By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. former Government Agent, Matara District ƒ”š‚ Limitations of Foreign Investment and the Private Sector Senior Minister Sarath Amunugama hasƒ”š‚  recently said that both Foreign Investment as well as the Private Sector have not contributed as expected for our development. This is true because of inherent factors. Foreign Investment depends on the activities […]

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Asada M Erpini “Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran admitted that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is “ƒ”¹…”meaningless’ and that the TNA had rejected it right from the start”ƒ”š‚, goes a report in the Sunday Observer on 18 November. ƒ”š‚ This writer, as well as the large majority of the peace-loving in Sri Lanka […]

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An opinion by Sanjaya Arachchige ƒ”š‚ The mechanism that UN has put in place to “leak”ƒ”š‚ information that is intended to be leaked is admirable.ƒ”š‚  The second report that it leaked about Sri Lanka few days ago has served its purpose like the first one. Since the report has been ƒ”š‚ officially released, it is appropriate for […]

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Ira de Silva London, Ontario, Canada Many articles have been written regarding the report from the U.N. claiming failure in Sri Lanka during the last stages of the war against the Tamil terrorists in May 2009. This implies that the U.N. considers itself “successful” in the almost thirty years that the Tamil terrorists waged war […]

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Byƒ”š‚ Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka ƒ”š‚ My last conversation with Prof Peter Schalk was in the faculty dining room at Georgetown University in the fall of 2005, when I was a visiting professor at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. We were speaking at seminar on conflict in the Asian region […]

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by Walter Jayawardhana Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Astrobiological Center at the Buckingham University, England said the recent phenomenon of red rain in Sri Lanka is reportedly similar to the red rain in Kerala in 2011 and 2009 which definitely had some cosmic connection In an email interview with this correspondent he said, “from […]

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PRESS RELEASE The High Commission of Sri Lanka London Fifteen Venerable members of the Maha Sanghaƒ”š‚  from several Buddhist Viharas in the United Kingdom gathered to invoke blessings on His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a Pirith Chanting and Sanghika Dana organised by the Sri Lanka High Commission in London. Chief Incumbent of the London […]

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