Fishermen haul in their catch at the fishing village of Wadduwa, The giant Madel net had been laid out earlier in the morning and everyone in the neighborhood gave a hand in hauling it with the catch. The helpers are rewarded with a small share of fish for their labour. REUTERS

New vistas for plantations

by Ravi Ladduwahetty

The Government's proposed deregulation of the plantation sector in its economic agenda for 2002 will enable the 23 Regional Plantation Companies enter new vistas through projects such as power generation, gem mining, tourism, forestry, crop diversification value added agro-industry, Minister of Plantation Industries Lakshman Kiriella told the Daily News yesterday.
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Home grown economic reform package on way

Economic Reforms, Science and Technology Minister Milinda Moragoda who is now in Washington has told the IMF and World Bank officials that the UNF government will implement a fully home grown economic package in the coming months containing all the good economic policies of the previous administration and strategies of the new government.
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Mahapola arrears next week

by Manjula Fernando

The University Grants Commission has directed all universities to settle the university students' Mahapola bursaries with arrears by February 8, UGC Chairman Prof. Ranjith Mendis told the Daily News yesterday.
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'Huge EC support, if peaceful solution found'

The European Union has expressed its willingness to support large- scale rehabilitation work in the North-East in the event of a peaceful solution to the ethnic conflict, the EU's Environment Commissioner, Margot Wallstrom said on Thursday delivering the Dr. A. C. S. Hameed commemoration lecture at the BMICH.
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