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Fears grip Sri Lanka as Independent media faces the onslaught (TamilEelam News Service)
COLOMBO – Shock and outraged trunk into fear as the Independent media faces the government onslaught in Sri Lanka. Within 48 hours the Independent media suffered heavily in the Island Nation.
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SRI LANKA: Dengue deaths drop, but health officials urge more vigilance (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN Four years after Sri Lanka's worst outbreak of dengue fever, fewer people are dying of the mosquito-borne disease, but health officials caution that more public action is needed to prevent epidemics.
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Sri Lanka troops take more territory from Tigers in Jaffna: military (TODAYonline)
Sri Lanka's troops patrol along a road in the captured Tamil Tiger political capital of Kilinochchi on January 4. Troops have captured more territory from Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula, a day after the government reimposed a formal ban on the guerrillas, officials have said.
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SRI LANKA: World Bank housing project found wanting (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN When Typhoon Nisha lashed northern Sri Lanka in the last week of November 2008 it caused extensive damage to the roofs of thousands of newly constructed homes, forcing the World Bank to reassess the type of roofing used in its multi-million dollar housing projects.
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Sri Lanka hits Tigers again with ban and assaults (Tiscali)
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka hit the Tamil Tigers Wednesday with a terrorist designation it lifted as part of ill-fated 2002 truce, as soldiers pressured the separatists' last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula.
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Sri Lanka troops take more territory from Tigers in Jaffna: military (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Sri Lankan troops captured more territory from Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula Thursday, a day after the government reimposed a formal ban on the guerrillas, officials said.
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Sri Lanka Jan-Nov trade deficit widens to $5.5 bln (The Forex Market)
COLOMBO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's trade deficit for the first 11 months of 2008 widened nearly 65 percent to $5.5 billion, as imports of consumer goods and petroleum far outpaced exports, the central bank said on Wednesday.
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Committed to political solution: Sri Lanka (The Hindu)
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Thursday maintained that the government does not believe in a military solution to address the genuine grievances of the minority communities in the island nation and is firmly ...
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Indian espionage aircraft on recce mission over Sri Lanka - Paper (TamilNet)
A day after Sri Lanka Army occupied the town of Ki'linochchi, India's foreign intelligence agency and crucial adviser to the Government on foreign policy-making, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), was engaged in a "secret aerial surveillance mission across the Palk Straits" on Saturday according to a report in the Indian media. The report quoted sources who claimed that an aircraft "with ...
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Police: Private TV channel in Sri Lanka attacked (The New Sabah Times)
COLOMBO , Sri Lanka: Armed men attacked a private Sri Lankan television station early Tuesday, tossing hand grenades, spraying the building with gunfire and sparking a blaze that caused heavy damage, witnesses and police said.
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