In this country where there is an abundance of natural resources and every prospect pleases, age is no barrier to earn a living if a person has the will to do so. Here an elderly woman who earns her daily bread by selling betel by the roadside prepares her wares in the morning before her customers arrive on their way to office and worksite.  Picture by Sudath Nishantha

by Sarath Malalasekera and Asanga Warnakulasuriya

Colombo District Parliamentarian and former Minister Ravi Karunanayake is to be questioned this week by the Colombo Crimes Division in the course of their investigations into the Rs. 2 billion roofing sheet scam.
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Prestigious Ceres award for President

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga will be awarded the prestigious Ceres Medal in recognition of her longstanding efforts and commitment to international partnership and food security as a means of achieving a world free of hunger and poverty.
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• Improving English in schools and universities

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