'Education can break vicious poverty cycle'

Statistics, they say, conceal more than they reveal. Not always, though. On September 8, the International Literacy Day, China announced it still has 85 million illiterate people. Most of them are clustered in the country's less developed rural areas of the landlocked western regions.

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A Peace Retreat in the wilds

Wasgomuwa National Park is a yet to be discovered haven which could provide solace to a tired mind and an atmosphere for meditation and relaxation. This is a place to which one could `retreat' and be at peace with oneself and nature. An ideal jungle hideout from the busy helter skelter life in the cities.

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