Manjula Wettasinghe Dear Editor, Australian ABC TV recently (9th Feb) telecasted an episode in it’s “Forign Correspondent” program. This was called “Hell or High Water” and was on Sri Lanka’s boat people who arrive at Australian shores as refugees. As we all know these are mostly bogus “economic” regugees rather than real refugees. However this […]

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Kumar Moses After almost 30 years later the Nagadeepa Buddhist Vihara is open to the people. Nagadeepa is very special for Sri Lankan Buddhists as Lord Buddha visited this place around 2,500 years ago. The present large influx of pilgrims is historical. It symbolises the ending of racist demarcations imposed by the LTTE using terror […]

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Ben Silvaƒ”š‚  Media reports (Ref: http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2010/02/21/sec10.asp )ƒ”š‚  indicate the large number of unnecessary road traffic accidents in Sri Lanka. The victims of road traffic accidentsƒ”š‚  include pedestrians, motor cycle riders, schoolchildren, and women pillion riders etc. Hardly a day goes by without something tragic on our highways being reported in our newspapers. The cause of […]

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Press Releases -Gamini Sarath Godakanda Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress and Minister Milinda Moragoda handed over the policy document of the party on the forthcoming General Election titled “Agenda for influencing the Government.”ƒ”š‚ƒ”š‚  to the number of influential Scholars of the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama. Handing over the policy paper the Minister told […]

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by Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy Lakbima The US Embassy is livid.ƒ”š‚  They are pissed off their minds because, “ƒ”¹…”various state media outlets’ had alleged that the United States ofƒ”š‚  America had supported a candidate at the recently held Presidentialƒ”š‚  Election.ƒ”š‚  The US Embassy in Colombo in a special media statement hasƒ”š‚  categorically denied any such involvement […]

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