JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Canada's border agency told Lakshikan Punitharasa to report at 7:20 a.m. on Thursday to Room 2320.2A, a small office on the arrivals level of Vancouver International Airport's international terminal, three hours before a flight out of the country. If no officer was at the desk, he was to pick up a telephone mounted on the wall to the right of the reception counter, which would ring the agency's security guards, and give his name. The letter, dated Oct. 28 and served on him i

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: A delegation from the Communist Party of China is expected to visit Sri Lanka soon to brief members of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the party at the core of the governing National People’s Power coalition, on the Chinese party’s approach to internal discipline and party building, according to the J.V.P.’s general secretary, Tilvin Silva. Mr. Silva said in a Facebook post that he had been told of the planned visit during a meeting on Thursday with China’s ambassador, Wei Hu

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka: An association of families of people who disappeared during Sri Lanka’s civil war has elected a new leadership in Jaffna district. It has also announced a protest at the Chemmani mass grave site to reject an archaeologists’ interim report that found the burials more closely resembled formal interment than a clandestine grave. The Jaffna District Association of Relatives of the Enforced Disappeared held the election at the Sivaguru Aadheenam hall in Nallur. Sivanandan Jeyatha

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka: Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, the former Eastern Province chief minister who is being held on remand in several criminal investigations, has accused unnamed “fake nationalists” in Batticaloa of sabotaging an administrative settlement of the dispute over the Mayilathamadu and Madhavanai grazing lands. Subramaniyam Jeevanraj, a functionary of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal, the party Mr. Chandrakanthan leads, made his remarks public. In a Facebook post written in Tami