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Tuesday, 14 May 2002 |
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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday observed that in the
wake of the multi-fibre agreement coming to an end in 2005 the employment
prospects of 45% of our workforce was in jeopardy and that the time had
arrived to build a new economy to arrest this trend. Dangerous increase in asthma by Bharatha Malawaraarachchi About 10 - 15 per cent of schoolchildren in Sri Lanka are affected by
asthma, according to an on going study carried out by the International
Study on Asthma and Allergies in Childhood. Construction begins at Upper Kotmale by Ranil Wijayapala The Power and Energy Ministry will commence the construction work on
the 150 MW Upper Kotmale hydropower project targeting to meet the future
power demand of the country on May 20 amidst protests by environmentalists
over the project. by Ravi Ladduwahetty The Finance Ministers of China and Korea in individual meetings with
Finance Minister K.N. Choksy in the backdrop of the ADB Board of Governors
meeting in Shanghai, China have pledged support for investments in Sri
Lanka. Other Stories
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