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15 years after Lanka took control, Jaffna abuzz with activity HT, March 11. It was dusk when I checked into Bastion hotel in Jaffna. I had left Colombo at dawn... 
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China to loan Sri Lanka $290 mln for infrastructure Reuters, March 10. COLOMBO, March 10 - China has agreed to lend $290 million to Sri Lanka for a new airport and to revive the country's railway network, the island nation's foreign ministry said on Wednesday...
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CNN International reveals Sri Lanka’s civil war aftermath in a half-hour special, ‘Witness to Survival’ WNW, March 11. Sri Lanka's bloody civil war came to an end amongst some of the fiercest fighting, with both the government and the insurgents facing allegations of war crimes...
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China to build new international airport in Sri Lanka bbc, march 11. China is to lend Sri Lanka about $200m (£133m) to build a second international airport in the south of the island...
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Sri Lanka February tourist arrivals at 2-year high reuters, March 11. COLOMBO, March 10 - Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals jumped by nearly 70 percent in February compared to a year earlier to its highest level in over two years, boosted by the end of a 25-year war, the tourism board data showed on Wednesday...
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Indian team from Jaipur to help Sri Lanka amputees bbc, March 11. An Indian charity has sent a team to northern Sri Lanka to provide 1,000 amputees with artificial limbs...
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Sri Lankan Parliament reconvenes to extend emergency hindu, march 10. COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan Parliament, which had been dissolved, was reconvened for a short while on Tuesday to extend emergency laws by another month...
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Sri Lanka's ex-Army chief to be court martialed this week Xinhua, March 10. Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former Army chief General Sarath Fonseka will be produced before the Court Martial this week as the gathering of evidence has been concluded, the Army said on Tuesday...
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Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders IPS, march 10. COLOMBO, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara’s days are packed with chores...
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Dissolved Sri Lankan parliament reconvened to extend emergency Xinhua, March 10. Sri Lanka's parliament which was dissolved last month to face fresh elections came to be reconvened Tuesday for an one-shot session to extend the state of emergency...
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UN to press Sri Lanka for accountability Rediff, march 9. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that he will press ahead with setting up a special panel on accountability in Sri Lanka [ Images ], despite Colombo rejecting his proposal...
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S.Lanka's detained general 'ends hunger strike' afp, March 9. COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka ended a hunger strike after just one day when he was allowed to speak to his daughters, his party said Tuesday...
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S.Lanka approves emergency ahead of election SifyNews, March 09, 2010. Sri Lanka's outgoing parliament Tuesday approved the extension of a state of emergency until after next month's legislative elections, giving sweeping powers to police and troops...
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