President's Office clarifies tsunami aid mechanism
 

A media communique issued by the Presidential Secretariat yesterday expressed concern over UNP Media Spokesman Professor G. L. Peiris' recent statement to say that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has stated that not a single cent received as international tsunami aid reached her and described this as a complete distortion of facts.

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Samurdhi Movement on a new path
 

THE Samurdhi Movement, a key State mechanism to alleviate poverty, will be streamlined under a new program formulated by the Samurdhi and Poverty Alleviation Ministry. This will revitalise the Samurdhi Movement neglected during the UNP regime.

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