The European Union's decision to suspend preferential trade benefits to Sri Lanka because of human rights “shortcomings” during the island’s 26-year civil war is expected to have a significant impact on the latter's export sector.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to ask a panel of experts to advise the world body on "accountability issues" relating to possible human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, Reuters reported quoting spokesperson Martin Nesirky as saying.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon plans to setup a panel of experts to advise the world body on "accountability issues" relating to possible human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, Reuters reported quoting UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky.

The Colombo stock exchange hit a new record high of 3843.67 points on Monday, March 1 but foreign investors continued selling their holdings amidst political and economic concerns.

China has emerged as Sri Lanka's biggest single lender in 2009, overtaking the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, the treasury said Wednesday, March 3.

Dismissing the response by Colombo that Ban Ki Moon had not appointed panel of experts on other countries where there are "continuing armed conflicts on a large scale, involving major humanitarian catastrophes and causing the deaths of large numbers of civilians due to military action," as "simply untrue nonsense," Francis A. Boyle, professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, said that during the past year alone UN Human Rights Council had authorized Goldstone Commission investigation into Israel war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

While Colombo plans allotting lands for ‘retired’ Sinhala army personnel in the so-called 'resettlement' schemes of Tamil North and East of the island of Sri Lanka, China and India compete in proving who is the best facilitator of Colombo in its demographic onslaught, Eelam Tamils circles said.

Presenting her report to the annual session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay criticised Sri Lanka for failing to examine abuses committed during the civil war last year between the government forces and Tamil Tigers.

A copy of the speech given at the GTF launch by the shadow foreign secretary, Rt Hon. William Hague MP.

Sri Lanka missed the budget deficit targets for 2009 set by the International Monetary Fund as a condition for a $2.6 billion loan, according to data published by the finance ministry.

Sri Lanka's president has rejected the decision by the UN Secretary General to constitute a experts panel to look into human rights abuses in the country's civil war calling it unprecedented and unwarranted...

India is considering Sri Lanka's request for additional aid to ensure resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), external affairs minister SM Krishna told reporters on Saturday March 6.

The diplomatic rift between London and Colombo widened after Prime Minister Gordon Brown and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband met delegates from a new worldwide Tamil union despite "strong protests" from the Sri Lankan government, British newspapers reported.

The presence of Chinese in Sri Lanka owned island of Kachchatheevu, considered as a threat to the security of India, is confirmed by a group of journalists and social activists from Tamil Nadu