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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sri Lanka Source.com http://www.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/10/id/303b19022816233b/ en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:24 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:24 -0400 30 A Melbourne brothel-keeper who in 2006 became the first person in Australia convicted of possessing sex slaves Thursday lost her appeal against her 10-year jail sentence. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399944/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:22 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399944/cs/1/ Cunningly disguised as a toy, a new medical device can distract infant burns victims from excruciating pain. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399933/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:10 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399933/cs/1/ Investigations began Thursday into the mid-air collision in which Indian trainee pilot Akash Ananth died after the wing of his Cessna 150 was clipped by another plane and he crashed in the populated Cheltenham suburb of Melbourne. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399931/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:05 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399931/cs/1/ Young Australians tend to exercise their democratic choice by blogging or taking part in a protest rally, rather than voting or joining a political party. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399835/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:01:43 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399835/cs/1/ New Delhi, Aug 28 : India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Thursday successfully concluded six years of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) at Singapore. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400118/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:00:10 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400118/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug.28 : Pakistan's key coalition leadersAsif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif exchanged views about the presidential elections here today. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400075/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:36 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400075/cs/1/ New Delhi, Aug 28 : Nepal Minister for Foreign Affairs Upendra Yadav arrived here today to attend a meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400070/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:23 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400070/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug.28 : At least eight people have been killed and several others injured when a police van was blown up with explosives near Karam bridge in Bannu on Thursday. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400065/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:13 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400065/cs/1/ New Delhi, Aug 28 : The 9th Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will be held at Dhaka on August 30-31. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400047/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:26 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400047/cs/1/ Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Indian technical team today estimated around Rs 5.25 billion cost for reconstructing the embankment breached by the Saptakoshi River. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400018/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:02:14 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400018/cs/1/ Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Nepal's Prime Minister Prachanda today said that he will initiate the process to expand his cabinet by inducting the ministers from Unified Marxist Leninist (UML). http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400014/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:02:02 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400014/cs/1/ Kathmandu, Aug 28 : The Central Natural Disaster Rescue Committee (CNDRC) is meeting at Singha durbar today to formulate the plans for the reconstruction of breached Saptakoshi embankment, rehabilitation of the displaced and reconstruction of the damaged Highway. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400011/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:01:55 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/400011/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 28 : After the leakage of the email from US State Department Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Affairs Richard Boucher to US ambassador in London Zalmay Khalilzad questioning him over his telephonic talks with Pakistan presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari, the long-running turf war between the State Department's South Asia bureaucracy and those with links to the White House and the US Vice-President's Office has come out in the open. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399979/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:30 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399979/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 28 : Following media reports that Pak-American 'terror suspect' Dr Aafia Siddiqui's health was worsening by the day inside the US federal prison where she is being held for almost a month, Pakistan has officially conveyed its concerns to the US Government regarding her well-being. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399954/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:42 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399954/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 28 : US immigrants from India and Pakistan take on the habits of their adopted country, escalating their risks of prostate and breast, shows a team of researchers at West Virginia University. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399942/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:21 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399942/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 28 : PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has said that now since he had moved out of the PPP-led federal coalition, his party would sit in the Opposition if the country's Prime Minister Gilani obtained a fresh vote of confidence, and would vote against it. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399923/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:44 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399923/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug 28 : After nearly five months since the new federal government assumed power in Islamabad, the PPP last evening finally conceded that the Nov 3 "unconstitutional" steps taken by former president Pervez Musharraf had been validated by the Supreme Court, and that the National Assembly could not reverse them. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399906/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:02 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399906/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug 28 : A key ruling federal coalition partner in Islamabad, ANP chief Asfandyar Wali has reportedly said that former president Pervez Musharraf was unlikely to be tried in any court of law and was expected to go out of the country soon. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399862/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:00:40 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399862/cs/1/ Karachi, Aug 28 : In a startling revelation, two separate studies conducted by faculty and students at the Aga Khan University in Karachi have found that around 15 percent of the people supported suicide bombing, and said that Islam and other religions supported it. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399825/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:54 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399825/cs/1/ Karachi, Aug 28 : The CNG (compressed natural gas) is sold in Pakistan at more than double the rate of what it is sold at in India, despite the fact that the former is a producer of the fuel and the latter is an importer, said Sindh Bar Council's (SBC) Human Rights Committee chairman, Adv Aqil Lodhi in a press statement. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399823/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:50 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399823/cs/1/ Lahore, Aug 28 : Bookies in Pakistan are putting their bet on PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the country's next president. They declared him as the people's "favourite" candidate for the highest post of the country. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399820/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:44 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399820/cs/1/ Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Nepal's Supreme Court is expected to announce its verdict in the case of 'Bikni Killer' Charles Sobhraj, the criminal mastermind serving life term in Kathmandu''s Central Jail. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399818/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:40 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399818/cs/1/ Kathmandu, August 27 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Wednesday said he would go to India for his first political visit after taking charge of the PM office. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399748/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:02 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399748/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug 28 : Pakistan would not be able to get civilian reactors from the West, which would in fact bring along nuclear acceptance from the World community, until its Army controlled its nuclear arms, said a report in the Financial Times on the basis of opinion of a host of Western diplomats. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399953/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:39 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399953/cs/1/ Many of the sanctuaries for coral reefs in the Indian Ocean are unable to protect the reefs from the worst of climate change, a team of international scientists has warned. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399829/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:01:21 -0400 Sri Lanka Source.com http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399829/cs/1/ By Shawn W Crispin BANGKOK - A tense political standoff between anti-government protesters and Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej continued on Thursday, with thousands of demonstrators refus... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281350/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:44 -0400 Asia Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281350/ PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people, as fighting between security forces and extremists... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281369/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:03:41 -0400 New Jersey Online http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281369/ The lawyers were joined by political party workers and other supporters carrying black flags as they blocked key roads for two hours, shouting slogans demanding the reinstatement. In the capital, http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280314/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:21 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280314/ Afghan security forces have begun taking over command of the capital, Kabul, from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). With this, the security operation in the capital will be... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281333/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:23:09 -0400 BBC http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281333/ , referring to a pending resolution by the provincial government of South Cotabato, where Tampakan is located, which calls for a ban on open-pit mining. "We're with them on their environmental conce... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17279722/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:29 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17279722/ BANGKOK, Thailand - Thousands of demonstrators, some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks, defied a court order to end their occupation of the prime minister's office compound on Thursday, ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281005/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:26:13 -0400 MSNBC http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281005/ and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states. "And I hope it will serve as a serious signal to those who try to turn black into white and justify this aggression," he said in the Tajik capital of http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281082/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:19 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281082/ August 28, 2008 · In Bangkok, Thailand, anti-government protesters are still occupying the grounds of the prime minister's office. For a third straight day, the demonstrators are demanding his ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281383/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:48:03 -0400 NPR http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281383/ 10 people have been killed in a car bomb attack on a police van in northwest Pakistan as Taliban-inspired violence threatens to exacerbate ongoing political instability. A remote controlled bomb plac... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281365/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:50:04 -0400 RTE http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281365/ KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepalese police detained dozens of Tibetan exiles protesting in front of the Chinese diplomatic mission in Katmandu on Thursday. Police official Ramesh Thapa said more than 120 ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281075/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:43:46 -0400 Find Law http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281075/ MANILA - The Philippines has a lower incidence of HIV than most of its neighbours despite sharing many of the risks, but health officials warned on Thursday that many new cases were now coming to ligh... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281327/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:58:54 -0400 Khaleej Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281327/ government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF, rebels both asked for the 12 soldiers to remain in place while the Supreme Court deliberates over a proposed land rights pact, it said. "Th... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281337/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:27 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281337/ By Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene Central banks were created to manage liquidity with fiat money, to preserve the value of their currency and to safeguard the stability of their national... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281355/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:35 -0400 Asia Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281355/ Singapore - A Singapore tycoon, who pleaded guilty to two counts of illegally attempting to purchasing a kidney from an Indonesian is too sick to survive in prison, said his attorney Thursday. Attorne... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280339/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:38:46 -0400 Earth Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280339/ Vietnam closely follows situations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and supports settlement of international disputes via peaceful solutions, a spokesman for Vietnam's foreign ministry said Thursday. &q... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281372/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:41:55 -0400 People's Daily http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281372/ East Timor plans to build a massive $390 million power station, which would be the largest project built in the country, where power blackouts are frequent and many areas lack access to the electricit... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280408/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:02:21 -0400 Neftegaz http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280408/ (AFP)--Vietnam's communist authorities have moved to end a standoff with hundreds of Catholics who have protested this month for the return of church land taken in the 1950s, state media reported Th... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280290/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:45:13 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280290/ The group's Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned what he called " illegitimate acts conducted by wayward elements" of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF. Two renegade MILF comman... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281341/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:53 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281341/ DHAKA: A baby boy born with two heads in southwestern Bangladesh died after his parents decided to take him home because they could not afford adequate medical care, a doctor said on Thursday. T... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281391/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:29:20 -0400 Times of India http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281391/ Bangkok - Thailand's exports hit a record high of about 17 billion US dollars in July, but the month still saw a trade deficit with imports hitting about 18 billion dollars, the Fiscal Policy Office s... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281356/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:38:47 -0400 Earth Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281356/ Islamabad, Aug 28 : Seven people, most of them law enforcement officers, were killed Thursday when a roadside bomb hit their bus in Pakistan's restive North-West Frontier Province, officials said. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280306/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:47:42 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280306/ Colombo - More than 250 trainee soldiers came down Thursday with food poisoning in eastern Sri Lanka after eating bread and fish, a medical officer in the area said. Some of the trainees fainted and s... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280167/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:38:47 -0400 Earth Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280167/ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : A car bomb apparently planted by Taliban insurgents blew up a police bus in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least six policemen, security officials said. The bombing ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280299/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:19:44 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280299/ KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia has blocked access to a popular news Web site that often runs afoul of authorities for its sensational political reporting, sparking complaints Thursday that th... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281384/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:42:27 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281384/ Compton Provides Mid-Year Reserve Update and Operations Review and Bois d'Arc Energy, Inc. and Stone Energy Corporation Announce Stockholders Vote to Approve Merger http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17279827/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:41 -0400 Financial News USA http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17279827/ Punishing Russia could prove costly By Mikhail Molchanov On the eve of his visit to Ukraine, David Miliband, Britain's foreign secretary, said he wanted to forge "the widest possible coalition a... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281348/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:46 -0400 Asia Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281348/ Thousands of protesters in Thailand are still occupying the government's main compound in Bangkok Thursday, despite a court order to leave. A civil court issued a ruling Wednesday at the government's ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281392/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:57:53 -0400 VOA http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281392/ Colombo, Aug 28 : At least 36 Tamil Tiger rebels and five soldiers were killed in fighting in northern Sri Lanka as troops further expanded their area of control, military officials said Thursday. http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281379/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:47:48 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281379/ (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, right, and his wife Wan Azizah arrive at Parliament house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Anwar took his place Thu... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281393/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:08 -0400 Examiner http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281393/ By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Iran could emerge as a big winner, at least in the short term, from the rapidly escalating tensions between the United States and Russia over Moscow's intervention in G... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281349/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:47 -0400 Asia Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281349/ LAHORE, 28 August 2008 (IRIN) - Rubina Aslam, 30, cannot read or write. She has never been to school, but considers herself "fortunate to be married to a man who earns nearly 20,000 rupees (approx US$... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281364/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:43:42 -0400 IRIN http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281364/ ISLAMABAD, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The nomination papers of three presidential candidates, including Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former Prime Minister... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281399/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:50:45 -0400 Breitbart http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281399/ KUNCHANGONE, 28 August 2008 (IRIN) - For 42-year-old Than Than and her husband, making ends meet has never been harder.Their main source of livelihood took a direct hit when Cyclone Nargis struck Myan... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281363/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:43:46 -0400 IRIN http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281363/ India clinched its first-ever one-day international series in Sri Lanka by winning the fourth match by 46 runs Wednesday to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series.Choosing to bat after winning the... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281360/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:42:13 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281360/ -(Dow Jones)- Pakistan's stock market regulator will review the floor imposed on the stock market on Wednesday in the next 10 to 12 days, an executive of the Securities Exchange Commission said Thur... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281338/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:45:35 -0400 Morning Star http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281338/ By Stella Gonzales MANILA - About 100 people have been killed or injured and more than 130,000 others displaced since hostilities resumed this month between government troops and Moro Islamic L... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281353/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:39 -0400 Asia Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281353/ SEOUL, South Korea - Stocks in Asia finished mixed Thursday as Japan's key index rose and Chinese shares snapped a five-day losing streak while markets in Hong Kong and India fell. Japan's benchm... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281132/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:24:22 -0400 C News http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281132/ Tensions have turned up a notch in Thailand's political crisis that is threatening to bring down the government. As of 5:00 p.m. Aug. 28, Thailand time, police were lined out outside the rear gates of... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281331/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:12:58 -0400 The Epoch Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281331/ Columbia Pacific said it’s raised $135 million in a second round of financing for its Asian hospital construction fund. The fund, Columbia Asia, has raised a total of $325 million, according to... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280887/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:33:56 -0400 Business Journal http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280887/ The airline would deploy a 37-seater Dash-8-100 aircraft for the sector. It would be the second private airline from Bangladesh, after GMG Airline, to operate between Dhaka and Kolkata. United Airway... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17279988/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:15:40 -0400 Business Standard http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17279988/ PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ― Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281329/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:12:16 -0400 CBS 5 http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281329/ Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom (UK), the Duke of York, will visit Vietnam from Sept. 7-10, aimed at helping boost friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries, a spokesman for the... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281373/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:41:56 -0400 People's Daily http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281373/ Imran Ahmed Wani - 10 days before his death Imran recently quit his job as a field officer with a mobile telephone service company to work as a building contractor in his hometown, Srinagar, which h... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281334/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:23:07 -0400 BBC http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281334/ Islamabad - At least 13 people, including police officers, were killed on Thursday in a suspected suicide attack on a van carrying prisoners in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Provinces, media ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281326/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:58:47 -0400 Khaleej Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281326/ Bangkok: Thai protesters continued to occupy the compound of the prime minister’s office on Thursday, defying a court order to end their protest. Dozens of members of the People’s Alliance... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280992/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:11:52 -0400 Gulf News http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280992/ Six army officers sentenced to hang or life in jail in Bangladesh for the prison murders of four politicians over 30 years ago have been acquitted by the high court, officials said on Thursday. A ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281345/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:30:53 -0400 One News http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281345/ Pakistan's Sindh Province Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali (l) administrates oath from reappointed judges at a ceremony in Governor House in Karachi, 27 Aug 2008 http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281097/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:57:52 -0400 VOA http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281097/ Singapore, Aug 28 : India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations today concluded a Free Trade Agreement after some six years of negotiation for a pact that combines a market of 1.7 billion peo... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281381/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:47:46 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281381/ Islamabad - Pakistani lawyers, backed by human rights activists and political workers, staged countrywide sit-ins Thursday to press the government to reinstate dozens of senior judges sacked by former... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280340/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:38:57 -0400 Earth Times http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280340/ A member of Pakistan's Muslim League-N party joins the demonstration in Rawalpindi by lawyers demanding the government reinstates sacked judges. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP Fierce fighting between m... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280986/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:41:32 -0400 The Guardian http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17280986/ DUSHANBE, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - China and the other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) voiced their support on Thursday for Russia's actions in Georgia and South Ossetia fo... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281066/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:41:37 -0400 Russian Information Agency http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17281066/ August 28, 2008, 08:45 Vietnam will spend nearly $145 million between now and 2010 to build dykes and relocate thousands of rice farmers because of heavy seasonal flooding in its fertile Mekong river ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276770/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:11:17 -0400 SABC http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276770/ Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276752/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:33:16 -0400 The News Tribune http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276752/ Malaysia's leading opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim has been sworn in, taking his parliamentary seat after a decade-long absence following convictions for sodomy and corruption. Mr Anwar won a sweepin... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276748/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:56:17 -0400 ABC Australia http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276748/ Though both are technology companies, Unisteel, a disc drive component maker, operates more of a niche business than Amtek. Amtek is one of the largest metal stamping companies in Singapore. Its metal... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17275836/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:58:45 -0400 CNBC http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17275836/ INDONESIA'S armed forces chief today dismissed a US federal court judge's ruling that ExxonMobil must face a lawsuit over alleged killings and torture by troops in Aceh province. General Djoko Santo... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276551/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:42:38 -0400 News.com.au http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276551/ By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Aug 28 : As Nepal's Natural Disaster Mitigation Committee began talks under the leadership of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda in the capital Thursday on how ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276759/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:07:58 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276759/ Dhaka, Aug 28 : The tide seems to be turning in Bangladesh. Scores of politicians, officials and businessmen jailed for many months, mostly on corruption charges, are starting to get bail with the cou... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276147/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:08:07 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276147/ Anti-government protesters in Thailand have formed a human chain around their leaders, fearing they will be arrested for the takeover of the prime minister’s office compound.Deputy Police Chief Lieu... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276764/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:57:44 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276764/ Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took his place today as a member of Malaysia’s Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple a government weakened by electoral defeats and internal dissent.Mr Anwar... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276765/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:57:46 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276765/ Geologists have discovered at least 20 new basins, the Indonesian Business daily quoted secretary general of Indonesian Geologists' Association Ridwan Djamaludin as saying.According to a 1985 mapping,... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276757/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:08:22 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276757/ The World Food Programme airlift to Myanmar was closed earlier this week. The airlift allowed emergency aid goods to get through quickly to the devastated Irrawaddy delta. Cyclone Nargis caused heavy ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276771/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:10:27 -0400 Radio Netherlands http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276771/ By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Indian ayurvedic medicine giant Dabur, whose Nepal subsidiary faced Maoists' wrath for sponsoring the country's biggest beauty pageant Miss Nepal, is now facing... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276758/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:08:10 -0400 New Kerala http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276758/ WASHINGTON: A top US military officer has said that the al-Qaida militants in Iraq are moving to safe haven in tribal areas of Pakistan, posing threat not only to coalition forces in Afghanistan bu... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276767/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:54:56 -0400 Times of India http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276767/ Darwin - Australia appear to hold all the aces, but they won't be underestimating Bangladesh in their three-match one-day series starting on Saturday. All three games are being played in Darwin, th... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276761/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:41:26 -0400 IOL http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276761/ A bomb attack targeting policemen killed 10 people in northwest Pakistan on Thursday as Taliban-inspired violence threatened to exacerbate political instability in the nuclear-armed nation. A remote c... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276775/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:18:11 -0400 Breitbart http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276775/ Indonesia will sell LNG to Tokyo Gas Co. from Tangguh project with a cost of 20 U.S. dollars per million British thermal unit (Btu), according to local media on Thursday. "Tokyo Gas Co. will get ... http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276755/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:11:04 -0400 People's Daily http://story.srilankasource.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17276755/