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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.comBlogger1034125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-301210644352496442018-03-04T11:29:00.004+05:302018-03-04T11:30:08.540+05:30True caller to set up Sub-Saharan Africa headquarters in Nairobi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Truecaller has announced plans to set up headquarters in Nairobi,Kenya and has appointed Zakaria Hersi as Director of Partnerships for Africa. In his position, Zakaria will be spearheading Truecaller’s expansion in the region and forging partnerships with various eco-system players.<br />
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The Truecaller app allows people to see who is calling and filter out spam calls and SMSes and has more than 50 million users in Africa.<br />
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The company also revealed that it has more than 6 million users in Kenya alone, where the user base has grown over 35 percent over the past year. The Truecaller app is identifying more than half a billion calls monthly, blocking and filtering out more than 4.4 million, including 14 million spam SMSes, 50 percent of these SMSes being reported as spam.<br />
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“Over the years, Kenya has consistently been a top market for us, with some of our highest usage globally, which is why it made sense for us to set up headquarters in Nairobi. With this positive momentum of growth, we look forward to bringing new, innovative and localized services and offerings, while expanding our presence and engaging more deeply with the tech ecosystem,” said Zakaria Hersi, Director of Partnerships, Africa at Truecaller.<br />
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Some of Hersi’s achievements include launching marketplaces around the world where he assisted Swedish Investment firm Kinnevik launch Saltside in Nigeria during his post as Managing Director. Hersi also had two stints working for Swedish based company Besedo, where he helped open offices in Colombia and Mauritius. During his period at Besedo, he worked closely with some of the largest marketplaces (eBay, Match.com & OLX) in Europe and South America, and was responsible for the post-merger integration of the company including French AI Company IoSquare.<br />
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Late last year Truecaller launched its Developer Program with Truecaller SDK, its mobile identity product for digital start-ups and app developers, and announced that they will be doubling down on their monetization initiative, and introducing Truecaller Priority program in Sub-Sahara Africa.<br />
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Truecaller SDK enables 3rd party app developers, digital businesses and start-ups to verify end users quickly and frictionlessly, by utilizing their Truecaller profile with a one-touch and password free experience. The Truecaller SDK is available on Android, iOS and web platforms and can be used by any app or a website to instantly on-board, autofill user information, or verify the user’s phone number based identity through a users’ consent.<br />
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Truecaller Priority is a new service that ensures that users will always know when it’s a relevant and important call made from a company – and not a spam call. This will provide an enhanced delivery experience by giving Truecaller users more context to calls, which allows people to know, for example, when their package has arrived.<br />
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In a recent study conducted by Truecaller, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt rank among the top 20 countries in the world being plagued by unwanted spam calls.<br />
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At least 10 demonstrators have been injured in clashes with Ukrainian police and another 100 detained in the capital Kiev after authorities began dismantling a makeshift "tent city" protesting against corruption.<br />
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The tent city was set up in October by supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia who has become an opposition politician in Ukraine.<br />
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Saakashvili, a critic of corruption in Ukraine, was deported to Poland in February. He said he was "kidnapped" by Ukrainian authorities and removed from the country against his will.<br />
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Andriy Kryshchneko, police chief of police, said at the camp on Saturday that "two court decisions" allowed authorities to search and dismantle the camp.<br />
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Yuri Lutsenko, Ukrainian prosecutor, said in a Facebook post that from "the first day of the Saakashvili demonstration, I, as general prosecutor, spoke of the guarantee of peaceful protest.<br />
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But to turn the tent village ... into a hoard of extremists, weapons and explosives is taboo."<br />
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The tent camp is part of a broader movement calling for the resignation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.<br />
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Poroshenko won the 2014 presidential election following the overthrow of a pro-Russia government by popular demonstrations.<br />
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A billionaire whose large-scale confectionery company Roshen earned him the nickname Chocolate King, Poroshenko promised reforms that demonstrators say have stalled.<br />
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Members of the broader movement of which the tent city was a part are also calling for a national anti-corruption court.<br />
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Corruption is reportedly a growing problem in Ukraine.<br />
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Before his deportation, Saakashvili was a well-known critic of Poroshenko's efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine.<br />
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Serbian TV personality Anabela Scekic, 39, has been held for blackmail after allegedly filming a sex session with a 34-year-old named only as N.N.</div>
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"In the meantime, he reported the blackmail to the police, who soon after arrested all three suspects in a hotel in Serbia."</div>
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When cops found them Radovan L. had £3,600 on him, which he claimed a “wealthy friend” had given him.</div>
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Officers also uncovered risqué content on Scekic's phone including pictures and videos of her with two football players and a politician.</div>
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Scekic rose to stardom on a Serbian reality TV show called Maldivi.</div>
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At a court hearing all three suspects claimed they didn't blackmail the businessman.</div>
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The women claimed they don't even know alleged co-conspirator Radovan L.</div>
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They admitted that the businessman paid them for sex, but said they had nothing to do with the blackmail.</div>
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-61578400447691124782018-03-03T19:51:00.001+05:302018-03-03T19:51:27.214+05:30Last year's iPhones are destroying Samsung's new Galaxy S9 flagship smartphone - Bench Mark Results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Samsung announced the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, the latest entries in its flagship line of smartphones, at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress — but benchmark results are awkwardly showing the devices scoring significantly lower than many of their competitors.<br />
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Benchmarks are synthetic tests that give numeric, quantifiable results. They are generally applications programmed to make the devices' systems-on-a-chip (SoC) run a series of tasks and determine how long it takes them to complete.<br />
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AnandTech is a site that specialises in running rigorous tests like these, and its early findings on Samsung's latest devices are curious to say the least— particularly compared to the latest iPhones, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 — which will power most of the Android flagships this year — and even Samsung's own Galaxy S8 from last year.<br />
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In a number of tests — such as web browsing, writing, data manipulation, and photo editing — the Galaxy S9's Exynos 9810 consistently delivered worse results than the aforementioned chips and devices, which is bizarre considering that tests run on the chip itself showed significant improvements over 2017's Exynos chip (that powered the S8, S8+, and even Note 8 smartphones)..<br />
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"What seems clear is that there is something is very very wrong with the Exynos 9810 S9+ that I tested," AnandTech's report says. "It was barely able to distinguish itself from last year's Exynos 8895, let alone the Snapdragon 845 in the Qualcomm Reference Device which we previewed earlier this month."<br />
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There might be an explanation, however, as a Samsung spokesperson told AnandTech that the phones it tested were running special firmware specific to the demo units deployed for Mobile World Congress (MWC), and that retail devices might take full advantage of the SoC's capabilities.<br />
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Samsung corroborated this to Business Insider, confirming that the Galaxy S9s present at MWC were indeed "demo devices."<br />
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"The majority of consumers have been selecting the Galaxy S8+," Samsung said in an email to CNBC, noting that the larger model is more popular than the smaller Galaxy S8. Samsung added that it's already noticing "double digit growth" (at least 10 percent) over last year in the few weeks since pre-orders for the smartphone went on sale.</div>
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First, there seems to be pent-up demand for a new Samsung flagship smartphone even after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle last year, in which random battery fires consumed some phones, forcing Samsung to recall the model entirely. While last year's Galaxy S7 was released without incident, the Note 7 was the last phone Samsung released in the U.S., and the Note line-up are the company's most advanced phones.</div>
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Also Samsung's finding that consumers are preferring the larger Galaxy S8+ suggests that buyers are still chasing bigger screens and that Samsung's strategy to cram the largest display possible into its flagship is a good idea.</div>
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Dialog Missed Call Top Up enables customers to instantly top-up Rs 100/= to their prepaid or postpaid mobile account using Sampath Bank account. Any Dialog customer who is having a Sampath Bank account and registered with SMS Banking Service will be automatically qualified to use the Dialog Missed Call Top-Up service.</div>
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All customers have to do is dial 458. Once done the call will be automatically dropped and the funds will be transferred instantly. Customers will be able to transfer up to Rs. 500/= from their Sampath Bank account to the Dialog number using this service on a daily basis.</div>
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<li>I don’t hear any response message when I call 458. Is this normal?</li>
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<li>You don’t have to register for this service with Dialog. If you have a Dialog mobile connection and a Bank account with Sampath Bank you are automatically eligible. However, you should have SMS banking facility enabled. If you don’t have SMS banking enabled please call 0112303050 for assistance.</li>
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Ericsson in collaboration with Mobitel and the Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure has formally signed the 5G Island of Innovation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 10th March 2017, representing a landmark strategic ICT partnership that aims to bring 5G Internet of Things (IoT) innovation and entrepreneurship to Sri Lanka for the first time in South Asia. Mobitel was also the pioneer in South Asia to launch a Super 3.5G network, to successfully demonstrate HSPA + MIMO technology and successfully trial 4G-LTE and 4.5G-LTE Advanced Pro technology. </div>
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The 5G Island of Innovation environment will further advance the nation’s ICT skills and capabilities, supporting the ambition to transform Sri Lanka into a digital and knowledge based society, driving new and increased employment opportunities enabled by ICT ecosystem innovations. </div>
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Hon. Harin Fernando, Minister of Telecommunication & Digital Infrastructure, says: “I commend Ericsson and Mobitel for taking the lead as responsible corporate citizens and long term Nation Building partners to the people of Sri Lanka. We are delighted to have partnered with Ericsson and Mobitel in forging this pivotal 5G Island of Innovation collaboration, which ultimately aims to leverage the power of home grown ICT innovation and entrepreneurship to create new employment opportunities and reduce the digital divide in the country. Indeed, the Ministry of Telecommunication & Digital Infrastructure’s ambition is to leverage the 5G Island of Innovation at the Mobitel Innovation Centre to stimulate entrepreneurial ICT ecosystem collaborations that combine the complementary skills and capabilities of a broader cross-section of ICT players for the benefit of all Sri Lankans.” </div>
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Denis Brunetti, Head of Ericsson Sri Lanka, says: “In recognition of the enduring Nation Building partnership Ericsson has shared with the people of Sri Lanka for over 20 years, it gives me great pleasure to join hands with Mobitel and the Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure in realizing the country’s inaugural 5G Island of Innovation strategic partnership. Ericsson will implement its 5G test bed technology in the Mobitel Innovation Centre in Colombo with the prime purpose of jointly creating a 5G IoT ecosystem designed to provide Sri Lankan ICT innovators an environment to develop and test 5G IoT applications and services”. </div>
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Mr. P. G. Kumarasingha Sirisena, Chairman of Sri Lanka Telecom and Mobitel, says: “We are delighted to contribute our state of the art Mobitel Innovation Centre to the 5G Island of Innovation initiative, providing a suitable environment for 5G IoT development in partnership with Ericsson and the Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure. Mobitel is committed to creating an environment that is conducive to the generation of new and exciting mobile broadband products and services, adding value to the ICT landscape and our customers across Sri Lanka”. </div>
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-41032578642973420882016-09-17T12:50:00.002+05:302016-09-17T12:50:36.996+05:30XL Axiata Falls as Malaysian Parent Said Planning to Cut Stake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shares of XL Axiata dropped as much as 4.9 percent Tuesday and were down 3.4 percent to 2,560 rupiah at 12:29 a.m. in Jakarta, headed for their lowest close since October 2015. The benchmark Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 1.6 percent. Axiata Group Bhd., Malaysia’s biggest mobile-phone operator, is seeking to trim stakes in some of its overseas operations in deals that could raise as much as $700 million, people familiar with the matter said.</div>
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Axiata, based in Kuala Lumpur, is seeking a buyer for about 11 percent of Indonesian unit XL Axiata, according to the people. It is also selling as much as 30 percent each of listed Sri Lanka unit Dialog Axiata Plc and closely held Cambodian subsidiary Smart Axiata Co., the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private.</div>
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Total debt at Axiata has risen 55 percent since the end of 2014 to reach 21.5 billion ringgit ($5.2 billion) at the end of June, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Axiata, which has interests in 10 countries across Asia, will use part of the proceeds from the divestments to cut borrowings, the people said. </div>
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Axiata continuously reviews various strategic options to enhance shareholders’ value, the company said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday. Since the middle of last year Axiata has been exploring options including rebalancing its portfolio and reviewing its shareholdings across subsidiaries, according to the statement.</div>
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The Malaysian company owns 83.3 percent of Dialog Axiata in Sri Lanka and 95.3 percent of Cambodian subsidiary Smart Axiata, according to its annual report. It also owns 66.4 percent of its Indonesian unit XL Axiata, whose shares have fallen 26 percent this year.</div>
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-48398906503767210192016-06-11T11:24:00.004+05:302016-06-11T11:24:55.995+05:30Sri Lanka rises up global peace index<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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steady shift of the world's oldest profession from the urban shadows to
the Internet has triggered an alarmed reaction from authorities in
recent months, including a crackdown by Bay Area police, an effort by
the federal government to better understand the problem and a push by
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The Web is awash with prostitution-related advertisements, video
chat rooms, bulletin boards, social networking posts and sites offering
those in the illegal trade everything from health services and political
advocacy to fundraising benefits and "sex worker socials." As a result,
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"It has changed a lot,"
said Gloria Lockett, a former prostitute during the 1970s and 1980s who
now runs the Oakland-based California Prostitutes Education Project,
which warns of the danger posed by drugs and sexually transmitted
diseases. "The majority of women who are career prostitutes, if you
will, they are online. You don't have to do so much scrambling around to
find the customers. It has absolutely helped them." <br />
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In June, 53-year-old Eric "Red" Omuro, of Mountain View, was charged with facilitating prostitution through his website, <a href="http://myredbook.com/">MyRedbook.com</a>,
which federal authorities said was filled with suggestive pictures of
women and graphic descriptions of the sexual services they offered.
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In a separate federal case, 58-year-old Allen Fong, of San Mateo,
was charged in October with running a "prostitution racketeering
enterprise" that operated 40 Bay Area brothels and posted sex-for-sale
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Asked about the web's effect on prostitution, San Francisco police
Lt. Michael Dudoroff acknowledged that it's benefitted those in the
business, but he added that it's also made it easier for police to
identify people selling or seeking to buy sex through online
solicitations. As with street prostitution, Internet sex transactions can be dangerous. <br />
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executive Forrest Hayes died in November 2013 from a heroin overdose
that police say was given to him on his yacht in Santa Cruz by a
26-year-old call girl he met on <a href="http://seekingarrangement.com/">SeekingArrangement.com</a>,
billed as a "Sugar Daddy dating site where over 3.6 million members
fuel mutually beneficial relationships on their terms." The woman, Alix
Tichelman, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, drug and prostitution
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But while cyberspace also can be risky for prostitutes,
they often find it easier to prescreen clients there than on the street,
experts say. Moreover, they now can easily connect and share
information with sex-worker activists, researchers and others around the
world, said Carol Leigh of San Francisco, a former massage-parlor
prostitute and co-founder of the Bay Area Sex Workers Advocacy Network,
who added, "this would never had happened before the Internet."<br />
Another
big lure of the Web is money, according to a 2014 study commissioned by
the U.S. Justice Department because it said so little had been known
previously about Internet-peddled sex.<br />
Concluding that the
business has mostly shifted to the Web, the report found that online
prostitutes typically charge $100 to $300 per hour, "significantly
higher than what is asked for on the street," where as little as $20 can
suffice for sex.<br />
Also lucrative are Internet prostitution ads, which the study noted can be found on a number of websites, including <a href="http://backpage.com/">Backpage.com</a>.
Although it declined to respond to this newspaper's request for
comment, Backpage is by far the most prolific provider of sex-for-sale
ads, according to a study by media consulting firm AIM Group, which said
the site earns well over $4 million a month from such marketing. AIM
Group counts as prostitution ads those that refer to "escorts" and "body
rubs."<br />
In its disclaimers, Backpage prohibits "posting any
solicitation directly or in 'coded' fashion for any illegal service
exchanging sexual favors for money or other valuable consideration."
Nonetheless, many of its ads seem highly suggestive, with inducements
such as, "I can meet and exceed all your sensual needs ..." "Sinfully
sexual seductress awaits you" and "Nothing is off limits."<br />
A
reporter from this newspaper called one Backpage ad that promised
"EVERYTHING u are looking for" followed by a slang word for orgasm. When
the woman who answered the phone was asked what services she provides,
she replied, "You sound like the police. Goodbye."<br />
Backpage has
been sued by three children who assert that they were exploited through
the site's hosting of prostitution ads targeting minors. But the site,
as well as the public interest groups Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Center for Democracy & Technology, contends that the federal
Communications Decency Act shields it from liability for actions by
third-party users who post such ads. The case is on appeal before the
Washington State Supreme Court.<br />
Hoping to halt the promotion of
online child prostitution, some members of Congress -- including U.S.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. -- are pushing passage of the Stop
Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act, which was introduced last year
and will be reintroduced this year, according to congressional sources.
It would punish website operators with prison terms of up to 10 years if
they "knowingly" offer ads that facilitate child prostitution and fail
to "verify" the age of those whose services are the subject of an "adult
advertisement."<br />
Critics have denounced the measure as a serious threat to free speech. <br />
In
a Nov. 11 letter to the Senate, the American Civil Liberties Union,
Internet Commerce Coalition, Electronic Frontier Foundation and six
other groups called the bill vague, overbroad and unconstitutional.
Noting that it would require the Justice Department to develop a list of
prohibited sexual "euphemisms," it added that "website operators,
online ad networks, and newspaper publishers alike would be forced to
censor ads containing these blacklisted terms, even when those ads are
for completely lawful goods and services." <br />
Protecting children as
well as the right to free expression could prove a tough balancing act,
according to Rory Little, a Hastings College of the Law professor and
former federal prosecutor. Moreover, no matter how hard authorities
crack down on prostitution, he added, the business is remarkably
adaptable, as is evident from its shift to the Internet.<br />
Comparing it to serpentine Hydra of Greek mythology, he said, "you cut off one head and another one blooms."<br />
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By : mercurynews.com <br />
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-75659866348617103322015-01-11T17:59:00.002+05:302015-01-11T17:59:33.163+05:30Sri Lanka needs a true human being, not a king – Maithripala <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Newly-elected President Maithripala Sirisena today invited all
political parties in parliament to unite in forming a national unity
government.<br />
“I invite all political parties in parliament to join the all-party
government to create good governance and drive the country towards
expected aspirations,” he said, delivering his first address to the
nation.<br />
He also pledged that the unlimited powers vested with the Executive
Presidency will be transferred to the Parliament, Cabinet and Judiciary.
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The President addressed the nation from the Paththirippuwa (the
Octagon) of the Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic)
in Kandy.<br />
Sirisena stated that the first step of his new government would be to
eradicate poverty from the country and also pledged to promote
religious coexistence and communal harmony in the country by ensuring
the freedom and rights of every religion.<br />
He further said that the new government would take every measure to
also eradicate corruption, fraud, irregularities and bribery within the
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He added that: “The country needs a true human being, not a king” and vowed to serve as a true worker to the people.<br />
President Sirisena also reiterated that he will not seek a second
term as President in Sri Lanka, saying Friday’s poll was the first and
last Presidential Election he would contest.<br />
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-57371303877239364432014-06-20T14:21:00.004+05:302014-06-20T14:21:37.123+05:30Probe anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka - HRW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Sri Lankan authorities should urgently investigate deadly violence against Muslims by Buddhist hardliners, Human Rights Watch said Friday.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The violence, which began June 15 after a rally led by the Buddhist Bodhu Bala Sena (BBS), left several dead, 80 injured, and numerous homes and businesses destroyed in Aluthgama town and surrounding areas.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Senior government officials as well as President Mahinda Rajapaksa have denounced the violence and promised compensation to the victims.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">But the government needs to seriously investigate who is responsible for the attacks on Muslim communities, Human Rights Watch said.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Police have detained at least 40 people.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Sri Lankan authorities need to do more than arrest those carrying out the anti-Muslim violence. They need to investigate and identify any instigators,” said the US-based group.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“That means taking a hard look at the role and relationship between extremist Buddhist groups like the BBS and the Sri Lankan security forces.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In addition to providing prompt relief for those who suffered harm in the attacks, the authorities should create a secure environment for members of all communities, Human Rights Watch said.</span><br />
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-21481710714737086632014-06-18T21:42:00.001+05:302014-06-18T21:42:05.789+05:30President arrives in Beruwala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Beruwala area a short while ago, President’s Media Division confirmed. He is scheduled to ascertain the current situation in the area first hand after unrest in the last few days. </span></div>
Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-81405067000414289192014-05-21T14:56:00.000+05:302014-05-21T14:56:19.474+05:30Modi invites President Rajapaksa, SAARC leaders for oath ceremony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to invite all heads of governments of SAARC countries including Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his swearing-in ceremony on May 26. Modi apparently wants to send out through this invitation a “very strong signal of a neighbour-friendly new government “, BJP sources say.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Modi conveyed this wish of his to President Pranab Mukherjee when he met him on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The President seemingly welcomed it as a ‘good idea’ and has passed this on to the ministry of external affairs which is now examining the proposal, sources in Rastrapati Bhavan said here.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is no recent precedent for inviting foreign heads of governments when an Indian prime minister has been sworn in, but Modi has a penchant for doing the most unusual.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">SAARC nations include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Modi apparently wants to send out through this invitation a “very strong signal of a neighbour-friendly new government “, BJP sources say.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">He has been engaged in some tough talk against both Pakistan and Bangladesh on issues of terrorism and illegal migration, but has later said that “election campaign and governance” are two different propositions.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The BJP has indicated that Modi will completely re-craft Indian foreign policy into a meaningful exercise after having denounced the Congress for a ‘weak foreign policy’.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BJP leaders say that Modi would make clear his mind on his approach to SAARC heads of governments about the ‘future direction of Indian policy’ in the region.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The message will be simple: we want to grow together. Modi will walk an extra mile for friends and do all to assuage their concerns but he will brook no nonsense and if anyone dares a Kargil, God bless the trouble-maker,” said a senior leader close to Modi, but he was unwilling to be named.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">By inviting Hasina and Sri Lanka’s Mahindra Rajapakse, Modi may also signal he will not tolerate ‘regional interference’ on foreign policy issues, though he would seek to accommodate their views on such issues.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“But he would not tolerate the kind of arm-twisting Manmohan Singh had to put up with,” the leader said.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BJP president Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that about 3,000 people would be invited for Modi’s oath-taking, which will be held in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Only two other prime ministers - Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee - have been sworn in the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Others have taken oath in the historic Durbar Hall of the palace, which can only accommodate 500 people.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The BJP, along with its allies, has won 336 seats in parliament, a more than comfortable majority.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerji is still undecided whether her MPs will attend the swearing-in ceremony, Media reports</span></div>
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Though the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) was first to introduce PayPal to Sri Lanka through the Sampath Bank, it is revealed that three other banks too have been now earmarked by the CBSL.</div>
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A senior official from the CBSL told AdaderanaBiz, “We were to first introduce PayPal through the Sampath Bank. However, we now plan to introduce this service to the country through four banks. We also plan to gradually involve the rest of the banks in the country.”</div>
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While the CBSL is discussing with the PayPal branch in India to introduce the service to Sri Lanka, PayPal’s Indian arm has reportedly requested a report on Sri Lanka’s exports.</div>
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The senior CBSL official told AdaderanaBiz that they would be submitting such a report and hence the introduction of PayPal to Sri Lanka would face a slight delay.</div>
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Though cash cannot be remitted to Sri Lanka through the world renowned PayPal money transfer service sending money from Sri Lanka is possible even now.</div>
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While those who provide services to foreign countries would benefit with the opportunity of cash remittances into Sri Lanka it would also help develop this sector.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">India’s ambassador urged Sri Lanka’s government on Friday to expedite power sharing with ethnic minority Tamils after a recent United Nations resolution authorized an international war crimes investigation.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Ambassador Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha said early talks between the government and the main ethnic Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance, are a “key imperative” and urged the government to create conditions that would lead to a resumption of the dialogue.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The party is seeking wider regional autonomy in Tamil-majority areas ravaged by the civil war, which ended in 2009 with the government’s defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels. The rebels fought for an independent Tamil state.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The talks stalled in 2011 when the government said it wanted issues of greater local autonomy to be discussed by a parliamentary committee, instead of in talks with the Tamil alliance. The party now controls the provincial council in the northern region after winning a majority of seats in an election last year.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Sinha’s comments came a week after the U.N. Human Rights Council authorized an investigation into alleged abuses during Sri Lanka’s civil war. The government has strongly opposed such an investigation, calling it interference in Sri Lanka’s domestic affairs.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has criticized Sri Lanka for making too little progress toward ensuring accountability for alleged atrocities and war crimes during the civil war.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“I hope Sri Lanka will continue to engage constructively with the international community, notwithstanding the adoption of the resolution,” Sinha said in a meeting with journalists Friday.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Our view is that early progress of devolution and a political settlement within the framework of a unified Sri Lanka would be crucial in days to come,” he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">India has a strong interest in the issue because southern India is home to 60 million Tamils, but its government has been reluctant to become directly involved in Sri Lankan politics since a disastrous military intervention during the civil war left more than 1,000 Indian troops dead.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Indian military intervention followed an agreement between India and Sri Lanka that led to an amendment of Sri Lanka’s Constitution and established provincial councils in an effort to end Tamil militancy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Sri Lanka’s government also promised when the three-decade civil war ended to allow a greater degree of autonomy in Tamil-majority regions in the north.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">However, the government has recently backtracked, saying it will take back the land and police powers given to the provincial councils. Indian leaders have expressed dismay at the move.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">India abstained from voting last week when the U.N. rights council approved the U.S.-led resolution, calling it intrusive. Members of the 47-nation council voted 23 to 12 in favor of the resolution, with 12 abstentions, following a heated two-day debate. </span><b style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">- AP</i></b></div>
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The UN’s top rights official began her visit to Sri Lanka Sunday by brushing aside criticism that she overstepped her brief and vowing to raise human rights concerns with Colombo.</div>
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Navi Pillay, who has previously called for a war crimes investigation against Sri Lanka, said she was only holding it to human rights standards agreed to by all nations.</div>
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“I am not writing my own statute. I am looking at the (human rights) framework that was also developed by Sri Lanka,” she told reporters as she began her first meeting with local UN staff in Colombo.</div>
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“If I raise criticism, it is on whether they (Sri Lanka) comply with those standards,” she added. “I have not come to criticise. I have come to raise human rights concerns.”</div>
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Her week-long mission will include talks with President Mahinda Rajapakse and visits to the former war zones in the north and east.</div>
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A pro-government group said it will hold a demonstration outside the UN offices in Colombo on Monday to protest at Pillay’s visit. The same group has held similar protests in the past and called Pillay a US stooge.</div>
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During her visit, Pillay is scheduled to hold talks with local rights activists.</div>
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“We are in the process of finalising our memo to her. We want to talk about the culture of impunity during and after the war,” activist Nimalka Fernando told AFP.</div>
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“We are also specifically taking up the issue of media freedom in Sri Lanka.”</div>
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Fernando said an armed break-in at the Colombo home of a senior journalist at the Sunday Leader newspaper on Saturday could be linked to her work, although police insisted it was only an attempted robbery.</div>
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The attack was the latest of several violent incidents involving the staff of the privately-run newspaper, whose founding editor Lasantha Wickrematunge -- a fierce government critic -- was shot dead while he drove to work in January 2009.</div>
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“The murder of the Sunday Leader editor has still not been solved and this is also something that we will take up,” Fernando said.</div>
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Tamil groups are banking on Pillay’s first visit to Sri Lanka to revive calls for a war crimes probe.</div>
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“We will take up with her the question of accountability, the issue of thousands of missing people, the militarisation of Tamil areas and the lack of political freedoms,” Tamil National Alliance lawmaker Suresh Premachandran told AFP.</div>
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-26693424793212182082013-06-24T12:35:00.001+05:302013-06-24T12:35:48.108+05:30SUSPECT ARRESTED IN MOUNT LAVINIA FOR SELLING ALCOHOL ILLEGALLY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-45901565991156591912013-06-24T12:21:00.000+05:302013-06-24T12:21:47.875+05:30Virginia Court To Hear Edward Snowden NSA Leak Case<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The United States filed a criminal complaint including charges under a U.S. espionage law against Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The charges are the government's first step in an effort to arrest and extradite Snowden from Hong Kong, where he is in hiding, to try him in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Snowden has acknowledged leaking secrets about classified U.S. surveillance programs to the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspaper. On Saturday, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said Snowden had divulged information to the newspaper showing how computers in Hong Kong and China had been targeted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">On Friday, the Guardian reported that documents made available by Snowden showed that Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency, known as GCHQ, downloaded masses of data from telecommunications cables it had tapped into.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In the past 20 years, the U.S. government has racked up remarkable success rates in winning convictions or guilty pleas from people brought before the federal court in Virginia who were accused of espionage or terrorism. Because of its speed, the court is considered a "rocket docket."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Sources say the same court has had a grand jury probe underway of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the website put online confidential U.S. documents allegedly acquired by U.S. soldier Bradley Manning. Court papers show that prosecutors in the Eastern District have subpoenaed message records generated by some of Assange's contacts or associates.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Manning is being court-martialed in connection with the case while Assange has taken refuge in Ecuador's Embassy in London, trying to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault, or the United States.</span><br />
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Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-55285968398600362352013-05-24T19:02:00.001+05:302013-05-24T19:02:24.913+05:30FATHER ACCIDENTLY RUNS OVER SON WHILE BACKING UP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">A one-year-old child died after accidentally being run over by his father’s jeep in Pansala Pokuna Road, Tangalle. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The child’s father was reversing the vehicle which he had accidentally run over his son. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Police said the child, who was critically wounded in the incident, was immediately rushed to the Tangalle Hospital, however succumbed to injuries soon after.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Tangalle Police are conducting further investigations. </span></div>
Sandaruwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321965797138499399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645551745342501656.post-25012295101169622582013-05-23T15:04:00.001+05:302013-05-23T15:04:51.826+05:30NO ATTEMPTS TO ARREST UNP MPS - POLICE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Police today said that there is no attempt to arrest parliamentarians of the United National Party (UNP) in connection with the CID’s ongoing investigations regarding the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking in Parliament recently, had said that there is an attempt to arrest several UNP MPs who had attended in a workshop coordinated by the non-profit organisation.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">However, Police Spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardena stated that there is no attempt or need to arrest any UNP MPs and that the investigation is to determine whether the Friedrich Naumann Foundation had exceeded legal boundaries in operating within the country. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had recorded a statement from Sagarika Delgoda, the Friedrich Naumann Sri Lanka representative, regarding the organization’s operation in the country, he said in a statement today. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Opposition Leader had claimed there is an attempt to arrest UNP MPs who participated in the workshop coordinated by the Friedrich Neumann Foundation accusing them of trying to overthrow the government.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Wickramasinghe had also alleged that some of them were contacted by the CID.</span></div>
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