28 August 2011
Though Sri Lanka is an island with rich fish deposits, it’s heartbreaking to note that the country imports fish while its neighbour, Maldives, is using the ocean to its maximum advantage and its number one foreign exchange earner is the fisheries industry. This has helped the tiny nation to boast a better per capita income [...]
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28 August 2011
Attorney-at-Law Kalyananda ThiranagamaSenior LecturerDr. Praneeth AbeysundaraDr. Ajith Tennekoon, ConsultantJudicial Medical OfficerDIG Police, Galle Vjaya Amarasuriya The existing laws on "child abuse and harassment of women" are being implemented in a very lenient manner, Attorney-at-Law, Kalyananda Thiranagama said. If the existing laws and regulations were properly implemented child abuse and harassment of women could be reduced [...]
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28 August 2011
Sri Lanka, with a recorded history of over 2,500 years, was under British rule for 133 years from 1815. The British rule made a great impact on the spheres, of socio-economic standards, culture, civilisation, religion and education of the country. However, with the passage of time Sri Lanka’s great leaders of yesteryear realised the importance [...]
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28 August 2011
A major part of the northern Sri Lanka was devastated by a high magnitude cyclone. Thousands of people living North of Puttalam were displaced and living in camps. Hundreds of children were falling sick and medicine was short in supply. Five C 130 aircrafts from countries of the Pacific rim, including Sri Lanka were carrying [...]
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28 August 2011
Plantation Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe who also oversees the subject of human rights, in an interview with the Sunday Observer says the lifting of the Emergency is a commitment the Government has fulfilled to ensure that the right conditions exist on the ground for national reconciliation. “There are certain points of view now being expressed that [...]
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28 August 2011
The following is the speech presented by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Parliament last Thursday where he proposed that the Emergency Regulations be lifted. As the President who has participated most in the affairs of the Parliament since the Executive Presidency was established, I am in Parliament today to further demonstrate my determination that there should [...]
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28 August 2011
The market sentiments were weak today in line with the overall global uncertainties. Besides, on certain counters such as PC House Plc, Multi Finance Plc notable levels of profit realizing were depicted. The market turnover reached Rs.2.3bn. ASI closed 6,928.03, down 23.61 points (-0.34%) while sensitive MPI settled at 6,292.35, down 42.06 points (-0.66%). HVA Foods [...]
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28 August 2011
TOKYO: Ratings agency Moody's downgraded Japan's sovereign rating by one notch on Wednesday, heaping more pressure on the country's political leaders to address the industrialised world's largest debt. Moody's cut Japan's government bond rating to Aa3 from Aa2, citing "large budget deficits and the build-up in Japanese government debt since the 2009 global recession" compounded [...]
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28 August 2011
The term Doctrine of Necessity is a term used to describe the basis on which extra-legal actions by state actors, which are designed to restore order, are found to be constitutional. The maxim on which the doctrine is based originated in the writings of the medieval jurist Henry de Bracton and similar justifications for this [...]
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28 August 2011
CRICKET: Sri Lanka’s stylish opening batsman Marvan Atapattu cut his 12th Test century when he made 118 to help Sri Lanka make the somewhat handsome score of 407 runs in the first innings of the third and final Test against Australia at the SSC grounds, Maitland Place in the third Test played from March 24 [...]
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