{"id":63135,"date":"2017-02-06T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63135"},"modified":"2017-02-06T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:35:32","slug":"chinese-embassy-dismisses-allegation-of-cbk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/06\/chinese-embassy-dismisses-allegation-of-cbk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Embassy dismisses allegation of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka on Monday has dismissed the allegation raised by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga on the Norochcholai coal power plant.<\/p>\n<p>Chandrika Kumaratunga has said the China\u2019s ambassador to Sri Lanka had told her that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa solicited Rs.15 billion as a commission for the Norochcholai project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CBK makes allegations against MR over coal power plant project (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/geXD7bk9-dw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman of the embassy told Ada Derana that the observation of Kumaratunga is baseless since no discussions had been held between her and the China\u2019s ambassador recently.<\/p>\n<p>Kumaratunga made the observation while speaking at an event held in Attanagalla.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38992\/chinese-embassy-dismisses-allegation-of-cbk#sthash.DJP7H9ea.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka on Monday has dismissed the allegation raised by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga on the Norochcholai coal power plant. Chandrika Kumaratunga has said the China\u2019s ambassador to Sri Lanka had told her that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa solicited Rs.15 billion as a commission for the Norochcholai project. A spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}