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    Rapp meets Tamil group

    Tamils groups from the US and Britain have met with the US Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues, Stephen Rapp, and his staff at the Washington offices of the State Department this week, reports said. According to reports US and UK representatives of Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) and...
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    Wow - Road Crack

    A five metre wide chasm has mysteriously opened in a busy road. The enormous crevice tore through the ground late last night, causing traffic chaos in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
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    Pictures Of the Day July 1 2010

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    අයවැය බොරු ගොඩක්

    අයවැය බොරු ගොඩක් අයවැය බොරු ගොඩක් - මාර්ග කිලෝ මීටරයක් ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයට වෙන් කරන්නේ රුපියල් 100යි මෙවර අයවැය ලේඛනය කිසිදු වගකීමකින් තොරව අසත්‍ය සංඛ්‍යා සහ දත්ත සහිතව ඉදිරිපත් කළ එකක් බව එය පරීක්ෂා කරන විට පෙනී යයි. එහි ඇති සංඛ්‍ය ලේඛන එකිනෙක සමඟ පරස්පරය. අයවැය ලේඛනයේ 32වන වගන්තියේ මෙසේ...
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    Bus strike - බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ නංවන්නැයි බස් හිමියෝ පව&#3523

    Bus strike - බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ නංවන්නැයි බස් හිමියෝ පව&#3523 බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ නංවන්නැයි බස් හිමියෝ පවසති අවම බස්ගාස්තුව රුපියල් 7ක් දක්වා ඉහළ නැංවීමට ඉඩ නොදෙන්නේ නම් සමස්ත ලංකා බස් රථ වර්ජනයක් දියත් කිරීමට තමන් තීරණය කළ බව සමස්ත ලංකා බස් රථ හිමියන්ගේ සංගමය පවසයි. සමස්ත ලංකා බස් රථ හිමියන්ගේ...
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    GSP Deadline ends, EU wants talks

    The European Union (EU) is attempting to establish contact with the Sri Lankan government over the GSP+ trade benefits to the country after the deadline by the EU for the government to respond to its conditions ended today. EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Bernard Savage...
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    Government Buys Colombo Dockyard Shares

    Sri Lanka's Employee's Provident Fund, a state-managed pension fund of private citizens, bought into a shipbuilding firm based at Colombo port, the firm said in a stock exchange filing. Colombo Dockyard said the Employee's Provident Fund bought 6.8 million shares for 230 rupees each in a...
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    Sri Lanka to import chicken from Brazil

    Sri Lankan government has decided to import 3,000 metric tons of chicken to meet the shortage in the market. Chicken price has escalated despite price control as the traders have raised prices of the products with value addition. Sri Lanka presently produces only 9,000 metric tons of...
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    Fonseka warns State over KP

    Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka has warned the government not to trust former LTTE Chief Arms Procurer Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) as he is a terrorist and could mislead investigations into the activities of the LTTE. Questioning as to why the government had failed to take legal...
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    US reviews Lanka's GSP

    The US government has accepted a petition filed by an American trade union requesting a review of worker rights in Sri Lanka. The move also means a review of the US GSP benefits for Sri Lanka, the US Embassy in Colombo said. In 2008, as part of the annual review process, the American...
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    UN on alert over threat

    The United Nations says its security officials are monitoring comments made by government Minister Wimal Weerawansa who had today urged the public to surround the UN office in Colombo and hold its staff hostage until moves by the UN to appoint a panel on Sri Lanka is dropped. When asked...
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    Wimal : fast unto death

    Sri Lanka government coalition party National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and Minister of Housing and Construction Wimal Weerawansa vowed today to launch a fast unto death unless the panel advised by the United Nations Secretary-General to advise him on Sri Lanka is not dissolved...
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    Pictures Of the Day June 30 2010

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    Gas prices reduced

    The price of a 12.5 Kg Shell gas cylinder will be reduced by Rs 117 and the price of a 12.5 Kg Laugfs gas cylinder will be reduced by Rs 85 with effect from midnight tonight, Consumer affairs minister Johnston Fernando told reporters a short while ago. dailymirror Hitman 2010-06-30 17:25...
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    Wimal : Take UN Lanka staff hostage

    Government Minister Wimal Weerawansa has urged the public to surround the UN office in Sri Lanka and trap the staff inside until a decision is taken by the UN Secretary General to dissolve the panel he appointed on Sri Lanka. Weerawansa told reporters today that the appointment of the...
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    Fonseka forms new party

    General Sarath Fonseka has submitted an application to Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayaka seeking to form his own party under the name ‘Democratic People’s Alliance with Tiran Alles as the General Secretary. The new party will be part of the Democratic National Alliance (DNA)...
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    Chamal warns Mervyn Silva

    Speaker Chamal Rajapakse today warned Deputy Highways Minister Mervyn Silva that he will be sent out of the chamber if he continues to behave in an unruly manner inside the parliament premises. Minister Silva had attempted to angrily answer a question raised by DNA MP Sunil Handunnetti...
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    LTTE to assist UN panel

    The LTTE international network has offered to co-operate with the UN panel appointed by UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon to advice him on Sri Lanka and also urged the committee to protect witnesses who come forward to testify. The LTTE also urged the panel to eventually publish its findings...
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    Fonseka 'ready to talk' with UN panel

    The detained former military commander in Sri Lanka says he is prepared to meet the special panel appointed to advise the UN chief on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka.Gen Sarath Fonseka told BBC Sandeshaya that even President Mahinda Rajapaksa had agreed with the UN to...
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    Namal Rajapaksa & Sarath Fonseka

    Parliament member Namal Rajapaksa, son of Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa, shakes hands with former army chief and MP General Sarath Fonseka, after a presentation at Parliament yesterday of the current budget. Reuters

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