New dimensions in Lanka-Italy ties

I have found that the Italian Government is friendly and very well disposed towards Sri Lanka. The Italian community respects Sri Lanka as a country. I have been able to impress the Italian Government on the gratitude with which the Sri Lankan Government and its people remember Italy and its people specially after the tsunami disaster.

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Advantages of mobiles outweigh disadvantages

It is heartening to note that the man responsible for the mobile communication phenomena, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, resides, none other than in Sri Lanka. What Sir Arthur probably had in mind was an excellent, economical, practical and brilliant mode of communication within and between continents by the simple device of bouncing radio waves off geo-physical stationary satellites in orbit around the earth.

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