Looking back on Point de Galle
Until the end of the 19th century most of the
visitors to this country coming from the West, disembarked at the
port known as Point de Galle, for that was how Galle was known to
the world up to the end of the 19th century. According to Henry
Heusken, an American who was on his way to join the newly opened US
embassy in Japan as its First Secretary, this is how the name Point
de Galle originated.
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Voice of Tigers and the free media
The fact that media freedom is an important tool
of modern civilisation and that its responsible conduct has
crystallised it as the Fourth Estate in national governance is
beyond doubt. In that context if the Government of the day has taken
action to throttle the freedom of expression of its polity impinging
upon this forth estate, then the concerns of UNESCO and the RSF
could well be justified to that particular extent.
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'Government determined to eradicate terrorism, establish peace'
Defence Affairs Spokesman and Minister Keheliya
Rambukwella, in an interview with Asian Tribune, says the Government
is determined to eliminate terrorism and bring in peace.
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Wind Power: Solution to South Asia's energy problem
Power cuts inconvenienced consumers and
industries had to depend more on power generators, which is costly
both in terms of fuel consumption as well as cost of importing the
generation machinery. The authorities in Sri Lanka have in 2005
solved the problem of power shortage by buying power from foreign
power suppliers at high cost, which has caused increased prices to
the consumer and also a great running loss to the Electricity Board.
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