SRI LANKA: Right to Travel Under Threat from New Laws
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By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Oct 9 (IPS) – New laws dealing with foreign employment agents and migrant workers, Sri Lanka’s biggest foreign revenue earner, have stirred up a hornet’s nest and concerns over a fundamental issue – the freedom to travel.
"The fundamental freedom to travel [...]
SRI LANKA: With End of War, Media Shifts Focus
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Aug 12 (IPS) – The main news-pages in Sri Lanka these days are dominated by reports of clashes between two Muslim groups, the drama of two baby elephants separated from their mothers and government efforts to ban porn sites and curb adult-only movies. [...]
BLOW TO ATTEMPTS TO FORM NEO-LTTE
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO 548
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog
B.RAMAN
The post-Prabakaran attempts by some never-say-die sections of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora across the world to resurrect the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suffered a blow on August 6,2009, when the Malaysian security agencies handed over to their Sri Lankan [...]
