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Ten more Asian countries receives help from The Jack Ma, Alibaba Foundation
KUALA LUMPUR: The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have announced plans to donate much-needed medical supplies to 10 more countries in Asia to fuel the global fight against COVID-19. The governments of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar,
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Sri Lanka civil war: Rajapaksa says thousands missing are dead
Sri Lanka’s president has acknowledged for the first time that more than 20,000 people who disappeared during the country’s civil war are dead. Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the remark in a meeting with a UN envoy in the capital, Colombo. Steps
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Sri Lanka’s ‘Foundation of Goodness’ turns around a village decimated by tsunami
When Kushil Gunasekera returned to Seenigama in Sri Lanka’s Galle district days after it was wiped out by a massive tsunami on Dec 26, 2004, he got to work. Houses had collapsed, bodies floated in the sea water that had
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins Sri Lankan presidency, minorities rattled
Sri Lanka’s former civil wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa was declared the winner in the presidential election yesterday, after promising to secure the country against militant threats following Easter bombings this year. Rajapaksa, who will be sworn into office in
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Malaysia thrash Sri Lanka 4-0
SUBANG JAYA: The national under-18 team (U-18) stayed on the right track for the 2020 AFC U-19 football championship qualifiers by routing Sri Lanka 4-0 in a Tier 2 international friendly here today. Despite resting sensational striker Luqman Hakim Shamsudin,
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LTTE member detained in Sri Lanka, arms stockpile found
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka: Police have raided a safe house operated by a prominent Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) member in Ambalamkulam, recovering a haul of explosives and firearms last Friday. The 36-year-old LTTE member, Joseph Peter Robinson, has not
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BREAKING: X Seven suspected of promoting and supporting LTTE movement arrested
KUALA LUMPUR: Seven individuals, including two state assemblymen, were arrested today for alleged involvement in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), including promoting, supporting and channeling funds to the group and in possession of materials related to its cause.
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Floodlights go dark at Pakistan vs Sri Lanka match in Karachi
Floodlights stopped working and went completely dark at Sri Lanka vs Pakistan match in Karachi, leaving netizens in splits. It was an occasion to be remembered for all Pakistani cricket fans as the country celebrated the return of One Day
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UN: Sri Lankan laws applied discriminately
COLOMBO: A United Nations (UN) expert said on Friday some Sri Lankan laws are “frequently applied” in a discriminatory manner and urged the government to address the root causes of public protests by treating everyone equally. President Maithripala Sirisena’s government during its
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Anti-Muslim mobs riot despite curfew in Puttalam
COLOMBO: Mobs slashed to death a Sri Lankan Muslim man despite a nationwide curfew imposed on Monday (May 13) night after anti-Muslim riots spread to three districts north of the capital in a violent backlash against Easter suicide bombings. The 45-year-old
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