· August, 2008

Stories about Sri Lanka from August, 2008

Sri Lanka: Ridi Vihare

Cerno visits a historic cave temple – the Ridi Vihare -”Silver Temple” in Sinhala and writes about it.

22 August 2008

Sri Lanka: Lunar Eclipse pictures

Shehal of kanabona.com witnessed the partial Lunar eclipse on August 17th in Sri Lanka and posts some beautiful photographs of the eclipse.

19 August 2008

Bangladesh: Is SAARC a paper tiger?

Ahmede Hussain of Black and Gray writes on the recently concluded South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) summit in Colombo and comments, “SAARC leadership must show brinkmanship to make...

19 August 2008

Sri Lanka: A Georgia case?

Lanka Page opines that the recent incident in Georgia can be a lesson for Sri Lanka: “like in 1987, there is every likelihood that India will intervene if we too...

18 August 2008

Sri Lanka: Displaced

The ethnic conflict has left many people in Sri Lanka stranded in their own country. groundviews on the condition of some people in camps.

11 August 2008

Sri Lanka: Monitoring Mobiles

A mobile telephony provider in Sri Lanka wants all users to include photographs in their registration documents. LirneASIA doesn't see the point of such a move.

6 August 2008