Unfortunately, 2013 saw the Muslim community suffer from a targeted hate campaign waged by extreme Buddhist groups in Sri Lanka. Activities under the year’s hate campaign during the period January to July, 2013 started with the ‘halal certification’ issue...
TNA Provincial Council candidate P Thambirajah was attacked in Jaffna yesterday evening by a twelve-men group lead by the United People Freedom Alliance candidate Angajan Ramanathan. One of the suspect involved in the attack was Angajan’s father Ramanathan who went into hiding inside a Textile shop in the street.
A two day conference hosted by School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the International Bar Association, with the support of the Oak Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and in cooperation with the Wiener Library...
Hundreds arrived at the popular Valluvar Kottam in Chennai, India on Saturday, 17 August 2013 and joined in the protest organised by May Seventeen Movement calling for the rejection of the 13th Amendment and the proposed provincial council elections in the northern Sri Lanka.
The World Bank on Monday signed the financing agreement for a 200 million U.S. dollar concessionary loan to Sri Lanka to help upgrade health standards, the organization said in a statement.
The loan will be used to enhance the performance of the public health system and enable it to better respond to the challenges of a middle income country.
More than 70 representatives from 15 Commonwealth countries are currently in Sri Lanka on an advance visit to make preparations for their respective delegations for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013.
The delegations will tour the venue of the opening ceremony, the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre, conduct detailed walkthroughs of the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) – the site of the executive sessions and meetings – and visit Waters Edge, the location of the retreat. The teams will also visit both Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) to review the arrangements.
The lives of Burma's (Myanmar's) Tamil minority are in the centre of a 12-part weekly series launching on BBC Tamil radio on Sunday 18 August. "The Tamils Who Stayed Back In The Golden Land" (Thanga Mannil Thangiya Thamizhargal) explores the conditions in which Burma's ethnic Tamils live today and talks about their collective memory, their daily lives and their aspirations for their future in a changing Burma.
Burma's ethnic Tamils, whose number is unofficially estimated at half a million, are the descendants of Tamils from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They migrated to Burma during the days of the British Empire and worked in finance and trade as well as agriculture. The end of the British rule in Burma in 1948 led to a decline of the community's fortunes. In the 1960s, in the wake of the military rule, many were forced to leave Burma - but many also stayed back.
