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The World Trade Center (also known as WTC Colombo or WTCC) (Sinhala: ලෝක වෙළෙඳ මධ්යස්ථානය, romanized: Lōka Veḷen̆da Madhyasthānaya; Tamil: உலக வர்த்தக மையம், romanized: Ulaka Varttaka Maiyam) is a 152-metre-tall (499 ft) twin building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 39-storey ...
The Colombo World Trade Centre Bombing was a terrorist attack which occurred on 15 October 1997 and was carried out by the LTTE during the separatist civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers.
Fort (Colombo) (Sinhala: කොටුව; Tamil: கோட்டை) is the central business district of Colombo in Sri Lanka. It is the financial district of Colombo and the location of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and the World Trade Centre of Colombo from which the CSE operates.
A World Trade Center (also World Trade Centre or WTC) is a building or complex of buildings used for the promotion and expansion of trade and licensed to use the "World Trade Center" name by the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA). As of May 2020, the WTCA included 323 properties in 90 countries. [1]
The LTTE is a separatist militant group that fought for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka between 1976 and 2009. The rebel group has been banned by 33 countries, including the United States , United Kingdom , Canada , India , Malaysia , Sri Lanka and the 27 member nations of the European Union .
Look back at the twin towers and the World Trade center through the years: The towers were destroyed in the September 11 attacks, killing over 2,000 people that were within their walls or in the ...
Sri Lanka eyeing another shot at WTC final in Pakistan tests July 15, 2023 at 5:20 AM GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka was in contention for the World Test Championship final until March.
The St. Francis Shangri-La Place, Philippines The two WTC towers on the right, the tallest twin buildings in Sri-Lanka and the BOC tower on the left. The Presidential Secretariat and Galadari hotel are also visible. City National Plaza, in Los Angeles, was briefly the tallest twin building complex in the world, until the World Trade Center was ...