US busts LTTE’s Asian weapons network

Plot to buy and transfer arms to Tigers bared:

US authorities said they had busted an arms-trafficking gang, arresting six Asians who had been trying to smuggle weapons from the United States to the LTTE. Singaporean Haniffa Bin Osman, 55, was the latest person to plead guilty in the investigation,

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EU steps up anti-LTTE action

THE US action comes in the wake of the arrest of 17 Tiger suspects, including one French national, in Paris on April 1 after a probe lasting more than one year.

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Work on Upper Kotmale second phase begins

THE second phase of the Upper Kotmale Hydropower project, one of the major power projects aimed at averting possible future power shortages will be inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Niyamgamdora, Kotmale on Monday.

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Sea Tiger boat destroyed

ONE Tiger suicide boat was destroyed, killing two cadres on board, as Naval troops engaged five Sea Tiger boats heading towards the Southern seas yesterday around 10.40 a.m., Navy Spokesman Commander D.K.P. Dassanayaka told the Daily News.

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SriLankan offers cabin crew training programme

THE International Aviation Academy, the training arm of SriLankan Airlines, is offering young men and women the opportunity of commencing exciting careers in aviation by training as Cabin Crew.

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