The brutal attack on The Nation Associate Editor Keith
Noyahr spurred five media organizations to stage a protest against
continuing violence against journalists last Friday. The demonstration
was held at Kollupitiya junction under a heavy police presence.
(Pic by Nishan S. Priyantha)
Were Noyahr’s abductors
trying to get a lead on his `sources’?
As Thursday’s abduction and torture of
Keith Noyahr, Associate Editor of The Nation, drew widespread
condemnation, Sunday Island inquiries revealed his tormentors had been
taken him to Dompe and then brought him back to his Dehiwela residence
after Rivira Media Corporation...
TRC delays cost Sri Lanka
Telecom million dollars
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is purchasing a 75% stake
in a Pan-European prepaid telecom organization at a price of US$ 1
million on account of "inordinate delays" at the Telecommunications
Regulatory Commission (TRC) to obtain a wi-max license, SLT has said in
a Stock Exchange filing.
