1550 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=185489May 31, 2018, 10:09 pm (L-R) - Sudath Madugalle - Deputy Director General - Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, Jagath Abeysinghe - President - Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, P. G. Kumarasinghe Chairman - SLT Mobitel, Nalin Perera CEO - Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd, Prabhath Gamage - General Manager - Enterprise Business, Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd.Thu, 31 May 2018 21:50:00 +0200island-a2b6b19ee49ca6b5f044e7d589843fe120180531215000https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-22-28-may-2018SRI LANKA. Early monsoon rains and landslides have affected over 43,600 families and killed 23 people. The worst affected provinces are Southern, Western, North-Western and Sabaragamuwa. Rains are expected to temporarily reduce and ease flood levels. 43,600 families affected. INDONESIA.Mon, 28 May 2018 10:39:00 +0200reliefWeb-c75875c97ba539f839c77720fa13cb4020180528103900http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2018/05/27/business/insurance-industry-acts-fast-deploys-loss-adjustersThe National Insurance Trust Fund Board (NITF) has released Rs. 40 million to provide immediate emergency relief to the flood affected and displaced people, NITF Chairman Manjula de Silva said. He said the NITF provides the funds while the relief measures are being carried out through the Ministry....Sat, 26 May 2018 20:45:00 +0200sundayobserver-31f9c2e3bf0f0e79a1c339e8bf5a83bb20180526204500http://www.colombopage.com/archive_18A/May24_1527186198CH.phpSri Lanka Army, Navy continue to provide relief services to flood affected people Thu, May 24, 2018, 11:53 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 24, Colombo: With more rains predicted worsening the disaster situation in the country, Sri Lanka security forces continue to provide rescue....Thu, 24 May 2018 21:00:00 +0200slmuslims-aad60dfe3b4a8f50a6de75658312874b20180524210000