{"id":57546,"date":"2016-08-11T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57546"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:45:13","slug":"tamil-eelam-removed-from-standard-classification-of-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/11\/tamil-eelam-removed-from-standard-classification-of-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Eelam removed from standard classification of countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Ranjith Soysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken action to remove the non -existent country called\u00a0the Tamil Eelam from their\u00a0 date on standard classification of countries due mainly to the\u00a0joint efforts of the concerned Australians of Sri Lankan origin and the High Commission\u00a0of Sri Lanka in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>We highly appreciate the timely action taken by the authorities in spite of the mischief\u00a0makers peddling disinformation to mislead Australia<\/p>\n<p>Ranjith Soysa<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your enquiry<\/p>\n<p>Please note the ABS has never recognised Tamil Eelam as a country.\u00a0 The reference to this group on the ABS website related to the country coding index which is a list created with the purpose of training computers to recognise responses people may provide and categorise them to the standard classification.\u00a0 The coding index has been updated to remove all references to Tamil Eelam. No offence was intended and we regret any that may have been caused.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Howie <\/strong><br \/>\nStandards and Classifications Section \u00a0| \u00a0Statistical Infrastructure &amp; International Branch \u00a0| \u00a0<strong>Australian Bureau of Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjith Soysa The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken action to remove the non -existent country called\u00a0the Tamil Eelam from their\u00a0 date on standard classification of countries due mainly to the\u00a0joint efforts of the concerned Australians of Sri Lankan origin and the High Commission\u00a0of Sri Lanka in Australia. We highly appreciate the timely action taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}