The men who crashed the world
The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that led to financial collapse. In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire More...
Pakistan’s double-game: Treachery or strategy?
Washington has just about had it with Pakistan. “Turns out they are disloyal, deceptive and a danger to the United States,” fumed Republican Representative Ted Poe last week. “We pay them to hate us. Now we More...
US official foresees elections in the north as way for ‘indigenous leadership’
While the US Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Clinton visiting Chennai was looking at “some innovative and creative ideas” to break the impasse over the ‘Sri Lankan Tamils’ issue, a senior US State Department More...
The Sri Lankan soldiers ‘whose hearts turned to stone’
Exclusive: As the Sri Lankan war approached its endgame, 130,000 civilians were trapped along a small strip of beach. An eyewitness recalls the bloodshed that followed and how civilians were targeted. More...
US panel votes to bar aid to Sri Lanka
File photo of Sri Lankan troops in the north-eastern district of Mullaittivu during … A US congressional committee voted to ban aid to Sri Lanka unless the nation shows “accountability” over the More...
Clinton meets Jayalalithaa in Chennai
The United States is “looking at some innovative and creative ideas to break the impasse over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue,” PTI quoted visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telling Tamil Nadu Chief More...
ICG: Sri Lanka further from reconciliation than ever
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s authoritarian and Sinhalese nationalist post-war policies are undermining prospects for reconciling Sri Lanka’s ethnic communities, weakening democracy for all Sri Lankans and More...
Tamils have reasons to seek asylum: NZ Herald editorial
“Sri Lanka has not long emerged from a long and bloody civil war. The Sinhalese Government would not allow media to witness the way it finally crushed the Tamil rebellion. Anyone afraid to remain in that More...
Prime Minister criticized in New Zealand’s parliament over Tamil refugees
Green Party MP, Keith Locke was furious at New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key in the parliament on Thursday, over the latter’s recent remarks on Eezham Tamil boat refugees. On the question of the 87 asylum More...
