Saturday, May 14, 2011

Japan wants Lanka to work with UN

Friday, May 13, 2011

By Kelum Bandara               Friday, 13 May 2011 00:48 http://print.dailymirror.lk/images/img/taq/logo.gif The Japanese government has asked Sri Lanka to work towards national reconciliation and fulfil its accountability while maintaining close consultations with the United Nations, an official said yesterday.
Responding to a Daily Mirror email request for comments on the UN Advisory Panel Report, Japan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Deputy Media Secretary Hidenobu Sobashima said his country would closely observe the responses by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
“Japan expects the Sri Lankan government to make concrete efforts towards national reconciliation through its domestic process of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission while maintaining close consultations with the UN.
Countries such as India, China and Russia, which Sri Lanka considers its friends, have made statements on the report described by Sri Lanka as the controversial Darusman report.
India has said it would be studying the report while China said on Saturday that it believed the Sri Lankan government and the people would carefully handle the problems arising from the civil war and urged the international community to desist from complicating the issue.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei had made the remarks when asked by the media to comment on the advisory panel report published last week on the armed conflict in Sri Lanka. External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris is expected to visit India on Monday and China on May 24.
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http://www.nypost.com/rw/SysConfig/WebPortal/nypost/images/nyp_logo_230x32.gifMay 12, 2011

Jury scuttles 'jolly Raj-er'

William Farrington
HIGH ON THE HOG: Raj Rajaratnam, yesterday after his insider trading conviction, owns a Greenwich mansion and a Sutton Place co-op.

HIGH ON THE HOG: Raj Rajaratnam, yesterday after his insider trading conviction, owns a Greenwich mansion and a Sutton Place co-op.Greed is not only bad, it could land you in prison for 20 years or more.
A federal jury yesterday clipped the wings of high-flying billionaire hedge-fund guru Raj Rajaratnam, convicting the Galleon Group founder of 14 insider-trading and conspiracy charges -- a landmark prosecution that has sent shivers through Wall Street's corridors.
"Rajaratnam was among the best and the brightest -- one of the most successful and privileged professionals in the country," said Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office prosecuted the burly, 53-year-old trader with damning evidence that included testimony from co-conspirators and wiretapped calls.