Thursday, 16th October 2014 Cricket legend Ian Botham takes his grandchildren to the island country with an enormous soul Ian Botham My initial impression of Sri Lanka? Hot. I first visited in 1982 – when Eng ...
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‘Low demographic growth main cause for labour deficit in West’
Thursday, 16th October 2014 Disna Mudalige Policies should be evolved to create a win-win situation for countries with a labour deficit and those with labour surplus, External Affairs Minister Prof G. L. Peiris said. ...
LANKA NEXT ASIAN TIGER! — UK FT
Thursday, 16th October 2014 GDP surged 175 percent to $ 67 b. Sri Lanka’s first US dollar-denominated mutual fund launched Sri Lanka is gearing itself to be Asia’s next tiger, only five years after ending the three d ...
Sri Lankan ICT Companies mark their presence at GITEX 2014 in Dubai
Six Sri Lankan Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Companies, namely Brandix I3 ((PVT) Ltd., hSenid Software International, Microimage Pvt. Ltd., Negete (Pvt.) Limited, Pyxle (Pvt) Ltd. and AP Lanka (Pvt) L ...
Ambassador Amunugama meets State Secretary for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany
The Ambassador of Sri Lanka for Germany, Karunatilaka Amunugama held a meeting with Hans Joachim Fuchtel, State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany in Berlin recently. The Ambass ...
Sri Lanka – the surfers’ new favourite
Sunday, 05th October 2014 The island that has everything.Green mountains, mist and chilliness in the morning.Burning hot beaches and large waves in the afternoon. Sri Lanka offers all this – in one single day. On a w ...
Media Statement
The Government of Sri Lanka has noted with concern the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 16th October, to annul the EU regulations proscribing the LTTE. The defendants of this case have been the Council and Commission of the European Union, together with two member states, the Netherlands and the UK.
Expectedly, the ECJ judgment requires in-depth study by all the defendant parties. It is noteworthy that the Court has stressed the annulments to be “on fundamentally procedural grounds” and “do not imply any substantive assessment of the question of the classification of the LTTE as a terrorist group.” Further it is observed from the decision of the ECJ that “the effects of the annulled measures are maintained temporarily in order to ensure the effectiveness of any possible future freezing of funds”.
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