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Capital Maharaja takes fight for Sri Lanka’s migrant workers to the UN

Sep 25, 2017 Lahiru Fernando Local, News Ticker, Top Slider, World 0

UNITED NATIONS (September 21, 2017)- Did you know that over 40 Million people around the world are believed to be victims of Modern Day Slavery, and one in four of them were children? These are the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel re-elected for a fourth term

Sep 25, 2017 Lahiru Fernando Local, News Ticker, World 0

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term. Adding to that, nationalists have made a historic surge in federal elections. Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc has seen...

SL born Krishanti running for Maryland Governorship

Sep 24, 2017 Lahiru Fernando Local, News Ticker, Top Slider, World 0

A Sri Lankan national is running for Governor of Maryland, United States. 37 year-old Democrat, Krishanti Vignarajah, is a former policy director for then-first lady Michelle Obama. She officially...

3.4-magnitude earthquake detected in North Korea

Sep 23, 2017 Keshala Dias Local, News Ticker, Top Slider, World 0

China’s earthquake administration says a magnitude-3.4 earthquake has been detected in North Korea. The quake is believed to have been caused by a suspected explosion and was detected in the...

Mass protest in Philippines over Duterte ‘dictatorship’

Sep 22, 2017 Ranee Mohamed News Ticker, World 0

Thousands of people in the Philippines have attended a day of protest over President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial law-and-order policies.Opponents criticised Mr Duterte’s open threat...

Singapore baggage handler ‘swapped hundreds of tags’

Sep 21, 2017 Ranee Mohamed Local, World 0

A baggage handler at Singapore’s international airport allegedly swapped hundreds of baggage tags, sending luggage to the wrong destination. Tay Boon Keh has been charged with 286 counts of...

Mexico: Strong earthquake topples buildings, killing scores

Sep 20, 2017 Ranee Mohamed Local, News Ticker, World 0

A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing more than 140 people.The 7.1 magnitude quake toppled dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City, including a school where several children...

Hurricane Maria ‘devastates’ Dominica: PM

Sep 19, 2017 Ranee Mohamed Local, News Ticker, World 0

Dominica has suffered “widespread damage” from Hurricane Maria, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says.”We have lost all that money can buy,” he said in a Facebook post. The...

Chinese ‘adult’ doll rental service suspended amid controversy

Sep 19, 2017 Ranee Mohamed Life Style, Local, World 0

A Chinese company offering sex dolls for rent has withdrawn its services just days after launching.Touch had begun offering five different sex doll types for daily or longer-term rent on Thursday in...

Warning over ‘catastrophic’ Maria

Sep 19, 2017 Ranee Mohamed Local, News Ticker, World 0

Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a “potentially catastrophic” category five storm, US forecasters say, as it bears down on islands in the Caribbean.The island of Dominica is one of the...