Remains of underworld member ?Kosmalli? found

Indonesian plane with 54 people on board missing

An Indonesian twin-turboprop aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote, forested eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said, with search efforts hampered by failing light as night falls. “We can’t confirm it has crashed. We can say contact has been lost with the plane,” BASARNAS chief Bambang Soelystyo told Reuters by phone. “It’s a Trigana airline plane carrying 54 people including 5 crew. We are working to get m

16 Aug, 2015

PM says all projects will be on Lanka’s terms

Calling former President Mahinda Rajapaksa?s China-focussed foreign policy an ?aberration? and ?blunder?, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said from now on all projects in the island nation will be on Sri Lankan terms, The Hindustan Times reported. Assuaging India?s apprehensions about China being handed out a piece of ?sovereign land? in the temporarily suspended China-funded Colombo Port City Project (PCP), Wickremesinghe said: ?There will be no sovereign territory (in Sri Lank

16 Aug, 2015

UK deputy envoy notes Lanka?s property laws complex

The?Deputy British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives,?Laura Davies, notes that Sri Lanka?s property laws are complex and difficult to navigate, especially for foreigners. She said this in a blog posting after a visit to Galle?where she?spent time with a few of the 5,000 long term British residents in Sri Lanka. Particularly on the South Coast, many are involved in tourism, running small hotels and guest villas that keep Sri Lanka?s tourism figures booming and spread its economic

15 Aug, 2015