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| Senator to investigate Sri Lankan asylum seekers |
| 2013-11-07 |
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Senator Rhiannon is travelling to Sri Lanka with New Zealand and Malaysian MPs ahead of the meeting and will be reporting in Parliament on her return.
Senator Lee Rhinannon says she's planning to visit before next week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, or CHOGM, in Colombo on November 15.
She told Kerri Worthington she'll be travelling to various parts of the country and engaging with many of the locals.
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| Saudi amnesty: 15,000 illegal Lankan workers return home |
| 2013-11-07 |
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Around 15,000 illegal workers returned to Sri Lanka on an amnesty provided by the Saudi Arabian government, an official said today.
“Majority of the Sri Lankans qualified as illegal workers have been sent back,” the Sri Lankan Foreign Employment Bureau spokesman Mangala Randeniya told Khaleej Times.
“There are a few workers who have been left behind as they do not qualify under the criteria set out by the Saudi authorities, but we are working with Saudi officials to bring them back,” said Ran
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| UGC says holidays will be declared for internal university students |
| 2013-11-07 |
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The University Grants Commission says that holidays will be declared for all internal university students from November 9 - 17 in lieu of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
Chairman of the University Grants Commission, Kshanika Hirimburegama said that these steps were taken to incorporate students into the preparation for CHOGM.
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| Irrigation Minister poses pertinent questions to corporate leaders |
| 2013-11-07 |
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Irrigation and Water Resources Management Minister Tuesday while congratulating ‘Business Today’s’ Top Twenty Five award winners asked them some pertinent questions about their Corporate Social Responsibility in order to prevent them from being alienated from society.
Nimal Siripala de Silva said Corporate leaders often spoke about CSR responsibility, but he asked how sincerely they really paid attention to all those in their work force who had labored long hours to ensure that the companies got those awards.
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| A Man Is Being Tortured At Bandaragama Police Station Now – AHRC |
| 2013-11-06 |
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The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned from the wife of D.A. Ruwan Kumara (27) that he has been taken into police custody by officers of the Bandaragama Police Station and is being tortured. The wife, Chinthini Nadeesa and Ruwan Kumara’s brother have visited him at the police station and have seen him being tortured by some police officers who are keeping him at a location behind the police station.
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| SF Commander rejects TNA allegations |
| 2013-11-05 |
Jaffna Security Forces Commander Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe yesterday rejected allegations that the Military had bulldozed houses belonging to Tamil people in the Valikamam North, especially in the Punnalaikattuvan North area and were constructing houses for Security Forces personnel.
The SF commander was responding to news reports, emanating from the Jaffna Peninsula that the Security Forces personnel were continuing to forcibly demolish houses of Tamils, disobeying a directive from President Mahinda R
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| Govt urged to call out Sri Lankan crimes |
| 2013-11-05 |
Amnesty International and Sri Lankans living in New Zealand are urging the government to block Sri Lanka from chairing the Commonwealth until it properly investigates alleged war crimes.
The human rights group and Tamil representatives met MPs at parliament on Tuesday to express concerns about ongoing abuses, ahead of of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo later this month.
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| FTZ & GSEU writes to US, Aussie diplomats |
| 2013-11-05 |
The Secretary of the Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union (FTZ & GSEU) Anton Marcus has written to both the US Ambassador Michele J. Sison and Australian High Commission Robyn Mudie drawing their attention for an urgent humanitarian and special intervention to the conflict raging at Ansell Lanka (Pvt) Limited.
Marcus told The Island Financial Review that the US and Australian diplomats in Sri Lanka have been requested to intervene in bringing justice and fair play for workers at Ansell locate
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| Two more ministers want PM not to travel to Lanka for CHOGM |
| 2013-11-05 |
Minister of State in the PMO V. Narayanasamy and Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan came out openly to oppose the Prime Minister's visit, joining their Cabinet colleague G.K.Vasan.
"I have conveyed my opinion to the Prime Minister that he should not visit Sri Lanka," Narayanasamy told PTI.
Representing Pudducherry which has substantial Tamil population, he said majority of Congress ministers and MPs from Tamil Nadu do not want the Prime Minister to participate in the
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| Lanka hopes to attract foreign investment through CHOGM " |
| 2013-11-05 |
We set out to gain maximum benefit to the country from the historic event that is CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting)," Lankan External Affairs Minister G L Peiris told a gathering today in the central town of Kandy.
The biennial conference is to be held here between November 15 and 17.
Peiris said Sri Lanka has centred its focus on the Commonwealth Business Forum, a side-event.
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