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Muniandy took home a certificate and RM7, 000 cash. Poets V. Vanitha, C. Gunalan, Durai Muniandy and M. Manikumar were also honored with special commendation awards and RM500 cash each.... As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/ medium.... Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item....

They planned to travel on to Montreal and settle there as permanent residents.“ This is the best news I’ve heard in a long, long time, ” Mr.... Snowden tweeted. The move ends a long period of uncertainty for the family, who had sought asylum in Hong Kong but were denied it in 2017.... Kellapatha said he did not worry about hosting Mr....

ISLAMABAD: A high-level trade delegation from Sri Lanka, led by Sri Lankan Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardhana, will be visiting Pakistan by the end of this month to help explore business opportunities in Pakistan. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the 33rd International Achievements Awards and Business Opportunities Conference of the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce Industry( RCCI) while talking to Dawn on his return from Colombo after the successful event.An over 100-member business delegati

TORONTO — A Sri Lankan couple who briefly sheltered ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden in Hong Kong eight years ago arrived with their two children Tuesday in Canada, where authorities granted them protection. Support our journalism.... The group, which included Kellapatha, Nonis and Rodel, agreed. Story continues below advertisement Snowden, who now faces multiple criminal charges in the United States, stayed with them for two weeks before fleeing to Russia where he was granted asylum.... It wa

RAMBUKKANA, Sri Lanka( Reuters)-When K.D. Chaminda Lakshan was wheeled into the Kegalle Teaching Hospital in central Sri Lanka around 6 p.m.on Tuesday, the father of two was fighting for his life. Hours earlier, the 41-year-old had been waiting outside a filling station in the nearby town of Rambukkana, when people angered by long queues for petrol clashed with police. Lakshan was likely hit by live ammunition, which police said they used to scatter the demonstrators, and died later on Tuesday,

The Maldives and Sri Lanka, both highly tourism-dependent tropical islands, have seen the pandemic devastate their economies and finances.... Government debt this year is expected to linger above 100% of gross domestic product in the two small Indian Ocean nations.... Unsurprisingly, both have similar--and similarly poor--credit standings....

By arming Israel, West encouraged belligerents, HRW chief saysIsrael’s mission to the UN in Geneva “ categorically ” rejected the report, decrying “ the inherent obsession of OHCHR with the demonisation of Israel ”.... During the first six months of the attacks, the rights office said, it had managed to verify around 10, 000 of the over 34, 500 people reportedly killed.... At least 4, 700 of the verified fatalities were children and 2, 461 were women, he added. Residential buildings attackedTh

The country has also been paying off external debt it piled on to help rebuild an economy scarred by the bloody civil war between the majority Buddhist Sinhalese and a Tamil minority that’s predominantly Hindu.... He then spent more time hunting for a cylinder of cooking gas, which was also in short supply.“ I don’t know what the government is doing to have brought us to this situation, ” he said in Colombo. Some of the inflation surge is also self-inflicted.... That caused a shortage of nutri