A BOATLOAD of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers found near Cocos Island has been picked up by Australian authorities and will be handed over to the Sri Lankan navy, an official navy spokesman has confirmed. A second senior Sri Lankan navy official told The Australian the asylum-seekers, picked up on a separate boat from that believed to […]
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Sri Lanka tourist arrivals rise 14.3 percent in June 2014
July 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose by 14.3 percent in June this year compared to the same period in 2013, the data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed. The month recorded 103,175 tourists arriving in the country compared to the 90,279 arrived in June 2013. In the first six […]
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