Troops, commandos contain prison riot
Inmates destroyed multiple buildings inside Mahara Prison.
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Inmates destroyed multiple buildings inside Mahara Prison.
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COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka on Tuesday launched an investigation into its deadliest prison riot in years after the death toll from clashes between rival drug…
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Swedfund has invested $15 million in Citizens Development Business Finance (CDB) to expand financing for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in…
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Colombo (AFP) -- Sri Lanka on Tuesday cut fuel prices by up to six percent, the first such move since the Middle East war triggered a surge in energy prices in…
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lanka began enforcing a ban on fast food and sweets in schools on Tuesday to tackle what the government says are rising cases of…
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Last month, Sri Lankan customs officials intercepted nine Chinese nationals attempting to smuggle used mobile phones and laptops
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Police in Sri Lanka arrested 152 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, on Friday for allegedly running a cyberscam operation out of a hotel in the island's…
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‘They wanted to bring two warplanes armed with eight anti-ship missiles.’
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Sri Lankan diaspora mark nationhood in the Philippines 78 years after winning independence from Britain in 1948.
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The page containing the referral to the chat site had been removed from 400,000 copies of the syllabus.
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Natural disasters caused an estimated $220 billion in global economic damages this year, according to the Swiss Re Institute (SRI). The figure represents a 33…
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The Department of Education (DepEd) on Saturday began releasing year-end incentives to teachers and non-teaching personnel across the country.
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‘This is a cemetery now. We don’t want to live in this village anymore.’
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Banda Aceh (AFP) — Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that…
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PADANG, Indonesia (AFP) — Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel on Monday to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000…
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'Heavy rains upstream are now flooding low-lying areas along the banks of the Kelani River.'
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COLOMBO (AFP ) — Sri Lanka made an appeal for international assistance on Saturday as the death toll from heavy rains and floods triggered by “Cyclone Ditwah”…
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COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka is investigating allegations that two elephants gifted by Thailand have been subjected to cruel treatment at their homes in Buddhist…
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