2010 June | The Sunday Leader

MAITHREE

An unprecedented number of people turned out on Poson Poya, Friday 25th at a centre in Kohuwela to donate blood for the country’s war wounded. – Photo by Lalith Perera

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The Beauty Of Our Airport And The Stinking Toilets

It is very sad indeed to note that we Sri Lankans always produce a beautiful edifice and yet after a short while, completely abandon its proper maintenance. Millions of rupees have been ploughed into the re-development of our international airport. Yet on a recent arrival, I found the toilets a stinking mess without even a [...]

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Foreigners Continue To Exit Bourse

With a “low” deposit rate regime making it unattractive for locals to invest their excess monies’ in term deposits, their focus in recent times has been the bourse to be their investment vehicle. The market, in last week’s short working week due to Friday’s Poson Poya holiday returned an average daily turnover of Rs. 2.9 [...]

12:31 am | Posted in Business | Read More »

Hemas Southern Hospital Introduces Loyalty Card

Chairman of Hemas Hospital (Pvt) Ltd, Murtaza Esufally giving away the first Lengathu Loyalty card Hemas Southern Hospitals is introducing a Loyalty Card in keeping with their corporate policy of lending a hand to their regular customers. Named ‘Lengathu’, the card was recently launched at the Hemas Southern Hospital in Galle. It will be later [...]

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Devananda Refuses To Be Drawn Into Controversy

Alleged shooting of L.T.T.E. surrendees Douglas Devananda The past is the past we have to move on, a Minister belonging to the Tamil minority community told this reporter when questioned about alleged war crimes committed by the Government in the final days of the war against the L.T.T.E. Traditional Industries and Small Enterprises Development Minister [...]

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Applauding Pakistan’s Disabled Cricketers

By Ranee Mohamed He is the father of cricketer Roshan Mahanama. But it is not about his son’s cricketing successes that he is talking about. On a visit to Pakistan recently Dr. Upali Mahanama had viewed a different kind of cricket match – a team and a playing of the game that remains deeply rooted [...]

12:30 am | Posted in Life | Read More »

Preventive Solutions For Kidnapping Of Children

The kidnapping of little children in this country appears to be a major problem. If children are kidnapped, it is the fault of the parents. Parents should never allow their children to be left alone at any time. Little children are kidnapped, smuggled out of the country and sold at high prices either for adoption [...]

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Nurturing The Source Of Peace And Harmony

By Udara Soysa Thampiah Siripathy heads a legal firm in Toronto, Canada and is heavily involved in the promotion of Carnatic music and classical Indian dancing especially Bharata Natyam, in Canada. He is also an expert in Hindu culture and a specialist in singing thevarams, the holy lyrics composed by Saiva saints like Thirugnansambanthar and [...]

12:30 am | Posted in Arts | Read More »

Open The Door To India

Your issue of last week carried much invective against the CEPA agreement particularly by Mr. Tilvin Silva and one Mr. R. Perera. Much of what each says is without foundation, since the agreement is not yet made public, particularly the bogey of Indian labour. Personally, I do not see anything wrong in employing Indians in [...]

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Fighting Dengue

The dengue mosquito Aedes Aegypti black in colour, with banded legs and lyre shape white bands on its thorax, is the vector of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever in Asia. Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by a group of virus that belongs to the genus flavivirus. Aedes aegypti prefers to breed indoors, [...]

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