People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse received a boost here Tuesday in his re-election bid as an Indian Tamil party pledged support to him in the January 2010 presidential poll. "We will be supporting the President (Rajapakse)", Muthu Sivalingam the deputy leader of Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) told reporters. CWC is a trade union political party representing the plantation workers...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse received a boost here Tuesday in his re-election bid as an Indian Tamil party pledged support to him in the January 2010 presidential poll. "We will be supporting the President (Rajapakse)", Muthu Sivalingam the deputy leader of Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) told reporters. CWC is a trade union political party representing the plantation workers...
Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Sri Lanka's main parties Monday traded charges over claimed death threats on General Sarath Fonseka, the former Army chief and the common opposition challenger to incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse in the presidential election. Fonseka, the Commander of the Army when the government won the military battle with the Tamil Tiger rebels, has filed the Supreme Court seeking enhanced personal security...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Sri Lanka's main parties Monday traded charges over claimed death threats on General Sarath Fonseka, the former Army chief and the common opposition challenger to incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse in the presidential election. Fonseka, the Commander of the Army when the government won the military battle with the Tamil Tiger rebels, has filed the Supreme Court seeking enhanced personal security...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Sri Lanka's ex-military chief Sarath Fonseka on Sunday formally announced his bid to challenge his former boss President Mahinda Rajapakse in January 26 elections.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
With Sri Lanka's main opposition making former Army chief General Sarath Fonseka as their common candidate in the forthcoming presidential election, President Mahinda Rajapakse has appointed a strong committee to kick off his re-election campaign, officials close to the president said on Saturday. The committee, led by Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake and Rajapakse's younger...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
With Sri Lanka's main opposition making former Army chief General Sarath Fonseka as their common candidate in the forthcoming presidential election, President Mahinda Rajapakse has appointed a strong committee to kick off his re-election campaign, officials close to the president said on Saturday. The committee, led by Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake and Rajapakse's younger...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The Sri Lankan general who led troops to victory over Tamil separatists after decades of war formally announced on Sunday that he would try to unseat the president in January elections. Sarath Fonseka declared he would stand against President Mahinda Rajapakse, who claims credit for the defeat of Tamil Tigers in May that ended the island's bloody ethnic conflict. Fonseka told reporters...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Sri Lanka's ex-military chief Sarath Fonseka on Sunday formally announced his bid to challenge his former boss President Mahinda Rajapakse in January 26 elections.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
General Sarath Fonseka, the opposition front runner in the island's next presidential election, pledged reform and good governance in the future presidency held by him. Announcing his candidature here Sunday as the opposition's common candidate against the incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse, Fonseka said the island's governance has suffered by high corruption, stifling of democracy and freedom...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
General Sarath Fonseka, the opposition front runner in the island's next presidential election, pledged reform and good governance in the future presidency held by him. Announcing his candidature here Sunday as the opposition's common candidate against the incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse, Fonseka said the island's governance has suffered by high corruption, stifling of democracy and freedom...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Sri Lanka's ex-military chief Sarath Fonseka on Sunday formally announced he would challenge his former boss President Mahinda Rajapakse in January 26 elections. Fonseka declared his candidacy at a packed press conference where he vowed to reform the president's role, which he said currently had the potential to produce "tin-pot dictators". "If I am elected, I will scrap...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Sri Lanka's ex-military chief has said he plans to run for the presidency in elections in January in a bid to unseat President Mahinda Rajapakse.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
The Welfare General Committee (WGC) of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Jaffna demands the speedy resettlement of IGPs in their own places occupied by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in its High Security Zones (HSZs) in Jaffna peninsula before the Presidential elections, WGC sources said. WGC has decided to present its request directly to Sri Lanka President, Mahinda Rajapakse when he visits...
