Sri Lanka
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West Asia
Saudi Arabia reconsiders stoning sentence of Sri Lankan woman
A Saudi court has decided to reopen the case of a Sri Lankan woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, according to a Sri Lankan government minister. Harsha de Silva, the deputy foreign minister, told parliament on Tuesday 8th December that an appeals court in Riyadh, Saudi…
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on Jun 8 Top news in <Daily News>: Speaker gets tough with two UNP MPs news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on Jun 1 Top news in <Daily News>: Sri Lanka’s tallest tower in the making news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on May 25 Top news in <Daily News>: Russian support for SL’s reconciliation process news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on May 18 Top news in <Island>: SF will be freed over weekend Mahinda-Anoma talks successful news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on May 11 Top news in <Daily News>: Govt ready for polls at any time news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on May 4 Top news in <Daily News>: Presidential Commission to curb crime proposed news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on Apr 13 2012 Top news in <Daily News>: ‘Abduction meant to blacken country’ news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on April 6 2012 Top news in <Daily News>: More positive changes in SL after April 8 news@theasian.asia
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Society
Sri Lanka gets ‘first ever eBook store’
This Jan. 26, 2012 photo, shows a webpage on Amazon.com featuring Kindle e-book readers on a computer screen in Miami. <File Photo: AP/Newsis> COLOMBO (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka has opened its first eBook store BookHUB providing a different reading experience to book lovers, an official statement said here on Tuesday.…
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