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Happy New Year (in April)! — A spotlight on Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Cambodia’s new year celebrations

April 21, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Unlike the Gregorian calendars that start the year on Jan. 1, most South Asian countries use lunisolar calendars that start the year at the beginning of spring.

Filed Under: Cultures Tagged With: 2011, Aluth Avurudu, Bangladesh, Bisket Jatra, Cambodia, Chaul Chnam Thmey, Happy New Year, Khmer New Year, Moha Sangkran, Mughal Emperor Akbar, Nepal, Pohela Boishakh, Sakyamuni Satya, Sinhala New Year, South Asian, Sri Lankans, Thailand, Vol 30 No 17 | April 23 - April 29, West Bengal

Sri Lanka says civil war over, rebel leader killed

May 21, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ravi Nessman The Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Following three bloody decades of civil war, Sri Lanka faces the daunting task of trying to reconcile and rebuild after its troops routed the last Tamil Tiger separatist rebels on Monday, May 18, and killed their feared leader.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2009, Black Tigers, COLOMBO, Charles Anthony, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Jason Straziuso, Lal Hettige, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Pottu Amman, Sarath Fonseka, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Sri Lankans, State Department, Tamil Tigers, Though Rajapaksa, United States, Vishnu Prakash, Vol 28 No 22 | May 23 - 29

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