News from Guwahati, India The LankaWeb contributor from Northeast India, Nava Thakuria has been elected as one of the Assistant General Secretaries of World Water Forum of Journalists (WWFJ), when the senior Bangladeshi environment journalist Quamrul Islam Chowdhury was re-elected as the General Secretary of the international forum for the year 2009-2012. The British environment […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Gloucester . Ontario Canada September 6, 2009 Hon. Jack Layton, MP (NDP, Toronto-Danforth);ƒ”š‚  Wayne Marston, MP (NDP, Hamilton East-Stoney ; Paul Dewar, MP (NDP, Ottawa Centre); Peter Julian, MP (NDP, Burnaby); Jim Karygiannis, MP (Liberal, Scarborough-Agincourt); Robert Oliphant, MP (Liberal, Don Valley West) Dan McTeague, MP (Liberal, Pickering-Scarborough East); Hon. Bob Rae, MP […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana Nearly one hundred and fifty UK residents of Sri Lankan origin held a very vociferous demonstration in front of London’s Channel Four television broadcasting station calling it a bogus news service. They were hoisiting placards which said “Chanel 4 now say Sorry”ƒ”š‚, “Miller means twisted stories”ƒ”š‚, “Chanel four broadcasts shameful lies”ƒ”š‚ , […]

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