By Philip Fernando ƒ”š‚ BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India and China are the cynosure of the world. The four countries are beginning to be dominant economies. They would equal or surpass USA, Germany, Japan and France as a bloc within the next two decades. The economist who predicted that in 2001 was Jim O’Neill, chief economist for […]

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ƒÆ’‚¯ƒ”š‚»ƒ”š‚¿ LankaWeb Weekly Editorial May 18th 2011 ƒ”š‚ Seems a bit high handed on the part of India to urge the Sri Lankan Government for the early withdrawal of emergency regulations and investigations into allegations of human rights violations. So what gives India the right to such a dictate? Jayalalitha’s post election “homily” to Sri Lanka […]

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By Albert J. Fernando, Canada During the last several months there had been quite a spate of articles contributed by individuals and organizations criticizing the Sri Lanka Government and security forces alleging that leaders of LTTE who offered to surrender bearing a white flag had been killed by the military at the final phase of […]

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