Vietnam, Sri Lanka: A lasting bond of friendship
Sri Lankan's ambassador to Vietnam, Aparekka
Ratnapala, spoke to Vietnam News on the occasion of Sri Lanka's
National Day.
The people of Sri Lanka are of diverse
ethnicities and faiths. The country is an ancient centre of Buddhist
religion and culture. The ethnic majority are the Sinhalese, who are
mostly Buddhists, and minorities include Tamils, Moors and Burghers.
Sri Lanka has an export-oriented economy with a widely expanding
service sector. Tea, rubber and coconut are important export
agricultural crops, with tea being a major foreign exchange earner.
Other crops of importance are cocoa and spices such as cinnamon,
cardamom, pepper and cloves.
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Gender, climate change and natural disasters
The recent spate of "natural" disasters (some of
which are "climate related", some are not) all over the world caused
me to wonder whether their effects are evenly spread between the
sexes. Logically, human beings of both sexes should react in much
the same way to environmental threats, and any differences in the
effect of disasters between the sexes should be fairly small.
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Abominable terror that snatched young lives in their prime
The clock which stopped at 2.10 p.m would be
repaired in the near future and its hands would weave back and forth
once again. But those young hearts which stopped ticking at 2.10 p.m
on February 03, 2008, would never tick again. The life journey they
began with so much hope and dreams is shattered so cruelly, on the
concrete floor of a railway station to appease the bloodlust of
terrorists.
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