Sri Lanka boom times

Two years ago, the LTTE were described by the FBI as ‘the most dangerous and deadly terrorist organization in the world.’

Over the past 30 years, Tigers have killed over 100,000 people - the vast majority of them civilians. The list of heinous acts is long and multifaceted. Children were kidnapped and used as soldiers.

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Great gentleman Gamini Dissanayake

Sixteenth death anniversary tomorrow:

Gamini was behind the accelerated Mahaweli development program. It was because of this project that the country was able to achieve self-sufficiency in rice for the first time in its post-colonial history,

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PARALLEL Perspectives

Currency wars show fading economic clout of West

Currency wars have heated up with charges that Chinese renminbi (yuan) is under-valued. The Chinese countered that banking policies and lowered interest rates in the West caused the trade imbalance.

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