Welcome to Sri Lanka (0)
6/02/09 •
Sri Lanka, also known as Ceylon, is an island separated from her nearest neighbour India by just 29 km across the Palk Straits in the Indian Ocean. (located south / south east of the Indian peninsula). Sri Lanka is a land of a varied sceneries. No other country can boast of such varied natural landscapes, [...]
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Channel 4 can’t play it both ways when it comes to the law (0)
2/08/10 •
Denial of injunction over Jackson show case flags up challenges for C4’s new chief executive
Channel 4 is in court for a documentary it aired last year on the pressing issue of the putative relocation of the Jacksons, the American musical family, to a seaside resort in Devon. Now it is not, as you may think, [...]
Letters: Ofcom not exploited (0)
2/08/10 •
Jon Snow is absolutely right when he says that Ofcom’s complaints function must not be used by governments “to curb … investigative reporting [to] hide from public scrutiny” (A watchdog exploited, 5 February). But, contrary to the suggestion contained in your headline, Ofcom did not allow the Sri Lankan government to exploit our procedures, when [...]
A watchdog exploited | Jon Snow (0)
2/04/10 •
The way Sri Lanka used Ofcom to curb Channel 4 reports of its atrocities has chilling implications
The scandal of Britain’s libel laws and their facility for libel tourism is well known. So too is our cavalier attitude to freedom of speech. But the idea that a country with one of the worst records for press [...]
British-based Tamils vote for independent state in Sri Lanka (0)
2/01/10 •
Poll shows 99% support for 1976 resolution calling for sovereign nation in north of country
British-based Tamils have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the creation of an independent sovereign state in Sri Lanka, days after the man credited with crushing the Tamil Tigers’s 26-year rebellion won a second term as the island’s president.
Nearly 65,000 members of [...]
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