Rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy, the refugees were crammed onto a fishing boat after more than two weeks at sea, probably ...

The Sri Lanka Navy’s SLNS Vijayaba of the Eastern Naval Command, apprehended 9 persons and seized 2 dinghies, for illegal fishing using unauthorised nets, during a search operation conducted in the ...

By WM Wickremesinghe Trincomalee Acting Magistrate Abdul Saleem has ordered that the 12-member crew of a boat that entered Sri Lankan waters with 103 Myanmar refugees on board be remanded. The crew ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake highlighted the critical challenge of transforming Sri Lanka’s public service into an ...

A boat carrying more than one hundred Rohingya refugees and crew members was taken into custody by Sri Lankan maritime border authorities off the Mullivaikkal coast in the Northeast on Friday after ...

RAKHINE, Dec 21 — A rebel army in Myanmar said it had captured a major military headquarters in the country's west, marking ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake committed to not allowing the use of Sri Lankan territory for any anti-Indian ...

The crew of the fishing trawler from which Sri Lanka navy rescued over 100 Rohingya refugees in the island’s coast off ...

We are still unable to verify the cause for their distress in the sea or where they were heading,” the navy spokesman said on ...

Refugee vessel in SL: crew remanded, Myanmar refugees sent to detention center. Most visited website in Sri Lanka.

THE navy said it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.The group, including 25 children, ...

Sri Lanka’s navy said on Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from  war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off ...