China-Sri Lanka should enhance economic relationship
 

In modern times, shortly after Sri Lanka received her independence and the People's Republic was established, within one year of each other, the two countries signed what is known as the Rubber-Rice Pact. I understand that this was the first trade agreement that China signed with a non-Communist country. (President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's statement at the China Investment, Tourism and Trade Promotion seminar in Beijing, yesterday.)

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Rare treat as French opera set in Sri Lanka opens in India
 

French composer Georges Bizet may never have imagined that his first opera, "The Pearl Fishers", would ever be performed in the land in which it was set but on Wednesday it comes closer to Sri Lanka than ever before.

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