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BCIS languages awards ceremony

The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) will hold its Languages Awards Ceremony today from 10.00 a.m. at the BCIS auditorium.

First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy Gao Hua will be as the Chief Guest while Lakshman Jayakody, Chairman, BCIS and advisor to the President will be the Guest of Honour.

STC teacher felicitation

The Organising Committee of the Wardens Davidson, Selveratnam and Anandanayagam Era Group of S. Thomas' College Mt. Lavinia, will hold their Teachers' Felicitation ceremony on December 4 at 6.30 p.m. at Sasakawa hall, Colombo 3.

All old boys, well-wishers and friends of the college are invited.

Magazine launch

'Dasu', a quarterly magazine by the Old Boys Association of Christ Church College, Matale will be launched today at the college under the patronage of old boy and former executive director of the Central Bank of Ceylon E.M. Senanayake.

Principal T.B. Mediwaka and the OBA's President M.E. Pushpashantha will be present.

Public lecture

The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) will host Dr. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, eminent South Asian scholar in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) for a public lecture on the' Indo- Pakistan Peace Process' on December 5.

Prof. Cheema is the President of IPRI in Pakistan; an independent research institute dedicated to analyzing and evaluating important national and international politico-strategic issues and developments affecting Pakistan, South Asia, and the World.

Scholarships for students

The Central Province Independent Graduates' Association will award scholarships to 50 students of low-income families at a ceremony at the Vidyartha Vidyalaya auditorium, Kandy tomorrow under the patronage of Central Province Chief Minister, Sarath Ekanayake.

Conference

The fourth International Conference of The Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA) will be held at Suisse Hotel, Kandy from December 2 to 4. This conference is being held for the first time in Sri Lanka will conclude with a visit to the Pemberley Writers Centre in Haputale.

More than 50 papers on a number of subjects such as Literature, Library Science, History, Politics and Diplomacy will be presented by delegates from Australia, India, Malaysia, Canada, Spain, Iceland and Sri Lanka.

Seminar

A seminar on `The Weligama Declaration and the Media's Role in Building Sri Lankan unity' will be held at Marine Grand Hotel, 41, Station Road, Wellawatta on Monday at 5.00 p.m. under the patronage of President, Bakeer Markar Centre for National Unity Imithiyas Bakeer Markar.

Health camp

The Mabole Malay Association (MMA) will conduct a health camp for underprivileged communities in and around Mabole on Sunday at the Al-Ashraff Maha Vidyalaya, Mabole (opposite the Mabole mosque).

Four doctors - two eye surgeons, a dental surgeon and a general physician will be present at the medical camp. Two nurses will be in attendance along with the Red Cross team

Musical show

A musical show will be held at Sri Dharmaloka Hall of the Kelaniya University on December 1 at 6.30 p.m.

Blood donation

A blood donation will be held at the Kelaniya University sports grounds on December 1 at 8.30 am.
 

New stamp for Pieter Keuneman

The Posts and Telecommunications Ministry will issue a new postage stamp to commemorate former Housing and Construction Minister Pieter Keuneman. The cancellation of First Day Cover will be held at the Library and Documentation Board at 3.30 p.m. on December 1.

Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development Minister A. H. M. Fowzie, Constitutional Affairs and National Integration Minister D. E. W. Gunasekara and Pieter Keuneman Commemoration Committee Deputy Secretary R. L. Stephen will participate.

FPA Sri Lanka commemorates World AIDS Day 2008

FPA Sri Lanka will commemorate World AIDS Day this year with a host of programmes and events.

Stationery items will be distributed among the children of parents from Lanka+ (a community of people living with HIV) and will culminate with a ‘Kids Day’. This fun day out will focus on both entertainment and education with visits to the Planetarium, Zoo, Park, Beach and Museum.

FPA Sri Lanka has established a strategic partnership with the Plantation Human Development Trust (PHDT) to carry out sexual reproductive health (SRH) awareness in the plantation sector. In comparison to other areas of the country, indicators reveal that this sector has relatively low knowledge and access to SRH information and services. Bicycles will be distributed to PHDT volunteers working for the prevention of HIV/AIDS.

An awareness programme on ‘The Current Situation and New Trends of HIV/AIDS’ will be held at the FPA Head Office, Bullers Lane and conducted by Dr. Neil Rajaratne.

Tharunyata Hetak seminar

The Ampara district seminar on the GCE (O/L) Examination organised by Tharunyata Hetak organisation on a concept of its President Namal Rajapaksa, to improve the knowledge of students in rural schools with less facilities, will be held at Uhana MV and Damana Uksiripura MV on November 29 and 30 from 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Old Scouts’ inaugural meeting

The inaugural meeting of the Colombo Branch of the Old Rajans Scout Association of Dharmaraja College, Kandy will be held at the Sugathadasa Sports Hotel, Sirimavo Bandaranaike Mawatha, Colombo 14, on Tuesday, December 2 at 6.30 p.m.

Resident camp for children

The International Day of the Disabled falls on December 3. To commemorate the event a resident camp for children will be held at Nittambuwa National Vidyapeetaya from December 1 to 3 with the participation of about 300 disabled children.

Education Minister Susil Premajayantha will be the chief guest of the occasion.

Govt dental clinic branches

Health and Nutrition Ministry has taken steps to branch out the dental clinical services into two sections to provide a better service to the public.

Accordingly, all clinical activities related to mouth surgery, emergency unit of out-patients department and admission of in-patients are to be conducted at the Dental Clinic at Ward Place while out-patients dental clinic, specialist dental units and community dental clinical unit are to be operated at the Fourth Floor, Kidney Hospital, Maligawatte. Health Ministry has also taken steps to recruit 108 dental surgeons to be posted to Polonnaruwa, Anuradhapura, Moneragala, Badulla and Nuwara Eliya districts and also at hospitals in the North and East.

Missing

Depend Kumudumali Perera of No. 59/5, Walls Lane, Modera, Colombo 15 is reported to be missing as from 27.4.2008. Aged 26 years; height 5 feet, long face; lean body, long hair, dressed in green skirt and red T-shirt.

Here whereabouts may be communicated to Children’s and Women’s Bureau: 0112444444.

Paranavidanage Chamini Madusha, daughter of P. W. Gunabandu, No. 227, Hambantota Road, Tissamaharama is reported to be missing from 29.4.2008. Aged 14 years; height 5 feet; round face, hair combed to a side and extends downs to shoulders.

Her whereabouts, if any may be communicated to the above address or 011-2444444 - Childrens and Womens Bureau, Colombo.

Suspects Wanted

Wanted by the Central Province Anti-Terrorist Operation Bureau, as a suspect in the series of bomb explosions that took place in Kandy and Matale in 2006. He is suspected to have operated with another accomplice named Muthusamy Raj Kumara alias Kanna.

Manoj is now reported to be operating in Colombo along with a group of twelve other terrorists.

Any information relating to his whereabouts may be communicated to 091-2222222, Kandy police or 081-2234288 DIG, Central Province.

Suspected of abandoning a six-day old infant at Bambalapitiya railway station on 3.11.2008.

Her whereabouts if any, may be communicated to Bambalapitiya police station: 0112583208 or 011-2588680.

Kanchana Abhayapala lecture

Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement (SLSM) is pleased to announce the arrival of Dr. Kul Gautam (Former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary General of United Nations) at the invitation SLSM to deliver the 18th Kanchana Abhayapala Memorial Lecture on November 28, 2008 at BMICH on the theme Impact of war on the lives of children: A rights perspective.

The Kanchana Abhayapala Memorial Lecture is held annually by the Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement to commemorate the life and death of a human rights defender who sacrificed his life in 1989. Dr. Gautam has dealt with the highest levels of policy making at the United Nations, including the General Assembly, Security Council, ECOSOC and the UNICEF Executive Board. And he oversaw UNICEF cooperation in over 150 developing countries.

Dr. Gautam has been a passionate advocate for cause of child rights and human development. In recognition of his accomplishments, the Himal magazine in Nepal listed him as one of the 101 eminent international personalities of Nepal of the past 100 years. Further information can be obtained from Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement.

EDB Office for Hambantota

An office of the Export Development Board will be opened today by Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris in Hambantota today.

This will facilitate exporters in the Deep South and SME entrepreneurs wishing to find export avenues for their products.

Several other ministers, MPs, provincial councillors and senior EDB officials will participate.