Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited is a public limited liability company incorporated in Sri Lanka in 1926 by its founder D. R. Wijewardena. 75% of its shares were Nationalized under the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Special Provisions) Law No. 28 of 1973 and this stake is held by the Public Trustee of Sri Lanka on behalf of the ...
Sinhala: Country: Sri Lanka: Website: mawbima.lk: Media of Sri Lanka; List of newspapers; ... (lit. Motherland) is a weekly Sinhala language newspaper that publishes ...
Sri Lanka is primarily a source, destination, and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Some Sri Lankan women are subjected to forced prostitution in Cyprus, Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and elsewhere. Within the country, women and children are subjected to sex trafficking in ...
Wijikala Nanthan and Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon were aged 24 and 22 years when they arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in Mannar and accused of being members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Wijikala who was pregnant, her husband, Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon and her child were arrested at 11.00 PM and allegedly tortured in custody.
NBC News correspondent Katy Tur is opening up about the sexism she faced as a young woman in journalism. In an excerpt from her new memoir Rough Draft, published by Vanity Fair, the broadcaster ...
In the 1960s the image of Girl Guiding in Sri Lanka was changed to give it a local character. New Sri Lanka badges for all ranks in the three branches were introduced. [3] SLGGA is divided into seven sections: Butterflies - (aged 5 - 8 years) Little Friends - (aged 7 - 12 years) Guides - (aged 12 - 17 years) Rangers - (aged 15 - 21 years)
Shoba was born in 1982 and hailed from Delft Island. [10] [11] She was educated at the Memorial School and Vembadi Girls' High School.[10] [11] Her family moved to the Vanni in 1995 after being displaced from their home by Operation Riviresa - the Sri Lankan military's operation aimed at recapturing the Jaffna Peninsula. [11]
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists allege ...