Sri Lanka

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 .

Last fall I stayed up all night in Colombo, Sri Lanka, writing the manuscript for the Working for Yourself guide.

The special plane of Premier Wen particularly loaded the relief goods for the tsunami victims of Sri Lanka.

China appreciates the constant precious support from Sri Lanka on such questions as Taiwan, Tibet and human rights.

Sri Lanka's first four-star general, it seems, is in a dither.

'Wow, it's marvellous, ' said an army officer, who was on security duty in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.

Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper .

as such , we are planning to establish an english teaching centre in sri lanka to train as many novice monks as possible to meet the need.

The declaration was affirmed in Sri lanka at the 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

Wijesinghe's story is one of thousands repeated across Sri Lanka and in other countries.

Yang said China and Sri Lanka are friends of mutual trust as well as partners sharing weal and woe.

Sri Lanka outscores both with 8. 2 years of schooling and is on par with China's 99 per cent literacy rate for young female adults.

The rifle was also exported through the state-run NORINCO to Sri Lanka and some African countries.

Sri Lanka out scores both with 8. 2 years of schooling and is on par with China's 99 per cent literacy rate for young female adults.

Sri Lanka to tea is world renowned, starts at the tea cultivation in 1867 she became the origin of many top black tea.

A bomb attack on a police bus in the Sri Lanka capital, Colombo , has killed seven officers and two civilians.

The March 30 attack comes less than a month after gunmen ambushed Sri Lanka's visiting cricket team.

Sri Lanka's navy seized the 2 Sri Lankan-registered boats for illegal fishing off the country's eastern coast on Sunday.

They recommend the Hib vaccine for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

We also sent the donation of US$ 8. 7 million from the civilians to help build China-Sri Lanka Friendship village of.

That has only served to deepen India's fears that China intends to encircle it with ports strung from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka.

This scheme, initiated by Australia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), provided aid to countries in need of assistance.

Sri Lanka's president and prime minister also graciously received this young Chinese "High Sangha. "

Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said no American government agency had questioned him before his departure.

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His killers were from another Tamil militant group, in the pay of Sri Lanka's democratically elected government.

Monsoon clouds fill the sky at a beach south of Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.

All depends on whether Sri Lanka is penalized for failing to meet them.

Sri Lanka's ruling party, representing the Sinhalese majority, won nearly everywhere else.

The main instigators were Cuba, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, all of which strongly oppose an interventionist approach to human rights.

The trend continues this year, most notably with the flood crises in Australia, Brazil, and Sri Lanka.

This study focused on using new technology in outdoor advertising field between two Asian countries, China and Sri Lanka.

Even people of Indian origin in countries like Kenya, Thailand, Trinidad, Siam , Sri Lanka and Malaya.

Sri Lanka's leaders and the rebels must be warned that they could face prosecution for war crimes.

Sri Lanka's military victory over a 26-year long insurgency has come at a high cost to the nation's economy.

It's already listed, along with Sri Lanka, as a Conservation International hot spot.

For Beijing, the partnership with Sri Lanka offers secure access to the Indian Ocean through which most of China's oil passes.

In Sri Lanka, armed battles between Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamils have taken many lives on both sides.

Mr Wijesinghe, of Meewellawa village, in the dry northwest of Sri Lanka, used to dread his neighbours calling round.

In the meantime, Sri Lanka became the centre of the earlier Theravada order of Buddhism.

Sri Lanka's president made a visit to one stricken area earlier this week.

China also understands and supports efforts of the government of Sri Lanka in safeguarding national unity and territorial integrity.

Rice &Curry is the main food of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans enjoy some of the spiciest foods in the world.

Mrs Clinton and Mr Miliband issued a joint statement on Sri Lanka, following their talks in Washington.

Many villages around Sri Lanka are now coping with such post-conflict difficulties.

The Maldives, located southwest of Sri Lanka, has become a vocal campaigner in the battle to halt rising sea levels.

An official in Sri Lanka has appealed to families in the north to protect underage girls from sex traffickers.

In sand at seashores; sea level. Hainan [India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam].

Mr. Banbury says the WFP will be working with the governments of Indonesia and Sri Lanka to assess long-term needs.

Can we ignore the history of how Tamils were targeted, discriminated, and marginalized in Sri Lanka?

China is now the largest donor to Cambodia and Sri Lanka.

A family makes its way across the eastern seaport town of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, on July 5.

Sri Lanka will shift its visa issuance operations to the internet in the new year "as early as possible. "

A wide coral reef largely surrounds Sri Lanka's coastline making it ideal for diving.

I think India is playing a great game with China over Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and -- to an extent -- Nepal.

South Indian rulers attacked Sri Lanka on a number of occasions.

First introduced by Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and other countries spread to the southern sea.

The cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka began with heads bowed as play was delayed to remember the dead.

All ethnic groups in Sri Lanka preserve clear distinctions in the roles of the sexes.

IT IS too late to warn of a civilian slaughter in north-eastern Sri Lanka.

But Sri Lanka's optimists hoped the end of the war might herald a future so much brighter than that.

However, in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka, very few animal residents were found dead in the disaster.

Mahinda Rajapaksa was re-elected as Sri Lanka's president; his opponent was arrested soon after.

Its Asia Telecommunications unit, which covers Indonesia, Vietnam and Sri Lanka, made a loss before interest and taxes of HK$2. 69bn.

Gunmen also attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team on a bus in the downtown area several weeks ago.

Arrivals to Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives were also higher, but visitor numbers to India remained flat.

In Sri Lanka, a line of beachfront resorts and fishing villages was flattened.

Sri Lanka and Pakistan also defended their own internal security measures at the summit.

Other project leaders are from Britain, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica and Singapore.

AT A SPANKING new lingerie factory in Thulhiriya, a short drive from Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, senior managers wear T-shirts.

Later in the week that Navy group, carrying 24 helicopters is to move to the eastern coast of Sri Lanka.

In Sri Lanka, stilt fishing has become a very popular tradition that has been around for decades.

Patching up foreign ties and reconciliation with the aggrieved Tamils are the most important tasks facing Sri Lanka's rulers.

No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces - and, in Sri Lanka, journalism.

Buddhism is practiced by 70% of Sri Lanka's population and has greatly influenced the country's literature, art and architecture.

This year, we are going to have the 8th General Conference in Sri Lanka.

Red, blue color, white, yellow, green, pink . . . The colorful gem could find in Sri Lanka.

and 3. Find out the difficulties of using new technology in outdoor advertising field in both China and Sri Lanka.

Why don't we intervene in Sri Lanka, China, Zimbabwe, Congo, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain. . .

The oldest sapphire finds are in Ceylon, or Sri Lanka as it is known today.