispute.

China is ready to maintain coordination and cooperation with Sri Lanka on regional and international affairs, Hu said.

climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.

Australia announced that it was suspending its processing of asylum-seekers from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka for a few months.

Officials in Sri Lanka say at least 24 people have been killed in an explosion on a bus in the southeast of the country.

A Sri Lankan girl peeps from her window as the train rolls out from the railway station in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper, was shot dead on his way to work.

Sri Lanka's president since 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is evidently giving the matter some thought.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo , Ethiopia , Libya, Sri_ Lanka, Sudan and Vietnam .

A spokesman for the secretary general said he was seeking a Sri Lankan response to publish alongside a UN report on alleged war crimes.

James Elder, a spokesman for Unicef in Sri Lanka, calls the centre a genuine attempt to help child soldiers learn how to be civilians.

Maybe if she just knocked on the door a beautiful Sri Lankan boy would answer, and she'd lean down and whisper her story.

Sri Ramakrishna faced the east as he talked to his disciple and told him about the Knowledge of Brahman .

The rapid changes in Sri Lanka since the end of the civil war two years ago are raising concerns that sex trafficking there could increase.

As government spokesmen have pointed out, however, Sri Lanka's voters will at least have the chance to turf him out in six years' time.

Just as in peace processes from Northern Ireland to Sri Lanka, however, Nepal's politicians left the hardest parts to last.

In a couple of years, he said, the cost in China will be about $600, compared with around $200 in Sri Lanka.

SRI pioneers remain convinced that major, long-term investors like the pension funds will have to take ESG factors into account.

Previous research by SRI estimated that this arrangement could generate around one watt of power from normal walking.

Sri Lanka officials say there was no shipment scheduled to come in from North Korea.

This follows protests in the Tamil-majority Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where there has always been sympathy for fellow Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan military said it did not believe the Tamil Tigers, the island's separatist rebel movement, were involved.

That will require a political settlement in which the government of Sri Lanka seems to have little interest.

THE presidential election in Sri Lanka on January 26th should have been a cakewalk for the incumbent.

While sapphires are found in a few locations around the world, these "star" sapphires often originate in Sri Lanka.

Productivity growth in services has also outpaced that of industry in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians fled the last remaining patch of Sri Lanka controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Sri Sankaracharya explains that the student must be equipped with the four means of salvation.

WHO has appealed for 12. 5 million dollars to help Sri Lanka recover from the devastation of the tsunami over the next six months.

Third, it has given Sri Lankan Tamils no more than vague assurances that it will tackle the grievances that have stoked the conflict.

A pro-rebel website said the Sri Lankan army had suffered its heavy casualties during intense fighting.

But Sri Lanka says, with some justification, that this is more the result of the LTTE having been defeated earlier this year.

Since in their view the Sinhalese are the sole owners of Sri Lanka, and all minorities are alien to it, this was unacceptable.

The top UN aid official said the situation in the conflict zone in north-eastern Sri Lanka was "awful" .

For at least the past 2, 500 years of recorded mining history, beginning in present-day Sri Lanka, rubies have been important to mankind.

The Sri Lankan man who brought them in a tractor, has no idea whether his family is alive or not.

A few specimens from China have the long spikelet spines of this species, which is otherwise known only from Sri Lanka.

On another occasion, two years later, Sri Ramakrishna showed a similar sentiment for the poor and needy .

A prominent Sri Lankan journalist who campaigns for media freedom has been abducted and beaten up in the capital Colombo.

The attack comes as Sri Lanka's military closes in on what are believed to be the last of the rebel strongholds.

"What I see as the main challenge today is protecting the Sri Maha Bodi (or sacred fig tree) from macaques and monkeys, " the monk said.

Sri Lanka's parliament voted to allow the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to hold an unlimited number of terms instead of the current two.

The ship was heading to Sri Lanka from the United Arab Emirates when it was hijacked last Saturday.

Sri Ramakrishna did not feel well; so he decided not to bathe in the Ganges .

Even the Venerable Arahant Maha Mahinda, who introduced Dharma into Sri Lanka, used these stories to illustrate the truth of the teachings.

The Secretary-General on a tour of it (Saturday) said it was clear Sri Lanka does not have adequate resources to handle the situation alone.

The side shots, in which Sri Aurobindo's face is less prominent, are unproblematic, so we shall review these quickly.

I want you to travel with me to the following countries : Venezuela . Zimbabwe . Sri Lanka . Serbia . Peru . Paraguay . Bangladesh.

India extends large, soft loans to curry favour with a friendly regime in Bangladesh and is paying for post-war reconstruction in Sri Lanka.

And a tooth is hidden around the 4th century by a princess in the hair preserves the secret belt to Sri Lanka.

With Tzu Chi's help, 15 year-old Madushi from Sri Lanka is in Malacca, Malaysia to receive treatment for her scoliosis .

This morning Sri Prahlada took off the bandage on his right hand, and to our great relief it had healed properly.

But even half a century of Arthur C. Clarke has not been able to shake Sri Lankans' obsession with astrology.

Drawing by an 8-year old Sri Lankan girl as part of the annual European Commission competition to promote gender equality.

It had also noted the wise words and counsel of the Ambassador of Sri Lanka .

In India and Sri Lanka, restrictive labour laws have hamstrung the emergence of a more competitive manufacturing base.

Despite the presence of Muslim and Europeans, up to the 19th Century Sri Lanka women had kept exposing breast at home.

Somebody tell me that Sri Ramana just was a philosopher, how do you think about it?

In the clarity of his understanding, Sri Bhagavan also saw that material conditions were peripheral to the reality of human suffering.

Sri Lanka's army defied calls from foreign governments for a humanitarian pause in its campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels.

A young man dives off the wall of the Galle Fort into the Indian Ocean, in Galle, Sri Lanka on Aug.

He met Sri Amma and discovered that she had the same desire and intent.

Sri Lankan authorities reject the video as a fake and accuse the United Nations of bias and meddling in its state affairs.

In Botswana and South Africa, food accounts for a fifth of the consumer price index; in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh it accounts for two-thirds.

Indian strategists have been particularly worried by a string of ports constructed with Chinese assistance in Burma, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Listen to the sri qi so purple flame happy is to shake with her tail, on the jungle for treasure journey.

Nature gave Sri Lanka an average annual rainfall of an impressive 1, 700 mm, although dry areas can go for up to six months without water.

Kiribath is the closest Sri Lankan thing we have to a risotto. Made on special occasions, kiribath is a perennial favourite.

A suicide-bombing in the south of Sri Lanka, which killed at least 15 people, was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Sri Lanka's government has claimed that the rebels are no longer capable of launching air attacks.

Amid heavy security in the capital, Sri Lanka celebrated its 61 years of independence with military parades and flyovers of fighter jets.

India is also worried that China is attempting to extend its influence to Sri Lanka, a country that India has considered to be a close ally.

Sri Lanka this year tightly controlled media coverage of fighting that led to the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

In his words, there is no strong evidence that SRI is more infective than the best of conventional rice-growing methods.

WWF has been supporting farmer pilot projects in the "System of Rice Intensification" (SRI), a way of growing rice under dry conditions.

The Sri Lankan government has called on civilians trapped in territory held by the Tamil Tigers to move to a demarcated safe zone.

The bikes are just part of a huge infusion of donations, grants, investments and loans as China's presence in Sri Lanka explodes.

To spread his message to the four corners of the earth Sri Ramakrishna needed a strong instrument.

This was a huge reason in the death toll and because of the massive amount of population along the coast of India and Sri Lanka.

Besides China, the company has investments in Australia, South America, and Sri Lanka.

SUPERSTITIOUS man, Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, once had a popular astrologer arrested for foretelling his downfall.

ONE way Sri Lanka's government has bolstered its support among the country's ethnic-Sinhalese majority is by stoking anti-Western feelings.

Instead they rely on the close networks of rural Sri Lankan life to ensure that the small supply of energy is distributed equally.

Professor Pinker had a choice of ongoing conflicts while he worked on his book: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

Before leaving his native Sri Lanka, he was the export development manager for Lion Brewery Ceylon, the country's leading brewer.

The westward wave traveled across the Indian Ocean as swiftly as a jet plane, striking India and Sri Lanka.

India will go a long way to stop that from happening, and Sri Lanka appears willing to let India demonstrate an eagerness to please.

Nowadays scientists are not too far from it. The SRI institute uses electrochemical oxidation to make fuel from banana peels.

To know Sri AmmaBhagavan is also to understand the realm of possibility beyond the human condition.

A UN spokesman in Colombo said that the "bloodbath" feared in the so-called "no-fire zone" in north-eastern Sri Lanka had become a reality.

In the past, when natural disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck, China always provided timely assistance to Sri Lanka.

SRI LANKA was always a hard place for hacks; but by any standards, 20 years' jail is a harsh penalty for a newsman doing his job.

People sit on the edge of a lookout on the walls of a 16th century Dutch fort as the sun sets in Galle, Sri Lanka on July 8, 2009.

Dr Lee was in Sri Lanka on the second stage of a visit to two of the worst-affected countries in the disaster, arriving from Indonesia.

It seems unaware of quite how badly it has in the process besmirched Sri Lanka's reputation as a freedom-loving democracy.

Sri Ramakrishna, the God-man of modern India, was born at Kamarpukur.

Sri Lanka is an island of no great size, yet it has an extraordinary number of facets.

It then continued into Asia where it could be seen in the Maldives, southern India, parts of Sri Lanka, Myanmar and China.

The Tsunami which affected Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India brought massive human devastation as well as landscape destruction.

The stricken yacht had to be abandoned at sea and the couple will be dropped off by the carrier in Colombo , Sri Lanka.

Kishu Gomes is a business leader in Colombo and a former head of the Sri Lanka Chamber of Commerce.

In a sacred pool on the slopes of Mount Penanggungan, men bathe beside statues of Sri and Lakshmi, the consorts of the Hindu god Vishnu.

And by showing the true life of humble servant of Sri Krishna's holy names, you evoked eternal auspiciousness for humanity.

Sri Lankan soldiers are battling torrential downpours as well as the Tigers, outnumbered but resilient.

Others however, have welcomed plans to use the wreckage of the train as a memorial for Sri Lanka's 41, 000 dead in the disaster.

A week earlier, to oblige Mr Rudd, Indonesia's navy intercepted a boat with 250-odd Sri Lankans heading for Australia.

There's a perception of corruption in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and Nepal have had high civil conflict.

Commonly cultivated. Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan [native to S India and Sri Lanka; introduced elsewhere as a crop plant].

Less than a month before, a similar group had brazenly attacked a bus carrying the Sri Lankan national cricket team in Lahore.

They were assisted by police in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Fiji. Several hundreds of suspects were arrested.

When strolls the Sri Lankan downtown, the feeling which with puts on the male female who sarong brushes past to be really good!

To stave off defeat, they held tens of thousands of civilians as human shields in their shrinking corner of northern Sri Lanka.

According to the Sri Lankan ministry of defence, its forces continue to advance into the last remaining stronghold of the LTTE.

From hosting Sri Lanka's National Day celebration, I learned so much from the artists and diplomats from Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan pundits are calling this violence "Eelam War IV" : the fourth round in the struggle for an Eelam, or independent Tamil homeland.

Take suicide bombing, which child soldiers have carried out in the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya.

the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka; one of the largest harbors in the world; located on the western coast of the island.

NO ONE talks peace while waging war better than Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels.

Damp places in shade. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam; Australia].

A suicide blast occurred opposite the Sri Lanka Air force office near Trans Asia Hotel in Colombo a while ago.

Speaking for myself, I feel that Sri Aurobindo's last portrait has a unique power of spiritual healing.

Today, inside the fence, Sampur is being cleared for a 500MW coal-powered plant in a joint venture between India and Sri Lanka.

Comparing with that posted by Suiyu, the latter are the ruby and sapphire from Burma, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is embroiled in an unending civil war, with the Tamil Tigers carrying out endless suicide bombings.

Through a Buddhist in Sri Lanka, we managed to redevelop it in Singapore.

The president spoke Thursday as Sri Lanka celebrated the anniversary of the country's independence.

It has meddled in Nepal's politics, and in the early stages of Sri Lanka's civil war it backed Tamil guerrillas.

Countries including China, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are intensively seeking to commercialise nanotechnology.

The two families will return to Sri Lanka in a week's time, and they share a very close bond.

The LTTE is fighting for a homeland in northeastern Sri Lanka for the nation's ethnic Tamil minority.

The Sri Lankan government is willing to work together with China to consolidate and deepen the traditional friendship.

Socially responsible investing, typically a small corner of the fund world, is starting to attract mainstream attention in the US.

Described are the lightening design and finite element analysis of the car body steel structure for Sri Lanka motor cars.

The biggest tranche, however, continues to come from 'New Commonwealth' countries such India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Thus all directions will be conquered by a flood of transcendental ecstasy flowing with the excessive mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

A military spokesman said that shortly after the bombing, Sri Lanka's air force chased two rebel light aircraft and shot down one of them.

The United People's Freedom Alliance, Sri Lanka's governing coalition, won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.

Capturing wild elephants is not allowed in Sri Lanka, although the government has allowed some to be captured and tamed for special reasons.

We believe he is on a crusade of his own to force a war crime inquiry against Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has been seeking a two billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund to help its economy.

and that it must go beyond the limits of Sri Lanka's existing "unitary" constitution.

Terrorists struck at the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore , leading other cricketing countries to cancel future engagements in Pakistan.

Sandalwood is currently naturalised and distributed in South India, Sri Lanka, the Malay Archipelago, Northern Australia, China and Taiwan.

Sri Lankan-born Raj Rajaratnam was for a time worth more than 1 billion dollars, a prominent hedge fund boss.

Staffordshire woman is saving hundreds of dogs on the streets of Sri Lanka through a charity called Little Bo.

According to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Indian rupee is not among the 13 other foreign currency transactions permitted in Sri Lanka.

It was a text file maintained by SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Presently Sri Ramakrishna received the command of the Divine Mother to remain on the threshold of relative consciousness.

Famed Indian guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba died of respiratory failure on Sunday at the age of 85.

Kulkarni Cyril Graphics is a respected representative of Goss International and has many customers throughout India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

It has suffered savage terrorist attacks on a police academy and the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team.

Shipment to be effected from China for transportation to Colombo, Sri Lanka not later than May.

Another Sri Lankan man was able to warn people of the tsunami even before the waves hit.

The group is also helping rebuild a pediatric hospital in Sri Lanka that was destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami in two thousand five.

For approximately 90 years Russia and Sri Lanka were the only know sources of Alexandrite .

Elsewhere, violence is breaking out in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, both of which are struggling with inflation of about 20 per cent.

That means normality in northern Sri Lanka is still a very long way away.

Soon afterwards, about a new disciple in France who asks for a photograph of Sri Aurobindo.

The Sri Lankan army says it has launched the final assault on Tamil Tiger positions in the coastal strip they still hold.

Sri Lanka's Army says it has the Tigers surrounded on three sides, with the Navy patrolling the fourth side, the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka's government rejected calls from the rebel Tamil Tigers for a ceasefire to allow peace talks.

In 1955, Premier Zhou Enlai presented a pair of Xiashi colored lanterns to visiting guests from Sri Lanka.

One Indian friend had the idea that Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Indian and Pakistan should all be in some kind of federation.

In Sri Lanka both news-stand and subscription copies with coverage of the country may be confiscated at customs.

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Market participants consider Sri Mulyani to be a key figure in Indonesia's economic recovery after the 2008 global economic slowdown.

Under emergency law, the Sri Lankan authorities can arrest without trial any person suspected of involvement in terrorist activities.

Ragiv's leadership was tested in 1987, India became involved in one of the most violent separatist struggles by the Tamils of Sri Lanka.

Several thousand civilians fled fighting in the shrinking patch of northern Sri Lanka controlled by the rebel Tamil Tigers.

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality has leapt in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and China.

SRI policy researcher Erika Gaylor says doctors can easily try to get parents to set regular bed times.

Swamps, shallow water, rice fields. SW Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa].

Thai officials say the plane was due to fly next to Sri Lanka, but Sri Lankan officials say they had no knowledge of the flight.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati is Managing Director of the World Bank Group and a former finance minister of Indonesia.

So that God, each of an, one feasible method that everyone can be far Bumiu St. , near non-rebellious king, Sri Lanka could be ear.

This week, U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon sent his top aide to press for an end to the Sri Lankan conflict.

She now became to Sri Ramakrishna the only Reality, and the world became an unsubstantial shadow.

The European Union suspended the preferential trade terms it has offered Sri Lanka over the government's human-rights record.

The European Union is warning that unless Sri Lanka quickly declares a cease-fire, it will have to rethink its aid and trade.

Whatever critics say, the fruits of Mr Rajapaksa's friendship with Beijing can be seen everywhere in Sri Lanka.

I may someday return to Sri Lanka to see my Bong-Soon!

The agency also says Switzerland, Malaysia and Canada lead the list of the top 10 countries hosting Sri Lanka asylum seekers.

The civil actions are by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extrajudicial killings during the Sri Lankan civil war.

They include Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan in Asia, as well as Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda in sub-Saharan Africa.

Thus, Sri Lanka, which means Country of Light is now shining more brightly than ever!

Others destined to be monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna came to Dakshineswar.

This week the European Commission adopted a report accusing Sri Lanka of flouting human-rights standards.

We have to examine potential legal and non-tariff barriers for the export of services from Sri Lanka.

Diplomats, recognising the risk journalists face in Sri Lanka, have offered me safe passage and the right of residence in their countries.

Conservation experts say a Tamil Tiger bomb attack on Sri Lanka's sacred Buddhist temple accidentally uncovered priceless murals.

Gunmen in Lahore, in Pakistan's Punjab province, attacked a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team to an international match.

But the government's crushing military victory in May has given Sri Lanka its best chance of peace since the war started in 1983.

The Sri Lankan military was accused of bombing and shelling areas in the safe zone including hospitals, an allegation its commanders denied.

European Union nations this morning called for an independent war crimes investigation into the killing of civilians in Sri Lanka.

In the first part, I make the war as a starting point, and describe the situation of Sri Lanka which suffer the civil war.

Co-authors on the papers include colleagues at Chungbuk National University in South Korea and SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.

Political unrest in Fiji, Sri Lanka and Thailand were also "important reasons for negative actions on sovereign ratings" , S& P said.

Two Bangkok-based jewelers, Lily Art and S. T. Diamond, say that most of their sapphires come from Sri Lanka.

' He regaled friends with stories of his upbringing, including how his family had to dodge bullets during Sri Lanka's civil war.

All the teas are sourced from China, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Japan and the herbal infusions are from the oldest tea merchant in Germany.

Beijing is a more significant trade partner for every country in Asia, except for Nepal and Sri Lanka.

37 Chinese fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan navy over the weekend have been freed.

As in other ethnic conflicts, from Palestine to Northern Ireland, the solution to Sri Lanka's conflict seems obvious.

China has a defence co-operation agreement with Bangladesh, and has offered assistance to governments in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar.

Even war-ravaged Sri Lanka recently named China as the key to reviving its beleaguered travel industry.

"The challenge for SRI funds is to become as mainstream as corporate social responsibility, " he adds.

The Sri Lankan team was an obvious target.

Evacuation orders were also issued in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Burma through TV, radio, and mobile phone text messaging.

Later this morning Sri Prahlada and I, with one other devotee, went into Baku to find a park to chant our rounds.

Balinese make rice offerings to the household gods each morning, and to the rice goddess Dewi Sri during the crop cycle.

The island of Sri Lanka, lies within the Indian Ocean, with the Bay of Bengal to the northeast.

Scientists from Sri Lanka and Germany have developed a new method to measure biodiversity, and say it could help identify key tree species.

Russia has bought 71 tonnes of gold this year, while there have been small purchases by Mauritius, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

The footage was allegedly filmed in January during the final stages of Sri Lanka's bloody war with Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sri Lanka says the loss of the privileges could cost tens of thousands of jobs in its garment industry.

Such an aircraft could not have landed in any of Sri Lanka's airports without prior authorization, officials in Colombo said.

The Sri Lankan government is pressing its military campaign against the Tamil Tiger rebels in the region.

Civil war is reigniting in Sri Lanka and intensifying in Afghanistan and Somalia, while conflict continues in Colombia.

The price of rice, Asia's staple, dropped two percent in Cambodia and Sri Lanka, and about half a percent in Bangladesh, it says.

Moreover, the co-workers Sri Lankan friend volunteered to act as interpreter during the project.

I got a new inquiry for the Billiard tables for Sri-Lanka as attached.

Though this species was once common, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and South Africa are now among its last refuges in the Indian Ocean.

Adrift in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Cocos Keeling Islands lie halfway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

Its members proceeded to vote down a proposed resolution decrying the Sri Lankan government's disregard for civilian life.

White vans hold a particular terror in Sri Lanka, where they are associated with the abduction of thousands of people by death squads.

Jayantha Dhanapala is a former ambassador of Sri Lanka and a former U. N. under-secretary-general for disarmament affairs.

Sri Lankan troops captured Elephant Pass, another stronghold of Tamil Tiger rebels in the Jaffna peninsula last Friday.

Sri Lanka has callously ignored calls for a humanitarian cease-fire.

Both sides also exchanged opinions on boosting China-Sri Lanka exchanges and cooperation in such areas as culture, education and tourism.

However, Sri Lanka's decision to allow the currency highlights its strengthening relationship with China.

Sri Lanka, rich in spirituality and famous for its Ceylon tea, is a small island country in the Indian Ocean, south of India.

Fonterra wants to replicate in India its experiences of developing dairy farms in countries like China and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka produces numerous skilled workers but has difficulties providing the working conditions to keep them.

The finding could mean Sri Lanka lose its preferential trade tariffs in its biggest market.

Still, he says Jet will refocus on cutting costs and expanding in less-competitive markets of Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is a friendly neighbor of China and both countries have been friends in adversity in history.

Chinese delegates signed Cooperation Intention with Sri Lanka President .

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that his clear victory in Tuesday's presidential elections has answered his critics.