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(COLOMBO,Reuters)A sex-crazed male monkey has caused an uproar in a town in central Sri Lanka. (路透社科伦坡电)一只性致勃勃的公猴子大闹斯里兰卡中部的一个小镇。 It stole chocolate,which is an aphrodisiac. 这只猴
Anjana Pasricha In Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party is trying to get support from smaller allies after her party won the most seats in Friday's parliamentary elections, but fell shor
By Steve Herman New Delhi 06 June 2008 At least 21 people died and more than 50 were wounded when a blast tore through a suburban Colombo commuter bus during the Friday morning rush hour. An explosion on another bus in central Sri Lanka later in the
By Patricia Nunan Kantale, Sri Lanka 02 October 2006 watch Sri Lanka refugee report The United Nations says as many as 200,000 people in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced in recent weeks by fighting between the Tamil Tiger rebels an
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 30 March 2006 Sri Lanka has held local government elections that are being widely seen as a referendum on President Mahinda Rajapakse's handling of a peace process with th
By Patricia Nunan Trincomalee 28 June 2006 Hundreds of people have died in Sri Lanka this year as the government and rebels of the Tamil Tiger guerrilla group slip back into what some are calling an undeclared civil war. Leaders from both sides say
By Patricia Nunan Trincomalee 29 June 2006 As Sri Lanka threatens to slide back into all-out civil war, much talk is focused on paramilitaries - armed groups accused of carrying out attacks on civilians. Both the government and the Tamil Tiger separ
Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels, on the verge of total military defeat, have declared a cease-fire. But the military immediately rejected it, saying surrender to Sri Lankan forces is the only option. The development comes as the top U.N. humanitarian offic
The situation in Sri Lanka, where government forces are fighting to eliminate the last stronghold of Tamil separatist rebels, was the subject of a U.S. congressional hearing Tuesday. Discussion of the military conflict and what the United Nations an
Australian Customs officers lower their life boat with Sri Lankan refugees on board as the refugees are transported from Oceanic Viking, an Australian Customs Service patrol ship, to an Australian-funded detention center in Tanjung Pinang, off the co
Internally displaced ethnic Tamils watch Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse during his visit to the Manik Farm refugee camp, in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (file photo) The United Nations refugee agency reports that all 490 Tamil passengers on a cargo sh
Sri Lanka is preparing for a major celebration following the battlefield defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending a quarter-century civil war. Joyous outbursts that are mixed with some lingering anxiety, especially among the minority T
Tamil communities across Southeast Asia are preparing to contribute aid to thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils displaced by the fighting that ended almost three decades of conflict. But the fighting that claimed thousands of lives over recent months has
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 October 2009 The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an independent, international investigation of possible war crimes committed during the last few months of the war in Sri Lanka. The UN agency
By David Gollust Washington 22 October 2009 The first aerial view of the coastal strip, a former war zone where the Tamil rebels made their last stand, videotaped by VOA The United States is calling on the Sri Lankan government to thoroughly investi
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 15 April 2007 Clementine Roux, 19, of France shows a handbill pasted on her chest as she participates in a demonstration by tourists to express their solidarity for the restoration of democracy in Nepal in Katmandu, 18 Ap
Todd: So, Buddihini, today we're going to talk about roles and family: traditional roles or what people do. Now in Sri Lanka, is it common for usually the women to do all the cooking? Buddhi: It was so. It was so, but still the mentality is such that
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 02 January 2008 At least four people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in a bombing by suspected Tamil rebels in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. The bomb attack came a day after a prominent Tamil lawmaker was s
An explosion ripped apart a bus carrying school children in rural Sri Lanka and authorities say it appears to have been a Tamil Tiger attack. The blast killed at least 23 people and injured nearly 70 others. 斯里兰卡农村地区一辆载有学龄儿
Sri Lanka's rebels have announced they would be laying down their guns to prevent what they call further unnecessary slaughter of Tamil civilians by government troops. The island nation's military says it has defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E