Tamil disappearances campaigner Balendran Jeyakumary has been called in for yet another inquiry by Sri Lanka’s Terrorist Investigation Division (TID), following an interrogation by authorities this week.

Ms Jeyakumary was summoned to appear before the TID in Colombo on the 16^th of August, where she was questioned for several hours.

The Sri Lankan government reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China over key Chinese investment and development projects.

The projects include the Hambantota port's further development, the Mattala International Airport project, as well as rail projects connecting Beliatta to Hambantota, the Daily Mirror reported.

The MoU was signed earlier this year in April, the paper added, however it was tabled in parliament last week.

The Sri Lankan navy on Monday arrested 18 people who were fleeing the island towards Australia by boat. 

The refugees, who were on board the fishing vessel, 'Blue Star', were detained off the coast of Batticaloa after a tip off was received by the navy, the SundayTimes.lk reported. 

Sri Lanka's joint opposition is to seek legal action over the government's introduction of the Office of Missing Persons bill, the FT.lk reported on Tuesday.

Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran, US Ambasador Atul Keshap and Minister of National Coexistence Dialogue Mano Ganesan as they arrived in Jaffna on a USAF aircraft..

The US ambassador to Sri Lanka, Atul Keshap, stressed that much remained to be done in order to ensure the implementation of the UN Human Rights council resolution on accountability and reconciliation, as he marked a historic trip to Jaffna this week.

Female headed households in Jaffna faced added insecurity to their livelihoods due to the pervasive Sri Lankan military presence in the North-East, said Jaffna residents at a Sri Lankan government consultation on the mechanisms for accountability, truth, reparations and non-recurrence earlier this month.

Tamil fishermen in Vadamaradchi East alleged that hundreds of Sinhalese fishermen from the south have been allowed by the Sri Lankan military to fish in restricted areas, as tensions between the groups heighten.

The newly-built Buddhist temple at Ilankaithurai - re-named Lanka Patuna by the government. A bridge is being constructed to improve access to the site for the increasing number of Sinhala visitors.

Tamil Guardian co-editor and PEARL Advocacy Director Mario Arulthas travelled to Trincomalee last month to report on how Tamils in the region are struggling with the Sri Lankan state's spread of Buddhism across the North-East.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) told the Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg on Sunday that a new consitution in Sri Lanka must resolve the national question, the FT.lk reported. 

Sri Lankan army soldiers protested in Battaramulla against the government's passing of the Office of Missing Persons bill last week. Five joint opposition MPs were also present. 

Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Division have called in the disappearance campaigner, Balandran Jeyakumary for a further inquiry in Colombo at the second floor of the TID's office. 

 In a statement opening a Tamil People's Council meeting earlier this month in Jaffna, Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister, C.V. Wigneswaran, raised issues of accountability and a North-East merger.

The Sri Lankan police this week launched an investigation over a T-shirt found in a textile shop in Kandy, depicting a Tamil Eelam map, Tamil Eelam flag symbol and photograph of the leader of the Liberation Times of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), V Prabhakaran, and with the words 'L'aspiration des Tamouls est un Tamil Eelam libre' and 'Free Tamil Eelam' printed over it. 

Sri Lanka’s anti-LGBTI laws further abuse that transgender people and others that do not conform to social expectations face on the island, reports Human Rights Watch.

With the release of a new 63-page report, the human rights organisation found that Sri Lankan laws left transgender and intersex people unprotected, whilst abuse and arbitrary detention continued with impunity.