International Business News - LKA http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The former president of Liberia is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The former leaders of Cambodia are in the dock. And a key figure in the Bosnia war is now in custody. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/karadzic-arrest-puts-spotlight-on-new-tribunals.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:26:08 EDT Anoma Rajakaruna has warm memories of her childhood in the diverse suburb of Panadura, where she went to the market and the pharmacy with her mother and chatted with neighbors in a mixture of English, Sinhalese and Tamil. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95687-sri-lanka-after-the-riot.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/sri-lankan-artists-address-anti-tamil-riots.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/sri-lankan-artists-address-anti-tamil-riots.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:26:45 EDT The Tamil Tiger rebels announced Tuesday they would observe a unilateral 10-day cease-fire as a goodwill gesture during a regional summit to be held in Sri Lanka later this month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/sri-lankan-rebels-declare-short-truce.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:58:53 EDT Sri Lankan rebels said Monday that a new round of peace talks on ending the country's 25-year-old civil war is impossible as long as the government presses ahead with a military offensive. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/sri-lankan-rebels-say-peace-talks-impossible.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:17:29 EDT Sri Lankan rebels said Monday that a new round of peace talks on ending the country's 25-year-old civil war is impossible as long as the government presses ahead with a military offensive. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/tamil-rebels-peace-talks-impossible.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:53:01 EDT Sri Lankan government forces captured a Tamil Tiger rebel base in the north Sunday after a 48-hour battle that left at least 15 rebels dead, while air force jets destroyed six rebel boats, the military said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/17-killed-in-latest-sri-lanka-fighting.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:32:51 EDT Sri Lankan government forces killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh fighting along the front lines of the island nation's civil war, the military said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/93971-sri-lanka.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/sri-lanka-19-rebels-killed-in-fighting.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/sri-lanka-19-rebels-killed-in-fighting.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:10:51 EDT Angry protesters halted trains and clashed with policemen in Sri Lanka's capital Friday as authorities began demolishing their homes, saying they were unauthorized constructions that encroached on government lands. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/sri-lanka-protesters-stop-trains-to-halt-evictions.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:40:07 EDT A wave of battles along the front lines of the civil war in northern Sri Lanka killed 20 ethnic Tamil rebels and five soldiers, the military said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/93390-sri-lanka.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/military-fighting-in-sri-lanka-kills-27.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/military-fighting-in-sri-lanka-kills-27.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:59:38 EDT Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a group of ethnic Tamil rebels Thursday, a day after new fighting in the north killed 27 people, the military said. The jets attacked a gathering of Tamil Tiger naval fighters in the Mannar region Thursday afternoon, a day after troops seized control of a nearby base used by the rebel's naval wing, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/sri-lankan-air-force-bombs-rebels.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:09:29 EDT Sri Lankan soldiers captured a key naval base used by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern part of the country, the military said Wednesday, a day after fighting in the region reportedly killed 51 rebels and a soldier. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/sri-lanka-says-key-rebel-base-captured.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:28:39 EDT Human rights groups urged the Philippines on Tuesday to lead efforts to improve working conditions in Saudi Arabia for more than a million foreign women domestic workers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/philippines-urged-to-help-worker-conditions-abroad.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:28:51 EDT Iyathigewewa is a classic company town. But the youth don't head off to work in the local mine or factory--they go to war. With no other job prospects in this impoverished, remote northern village about 27 miles south of the front lines, roughly half the men of fighting age have enlisted in the army, navy, police or other security branches. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/war-is-only-job-available-in-sri-lankan-village.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:32:35 EDT New fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war killed 31 Tamil Tiger rebels and two government soldiers, the military said Sunday. In the worst clash Saturday, 18 rebels and a soldier were killed in Mannar district, a military official said on condition of anonymity, citing government rules. Seven rebels and a soldier were killed in Vavuniya while six guerrillas died in Welioya, he said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/sri-lanka-33-killed-in-new-fighting.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:41:55 EDT Scattered fighting across Sri Lanka's embattled north and an attack on a passenger bus in the south killed 17 Tamil Tiger rebels and four civilians, the military said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89952-sri-lanka-civil-war.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/sri-lanka-says-17-rebels-killed-in-fighting.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/sri-lanka-says-17-rebels-killed-in-fighting.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:52:54 EDT Suspected rebel gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus Friday as it traveled down a small rural road in southern Sri Lanka, killing a 9-year-old boy and three women, the military said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89789-sri-lanka-civil-war.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/military-gunmen-kill-3-on-sri-lanka-bus.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/military-gunmen-kill-3-on-sri-lanka-bus.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:00:16 EDT Indian outsourcing services provider WNS Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that it paid $228 million for Aviva Global Services, the business process offshoring company of insurance group Aviva. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/wns-holdings-buys-aviva-global-services.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:52 EDT Sri Lanka's government says opposition plans for a nationwide strike have failed. But union leader K.D. Lal Kantha says the strike was successful, with more than 70 percent of teachers and hospital workers staying home. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/sri-lanka-opposition-strike-has-failed.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:01:51 EDT Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or witchcraft, a human rights group said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/rights-group-reports-abuses-in-saudi-arabia.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:50:48 EDT Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel position in their northern stronghold Sunday, a day after 19 rebels and a soldier were killed in a new round of ground fighting, the military said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/sri-lanka-says-20-killed-in-new-fighting.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:13:43 EDT