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Why did Britain allow LTTE-Norway meet? The Pioneer, Jan 4. Britain has been slammed for allowing Norwegian peace brokers to meet a top Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader in London despite its ban on his guerrilla group. "How a legally proscribed organisation is able to hold talks with representatives of a foreign government in the glare of international publicity cannot be reasoned out even by stretching the interpretation of British laws on terrorism to the utmost," a private daily, The Island, said on Friday. More... Published: Fri Jan 4 21:39:23 EST 2002

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Norway Completes First Round of Talks with LTTE Saroj Pathirana in London, Friday 04/01/02 1505 GMT. Norwegian peace delegation completed first round of talks with separatist Tamil Tigers, informed sources said...

Muttiaha Muralitharan Leo de Lile in Colombo, 7.00pm SLT Jan.04, 2002. Sri Lankan bowler Muttiaha Muralitharan bowls during the first day of the second cricket test between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka at Asgiriya cricket ground in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on Friday, January 4...

Italy Captures 100 Sri Lankan Immigrants in Sicily Nothern Light, Friday, January 04, 2002 5:08 AM EST . (Reuters) - Italian police captured Friday about 100 illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka who had landed near the Sicilian city of Catania by boat...

LTTE-Dawood-ISI ring in smuggling Deccan Herald, 5 January 2001. India has told Interpol and Sri Lanka that Pakistan has been a nerve-centre for LTTE for smuggling narcotics, arms and ammunition with active connivance of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang...

Obey Rules, or Face Action - Tamil Militants Warned Saroj Pathirana in London, Friday 04/01/02 1310 GMT. Sri Lankan Security officials warned Tamil militant groups to stop arresting and assaulting civilians, taking ransom from shops and not to allow cadres to move around with weaponry in Vavuniya...

No conspiracy to assassinate VIPs: Lankan Army Press Trust of India, Colombo,Friday, January 04, 2002. The Sri Lankan Army has denied reports concerning the raid on the arms stock from the house of an Army officer and that some military officials including a captain were involved in an alleged attempt to assassinate a VIP...

Sri Lanka's radical Left party accuses Norway of partiality Yahoo/Ians, 5 January 2002. Sri Lanka's main radical Left party Friday charged that Norway's bid to broker peace here would favour Tamil Tiger rebels, and vowed to oppose the internationally backed effort...

Jaswant to visit Sri Lanka NDTV/MSNBC, 04 January 2002. India and Sri Lanka agreed to revive a process for strengthening bilateral relations when Foreign Ministers of the two countries met on the sidelines of SAARC summit here on Thursday, diplomats said...

Sri Lanka's Delayed Budget to be Presented on March 6 Yahoo Singapore, 05 January 2002. The government's delayed 2002 budget would be presented in parliament on March 6, the cabinet spokesman said...

Sri Lankan Newspaper Highlights - Jan 4, 2002 Yahoo Singapore, 05 January 2002. New Power and Energy Minister Karu Jayasuriya says he will quit if unable to fulfil a promise of providing uninterrupted power to all Sri Lankan consumers within 180 days...

Sri Lankan sports minister intervenes in selection debacle Cricinfo - Charlie Austin , 04 January 2002. Sports minister Johnston Fernando forced Sri Lanka's selectors into a U-turn late on Thursday night as members of the team seriously contemplated standing down from the second Janashakthi National Test in protest of the decision to rest Marvan Atapattu and fast bowler Charitha Fernando...

South Asia summit delayed, peace talks unlikely Yahoo India, 05 January 2002. The start of a South Asian regional summit in Nepal to be attended by nuclear rivals India and Pakistan has been delayed for a day, after bad weather held up the arrival of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf...

Key chairs for opposition Daily Mirror, 04 Jnauary 2001. The government yesterday decided to offer the chairpersonship of two key parliamentary committees to the opposition in a move to promote transparency in governance...

Plot to assassinate Wickremesinghe foiled Deccan Herald, 04 January 2001. Sri Lankan forces are believed to have foiled a plan to assassinate newly-elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and senior military officials after they seized a huge cache of highly-sophisticated weapons and ammunitions in the Millennium City area at Athurugiriya, near the Lankan Parliament here, last night...

Judge orders Jaffna MP not to leave the Peninsular Saroj Pathirana in London, Thursday 03/01/02 1600 GMT. Jaffna District Judge R.T. Vignarajah ordered regional commanders of the Sri Lankan security forces not to let EPDP parliamentarian N...

Britain welcomes Norway initiative on Sri Lanka The Hindu NUS, London, Jan. 4 (DPA). British officials today welcomed a meeting between a Norwegian representative and a Tamil tiger leader planned for tomorrow in London and indicated that legislation banning the organization would not be enforced...

Sri Lanka wants ceasefires strengthened BBC South Asia, Thursday, 3 January, 2002, 17:47 GMT . The Sri Lankan Government says it is working to consolidate the ceasefires currently observed by the rebel Tamil Tigers group and the military...

Press Freedom Deteriorated in 2001- RSF Saroj Pathirana in London, Thursday 03/01/02 1740 GMT. Thirty one journalists killed, hundreds arrested and many more threatened or intimidated during the last year, a media watchdog claimed...

Tamil Tigers slam new Defence Minister’s threats Tamil Guardian, 04 January 2001. The Liberation Tigers this week registered a strong protest to the Sri Lankan government over a statement made by Defence Minister Tilak Marapana over the weekend, vowing his government would do its utmost wipe out the LTTE...

South Asia's crippled regional body BBC, 04 January 2001. Much to the frustration of the smaller countries that make up the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (Saarc), the organisation has not emulated the success of the Association of South-East Asian Nations...

Sri Lanka's Tea Exports Record Marginal Increase Nothern Light, Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:00 PM EST . (Xinhua via COMTEX) - Sri Lanka's tea exports increased by 3.2 percent during the first 11 months of 2001 up to 271.9 million kilograms from 262.5 million kilograms during the same period in 2000, according to reports by tea brokers Forbes and Walker, Asia Siyaka and Eastern Brokers...

Colombo, Tigers plan pre-talks pact Gulf-News, 04 January 2001. Sri Lanka said yesterday it was working with Norway's help on a pre-talks accord that would formalise month-long ceasefires declared by the government and separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas...

Tamils agree to meeting on peace bid Globe and Mail, 04 January 2001. Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for a separate state in Sri Lanka said yesterday that they will meet Norwegian officials in London to try to get a peace initiative off the ground...

Vigil stepped up along south coast The Hindu (Southern States), 04-01-2002 . The Coast Guard has strengthened vigil along the south coast in the State following the Sri Lankan ceasefire, for there could be greater illegal movements in the Palk Bay as a result of the new peace initiatives...

Six decisions to revive electricity sector Island - Dr. Thilak Siyambalapitiya, 04 January 2001 . Power cuts are back exactly as expected. As usual, the weather will be blamed again for the continuing crisis hiding the real truth...

S.Lanka to Get 63,800 Tons of U.S. Wheat Xinhuanet, 04 January 2001. The U.S. embassy in Colombo hasannounced that Sri Lanka will receive about 63,800 tons of wheat flour under an aid program for 2002, which represents about 7 percent of Sri Lanka's annual requirement...

Sri Lanka drop Atapattu BBC South Asia, 4 January 2001. Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya admitted that he is faced with an opening dilemma after vice-captain Marvan Atapattu was dropped for the second Test against Zimbabwe...

ICC to accept Sharjah as neutral Test venue Gulf-News, 04 January 2001. The International Cricket Council (ICC) is ready to recognise Sharjah as a neutral Test venue should it stage the West Indies-Pakistan Test series...

Norway to reopen dialogue with Sri Lanka rebels Fri. Kyodo News, 03 January 2001. Norway will reopen formal contacts Friday with Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels when a Norwegian delegation meets the rebels' chief negotiator in London, a top Tamil Web site said Thursday...

Bring on worthy Sri Lankans news.com.au, 03 January 2001. WOULD Australia's next challenger please stand up. As what promised to be an enthralling summer of competitive cricket against South Africa quickly turns into yet another one-way romp for the Aussies, it's again time to look for our next great challenge...

Cabinet reshuffle soon Daily Mirror, 03 January 2001. The Prime Minister is likely to go for a Cabinet re-shuffle on January 10, UNP sources told the Daily Mirror yesterday...

Highlights of the year 2001 Yahoo India, 03 January 2001. The year 2001 had been quite eventful, with brilliant individual performances and controversies going hand-in-hand...

Sri Lankan Newspaper Highlights - Jan 3, 2002 Yahoo Singapore, 03 January 2001. Sri Lanka's peace process gathered momentum after Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on Wednesday invited Norway to resume its role as a facilitator in the peace effort...

Sri Lankan Tamil Rebel Leader Seeks Norwegian Mediation Nothern Light, Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:08 PM EST . Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has written to Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondervik, calling for Norway's continuous engagement as a facilitator between his organization and the Sri Lanka government...

11th SAARC Summit begins tomorrow amid heightened Indo-Pak tensions Deccan Herald, 03 January 2001. The much-delayed SAARC Summit begins here tomorrow against the backdrop of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, with New Delhi relentlessly pushing for condemnation of the December 13 attack on the Indian Parliament by the grouping and seeking formulation of a unified approach by it to eliminate the scourge from the region...

Sri Lanka's Diamond Jewelry Exports on Rise Nothern Light, Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:04 PM EST . Sri Lanka's exports of diamonds and diamond jewelry and other jewelry have recorded a considerable growth in volume up to November 2001, according to the National Gem and Jewelry Authority...

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