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Two Red Cross volunteers abducted in Colombo are killed Colombo (AsiaNews) – Two Sri Lankan Red Cross volunteers were found murdered yesterday, their bullet-riddled bodies dumped in the Ratnapura city area. [1]

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- The pain of Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in May 2009, continues to haunt residents in the eastern coastal town of Batticaloa and its surrounding villages. [2]

PoliticsSri Lanka war crimes project faces critical year for accountability U.N. rights sessions in March likely to shape future of evidence-gathering effort Torches are distributed to protesters, mainly relatives of those who disappeared amid Sri La... [3]

Sri Lanka crisisBankrupt Sri Lanka's poor face life in darkness as price of IMF bailout Hundreds of thousands cut off from grid; fund insists social safety net is a priority Colombo slum residents in July. [4]

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. has teamed up with Taiwan's Gogoro, an up-and-coming manufacturer of electric scooters, in hopes of creating battery-powered communities, starting with a pilot project on Ishigaki Island in the southern ... [5]

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[1] MM asianews.it · 65% match

Two Red Cross volunteers abducted in Colombo are killed

Two Red Cross volunteers abducted in Colombo are killed Colombo (AsiaNews) – Two Sri Lankan Red Cross volunteers were found murdered yesterday, their bullet-riddled bodies dumped in the Ratnapura city area.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-05-01 · 43% match

Sri Lanka faces trade, human rights link

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- The pain of Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in May 2009, continues to haunt residents in the eastern coastal town of Batticaloa and its surrounding villages.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-12-27 · 40% match

Sri Lanka war crimes project faces critical year for accountability

PoliticsSri Lanka war crimes project faces critical year for accountability U.N. rights sessions in March likely to shape future of evidence-gathering effort Torches are distributed to protesters, mainly relatives of those who disappeared amid Sri La

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-11-23 · 40% match

Bankrupt Sri Lanka's poor face life in darkness as price of IMF bailout

Sri Lanka crisisBankrupt Sri Lanka's poor face life in darkness as price of IMF bailout Hundreds of thousands cut off from grid; fund insists social safety net is a priority Colombo slum residents in July.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-02-26 · 35% match

Sumitomo ties with Taiwan scooter maker in battery-swap scheme

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. has teamed up with Taiwan's Gogoro, an up-and-coming manufacturer of electric scooters, in hopes of creating battery-powered communities, starting with a pilot project on Ishigaki Island in the southern

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