China pledges greater market access for Lankan exports

CHINA expressed its readiness to continue with its assistance for Sri Lanka’s economic and social development to the best of its ability and pledged to encourage greater market access to Lanka’s exports in China to reduce Sri Lanka’s present trade deficit.

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KKS-bound Tigers had last meal with Prabhakaran

The interrogation of the two Black Tigers- the suicide bombers arrested by the Tamil Nadu police has revealed that they have had the traditional meal with the LTTE leader Prabhakaran before they set on a journey of suicide mission to blow up the Kankesenturai Harbour.

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Turtle-friendly fishing hooks to be introduced here

LONDON’S Marine Conservation Society has joined hands with a British retail chain and fishermen in Sri Lanka to introduce a turtle friendly fishing hook that would save the island’s endangered sea turtles.

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Streamline programmes focusing low-income groups - Minister

New mechanisms and strategies have to be adopted and programmes focusing low-income groups streamlined to develop this export sector and international trade, Export Development and International Trade Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said.

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