All set for Victory Day celebrations

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Former S Lanka rebels ‘disappear’

Three Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels who took part in a rehabilitation ceremony may have been taken away by the authorities, a rights campaigner says....

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Radio Times poll provokes online battle for Baftas

Fierce opposition to al-Jazeera's Bahrain documentary generates a million votes

This year's Bafta award for the best current affairs television programme, to be awarded later this month, has provoked an international struggle to undermine the content of at least one of the four powerful documentaries on the shortlist – a film about the uprising in Bahrain last spring.

A fortnight ago the Radio Times magazine launched an online poll to allow readers to vote for their...

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Fears for S Lanka Tamil detainees

A key Tamil opposition politician in Sri Lanka says he fears for the safety of dozens of people arrested in a fresh round-up of Tamil Tiger suspects....

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Row over Sri Lanka ‘rebel’ flag

A row breaks out in Sri Lanka over the appearance of a flag associated with defeated Tamil Tiger militants at a May Day rally....

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Internet Society honours local scientist Tan Tin Wee

The Internet Society (ISOC) honoured one of Singapore's Internet pioneers, scientist Tan Tin Wee, 50. At ISOC's 20th anniversary celebration last Monday in Geneva, it inducted Associate Professor Tan into the Internet Society's Hall of Fame.

As I wrote in The Sunday Times on April 29, Prof Tan passionately believed that the Internet should be accessible to everyone, no matter what language they speak or write in. In the 1990s, he led a research team to invent a software that could...

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Visiting Indian Parl delegation to call on Lankan Prez today

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Repressive regime forced to release abducted activists

Protest in response and release of the two shows potential for united struggle

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The brutal government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is undoubtedly behind the abduction of two activists, Premakumar Gunaratnam and Dimuthu Attygalle of the Frontline Socialist Party. After three days of interrogation at some kind of camp to which they had both been taken separately, they were released yesterday. Dimuthu Attygalle was dropped by her captors from one of the infamous white vans, only when the Sri...

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Parl delegation to visit Sri Lanka from April 16-21

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South and Central Asia: Sinhala and Tamil New Year’s Greeting

Sinhala and Tamil New Year's Greeting
Press StatementHillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State Washington, DC
April 12, 2012

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to Sri Lankans around the world as you celebrate Sinhala and Tamil New Year.

This celebration brings people together to renew bonds of friendship and family. It also gives Sri Lankans of all backgrounds, living inside and outside the country, an opportunity to help build...

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