Let the civilians leave

*He blames LTTE for breakdown of talks

*Heartwarming that Sinhalese are collecting aid for northern IDPs

We hope that even now the LTTE will change its attitude and let the IDPs in areas it still holds move to other areas, as several thousands of others had already done, Japan’s special envoy for Peace Building, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka Yasushi Akashi told a media briefing in Colombo on Saturday.

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Troops advance further

Capture another earthbund:

The 58 and the 53 Divisions cleared their paths towards the remaining five km stretch of the No Fire Zone after 53 Division stormed another heavily fortified earthbund built across the Paranthan-Mullaitivu A-35 road after close quarter fighting that continued for long in the early hours of yesterday, military officials told the Daily News yesterday.

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New WPC Chief Minister takes oaths today

Prasanna Ranatunge, who obtained the highest number of preferential votes for the winners - the UPFA at the Western Provincial Council polls, will take oaths before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today as the new Chief Minister of the Western Province.

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Triad gets first ever Chillies Grand Prix : Triad won the first ever much anticipated Grand Prix award at the Chillies 2009 which is the first time that the Chillies has awarded a Grand Prix, that gives recognition of the Best of the Best work. Triad’s haul of the night included the award for the ‘Best Campaign of the Year’ together with two Golds, six Silvers, 11 Bronzes and 14 finalist awards. Winning across categories and brands, the work recognised as outstanding were campaigns for Sri Lanka’s top brands like Sri Lanka Telecom, Hutch, Elephant House, Laugfs, Heladiv, Nippolac, CIC, Singer Sri Lanka and Perera & Sons as well as social responsibility initiatives done for Sri Lanka Army and the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing. The self-styled agency lives by its conviction that ‘Sri Lanka Can’ and this latest performance at the Chillies is an endorsement of its can-do spirit and its consistent strategic and creative supremacy. Triad swept the boards at the Chillies in all of its first three years, displaying to the industry and the country the ability of a 15 year old Sri Lankan agency to continue to lead the advertising industry and win, and win, and win, and win. Here the Triad team after they received the Grand Prix award.

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