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Dambulla cave temple, The best preserved sacred venue:
(Daily News – by Rupa Baduwardane)
Situated in the Central Province 82 miles from Colombo, 45 miles from Kandy and 10 miles from Sigiriya is Dambulla the world famous largest and carefully preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka. This has been a sacred [...]
(The Island) Making a welcome address at the 2010 Naro Udeshi Commemoration lecture, the President of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre, Dr Mohamed A Saleem quoted the Mahatma by saying “Sri Lanka and India cannot but be friends”. The chief guest at the occasion was the Indian High Commissioner [...]
(Daily News) Budget speech of Minister of Technology and Research Prof. Tissa Vitarana
The achievements of the President, as Finance Minister and members of the Government and the Treasury during the past four years should be commended. In the context of the global economic crisis, the oil and food crises, and [...]
(ABC) A United Nations report has paved the way for the Government to take a stronger stance against asylum seekers. The report, from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, describes “greatly improved” security in Sri Lanka, and says it should not be presumed that Tamils need asylum.
It says some women and children, [...]
(The Island – by Nury Vitachchi) On the bill at a US comedy show in Long Island this week is a guy called Steve GB, whose tagline is “The World’s Funniest Accountant”. Reader Sammi Tan, who told me about it, was unimpressed. “Not a lot of completion for that [...]
Dr. Vernon L.B. Mendis, (December 5, 1925 – June 23, 2010) – Sri Lanka’s senior most professional diplomat was a trailblazer in the country’s Foreign Service
(Daily News – by Janaka Perera)
He is known as the Father of Sri Lankan Diplomacy. Appointed the first member of Sri Lanka’s Overseas Service by Prime Minister D. S. [...]
( Sri Lanka Guardian – by FS) Seven years ago (in 2003), the local heads of the world’s biggest multilateral agencies made an interesting observation at the annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Economic Association. World Bank’s Peter Harrold, ADB’s John Cooney and IMF’s Jeremy Carter in separate presentations arrived [...]
(The Island – By Gwynne Dyer)
Eighty years ago, just after the First World War and with the world rapidly sliding towards the next, the French philosopher Julien Benda wrote a book called “The Treason of the Clerks” – “clerks” in the medieval sense, educated men, intellectuals, who despite [...]
(Daily Mirror) Nowhere else is the confusion and contradiction in Sri Lanka’s foreign relations more palpable than in Sri Lanka’s ‘India policy’. The Government of the day has no problem acknowledging the silent but significant Indian support for ‘Eelam War IV’ despite domestic developments and international pressures on New Delhi.
Yet, a [...]
(Daily News) The Third South Asian Countries Commodity Fair (SACC) was officially inaugurated at the International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Kunming, the city of ‘Eternal Spring’ on June 6, 2010. Part I of this articles appeared yesterday
At the Third South Asian Commodity Fair there are over 2,000 booths at [...]
(Sunday Observer) As they referred to the IMF, I should remind this House as to how the UNP received aid from the IMF, World Bank and ADB at different occasions.
To begin with they agreed to a set of conditions in 1980 to obtain Rs. 60 million from the World Bank [...]
(The Island) All pregnant women should be given vitamin D supplements to safeguard their babies’ health, researchers have claimed.The study contrasts with official guidance from the National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) which does not support the provision of supplements.
However, experts claimed that women who do [...]
No self respecting government will bow to EU regulations
(Daily Mirror – By Dianne Silva)
Q: After and during your removal from the national list, do you feel that you have the support of the party?
It was solely the decision of the party leader to remove me and maybe a few of his [...]
(Daily News) The UNP and the JVP have now launched their campaigns against the proposed constitutional changes of the Government and majority of their campaign slogans rest on the invective that the ‘Constitution is to be changed to benefit the Rajapaksa family’
Sri Lanka’s sovereignty is in its people. [...]
(RW) I had initially been sorry that I would not be in Sri Lanka for the presentation of the budget and the debate that took place over the last few days. However, reading about the arguments advanced by the opposition, which still seems determined to oppose every action of government as [...]
(Sunday Observer – By P. Krishnasamy)
Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe
The two main plantation crops, tea and rubber, are doing well fetching high prices in the world market and research-based plans have been launched for the long-term sustainability and productivity of the crops, Minister of Plantation Industries Mahinda Samarasinghe told the [...]
(The Island – By K Godage Former Ambassador)
I write further to my article published in your paper today on the letter the EU has sent to the Sri Lankan government over the GSP Plus issue. I have received a huge response by email that I decided to revisit the [...]
(Daily Mirror – by Manel Abeyrathne) The presentation of the recent budget was not only an exercise in verbal dexterity but it also emphasized the Deputy Finance minister’s tenacity to continue to read in measured tones ,with no rushing or swallowing of words, the entire speech and finally concluded with the [...]
(Daily News – by Malinda Senevirathne) There’s a story that’s not getting much coverage in our newspapers. It’s a story that’s 2.5 months old and one second new. It is, in other words, a continuing story, a continuously ‘breaking’ story. It is the story of an oil spill in [...]
(Perambara) The reporting climate in the Eastern Province has markedly improved compared to two years back. We have spent the last two weeks traveling on assignment in remote areas in the Batticaloa and Trincomalee Districts that were for years virtual no-go zones. Access wise this was the best since 2006 when [...]
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