 |  |
| Pogrom in Myanmar? |
 LAST spring, a flowering of
democracy in Myanmar mesmerised
the world. But now,
three months after the democracy
activist Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi won a parliamentary seat, and a
month after she travelled to Oslo to
belatedly receive ... |
|
| |  |
| SMALL IS SO
BEAUTIFUL |
 OUR subject for today is the
care and feeding of small
businesses. "I love you
guys," Mitt Romney told a
teleconference hosted by
the National Federation of
Independent Business. "I love the
fact that you're working hard to follow
your dreams ...
|
|
| | |
|
|
|
|
Sri Lanka arrests 131 boatpeople heading to Australia
AFP
COLOMBO SRI LANKAN authorities arrested another 131 would-be asylum seekers heading to Australia and seized a fishing trawler used for the peoplesmuggling operation, police and naval officials said on Sunday.
The navy detected the trawler carrying 109 people off the island’s eastern coast on Saturday and it was being escorted to the port of Trincomalee, 260 kilometre northeast of the capital Colombo. “The men on board were heading for Australia,” a navy official said asking not to be named. “We are handing over these people to the police for further investigations and necessary action.” Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said 22 other people thought to be preparing to leave the island illegally aboard a different trawler were also arrested on Saturday. The number of Sri Lankans detained on charges of illegally trying to leave the country has reached more than 250 over the last week.
The latest arrests come after a number of vessels have sunk at sea as illegal immigrants head to Australia from various poverty-hit countries, including Sri Lanka.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
