SL’s lead role in Sambuddhatva Jayanthi commemoration

In Sri Lanka, a comprehensive programme was drawn up by a special committee appointed by the government to commemorate the Sambuddhatva Jayanthi. The focus of the action plan formulated by the committee was to strengthen the practical performance of the Sambuddha Sasana; to ensure thereby the preservation of the Sasana in the future, to bring about a moral regeneration of the Sri Lankan Buddhist society; and to protect the Sinhala Buddhist cultural identity,

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Addressing inequality

The latest Asia-Pacific Labour Market Update of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has mixed signals for Sri Lanka. On the one hand, of the countries in the region, Sri Lanka's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the second half of 2011 was 8.3 percent (second only to China's) and unemployment had come down to 4.2 percent (about the median for the region).

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Peri Sundaram:

Patriot, freedom fighter and workers’ champion

Peri Sundaram was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth nor did he belong to the feudal Sri Lankan clan which enjoyed the privileges of wealth and the patronage of the colonial administration. He could lay no claim to a patrician upbringing nor did his parents belong to the charmed circle of hand picked and well rewarded members of the indigenous establishment that sustained the British Raj.

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