Word: lanka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...virtues of this singular insulation are acknowledged by even the government's critics: while superpower tensions have torn Indochina asunder, civil and incivil wars have haunted even such tiny neighbors as Sri Lanka, and booming Asian powers like Singapore and Japan have had to bear the costs of sudden prosperity, Burma has remained serenely on the geopolitical sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped...
...President thinks that one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives." KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels...
Five students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) won a design contest for their plan to develop tsunami-safe housing in areas struck by the December 2004 disaster. A prototype of their award-winning design is slated to be built in Sri Lanka by November...
Ratti contacted the Buddhist chaplain at MIT, who is also a member of a Buddhist organization in Sri Lanka, and arranged for a prototype of the student’s design to be built as a community center in Sri Lanka...
...Osaka on April 25, Japan's worst rail disaster since 1963 90 sec. Amount of time the train was behind schedule, which investigators suspect prompted the driver to accelerate to dangerous speeds to catch up 37 Number of people killed when a train hit a passenger bus in Sri Lanka on April 27; officials believe the bus driver was racing another bus when he cut in front of the train...