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Sat Jun 25 14:03:38 EDT 2022 - colombotelegraph.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.029515155

[…]The post Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.

Thu Jun 09 01:20:33 EDT 2022 - colombogazette.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.07378788

People in Thailand can now grow cannabis plants at home and sell the crop after the nation removed marijuana from its banned narcotics list. The nation is the first to advance such a move in South-East Asia, a region known for its stringent drug laws. But recreational use is still banned, even though advocates say […]

Sat May 28 01:50:01 EDT 2022 - colombogazette.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.07378788

After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions. It marks the most significant moment so far in the country’s slow relaxation of its Covid-19 entry restrictions. But some restrictions will remain, including a requirement to visit the country as part of a tour […]

Sat May 07 07:50:47 EDT 2022 - colombotelegraph.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.044272732

[…] The post What’s Next, After The Rajapaksa Clan & #GotaGoGama Are Both Gone? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.

Sun Feb 13 13:03:40 EST 2022 - colombotelegraph.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.051651523

[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.

Sun Feb 13 09:59:22 EST 2022 - colombotelegraph.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.051651523

[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.

Sat Mar 13 08:41:40 EST 2021 - colombotelegraph.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.051651523

[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.

Sat Mar 13 07:40:37 EST 2021 - colombotelegraph.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.051651523

[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.

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Lovely cricket!

Sun Sep 16 17:16:45 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.051651523

Sri Lanka proud hosts of popular and shorter form of most entertaining tournament played in Asia for the first time; 20-teams, 20-day cricket fiesta ICC World T20 kicks off tomorrow Mega boost for tourism as 500 players and officials alone to take up 9,000 room-nights; hundreds of overseas fans, global sponsor officials and media to ...

Thu Sep 06 15:46:02 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11806062

Owned and operated by Sri Lanka’s largest blue chip conglomerate, John Keells Holdings PLC and positioned as a star value addition at John Keells Hotels Group, ‘Nature Trails’, the dedicated Wildlife and Adventure Tourism division of Chaaya and Cinnamon Resorts, bagged the award for the ‘Best Nature and Wildlife Service Provider’ at the Sri Lanka ...

Tue Aug 07 08:53:29 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.044272732

Playing off India against China and vice versa‘The Great Game’ was the name given to a diplomatic and military tussle between the British and Russian empires during the time of the British Raj in India for influence over what constitutes today’s central Asian states. Commonly known as the ‘Stan states,’ they were located along the ...

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Wimbledon 2012 pick-ups for Lanka

Mon Jul 16 17:08:28 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.05903031

Wimbledon is special to me not because I played the tennis circuit during my schooling days but for the insights that I get into life and business in general. The 2012 edition in particular was unique, given that a Brit was in the finals of the men’s singles game, that was happening after 74 years. ...

Sun Jun 17 15:37:55 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.2891883

The government of the Maldives is said to be looking for funding from the private sector for an advertising campaign to boost its tourism industry following turmoil earlier this year when its elected president was forced from office in what he later claimed was a coup. A report in Minivan News said the government had ...

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JKH promote sustainable whale watching

Sun Apr 15 16:24:36 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11806062

A gallery of images depicting the story of how the Nature Trails team headed by Chitral Jayathilake and Head Naturalist Nilantha Kodithuwakku, launched whale watching in the Eastern coast; was displayed at Chaaya Blu Trincomalee recently. Once approval was obtained by relevant authorities, the Nature Trails team headed out from Chaaya Blu Trincomalee in their ...

Mon Apr 02 15:48:10 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.05903031

Let’s accept it, Sri Lanka made a statement to the world that we are open for business with Expo 2012, even though it had its limitations like the faulty air conditioner at the launch that grabbed media attention. Whilst some can say that the shine was taken off the event due to the very uncomfortable ...

Tue Jan 03 02:24:23 EST 2012 - lankastandard.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.03689394

Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...

Mon Jan 02 15:29:54 EST 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.53258616

BBC: Hoteliers in a popular tourist destination in Sri Lanka have accused a local politician of blackmailing them and demanding ransom from hotels at the peak of a tourism season. The Hikkaduwa Hoteliers Association (HHA) told BBC Sandeshaya that the town’s Mayor, Winnie Kariyawasam

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Rajapaksa-Wamsa: History As Their Story

Sun Jan 01 00:12:20 EST 2012 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.05903031

“…by clever and persevering use of propaganda, even heaven can be represented as hell to the people, and conversely the most wretched life as paradise”. Hitler (Mein Kampf) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Impunity is illimitable. If the law was allowed to take its normal course after the Kolonnawa mini-war, the Christmas Eve murder of a ...

Mon Dec 26 15:12:36 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.15336524

A shocked leisure industry yesterday decried the deadly attack on tourists in Tangalle over the weekend as the biggest setback for the sector which was rebounding following the end of the war. They urged the Government and law enforcement authorities to ensure harshest punishment against those responsible whilst calling for adequate measures to ensure safety ...

Mon Nov 14 15:54:11 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.044272732

Offering epic safari adventures, Chaaya Wild transcends expectations and enthrals nature enthusiastsBy Marianne David If there’s one message that Yala reinforces, it’s the fact Sri Lanka is so abundantly blessed – a miracle in many ways. Despite its rising position as a hotspot for leopards being temporarily halted in its tracks during the latter stages ...

Mon Nov 14 15:54:11 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.088545464

In an exclusive interview with the Daily FT, Keells Hotel Management Services Head of Eco Tourism and Special Projects Chitral Jayatilake said that over the years, Yala has progressed from being a great place to go on safari to a great place to see leopards. According to Jayatilake, the transition took place over the last ...

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Lankan tour guide is world's best

Sat Oct 15 11:31:06 EDT 2011 - srilankamirror.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.16696292

Noel Bruno Dawsan, a Sri Lankan, has been recognized as the world's best tour guide by the British travel magazine Wanderlust. The winner says he is delighted and will help disadvantaged people into further education with his bursary. A Tamil of Indian origin, he comes from a family of impoverished tea pickers in a remote Sri Lankan town. Mr. Dawsan was hailed by the judges as a ...

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Regimenting Society

Sat May 14 15:14:08 EDT 2011 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.05903031

By Tisaranee Gunasekara Nazism offered….a society that had been scarred by deep divisions…a sense of lofty purpose, almost a national mission….” — Michael Burleigh (The Third Reich – A New History) Barring a last-minute judicial-intervention, the Rajapaksa plan to make ‘leadership training’ by army officers mandatory for all university-entrants will become a reality, this month. ...

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Space tourism

Thu Mar 31 05:53:53 EDT 2011 - bbc.co.uk - Category : Technology - Relavancy : 0.90382874

BBC gets first look inside Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceship

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is an exceedingly brutal dictator, however, his people are not yet c...

Sat Feb 05 20:43:03 EST 2011 - transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.088545464

The Galle Literary festival is a haven of civilised values in a country that is no stranger to strife by Robert McCrum Associate editor, The Observer, UK [Click for more pictures] Ever since the Hay festival set up shop overseas...

Wed Jun 16 18:03:19 EDT 2010 - transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.03689394

June 16, 2010: 11.00 am Siobhain McDonagh: (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab): I am grateful for the chance to highlight again the appalling treatment of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government....

Sat Jun 12 07:40:23 EDT 2010 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.07378788

The headline and two articles of four in the front page of The Sunday Leader of last week was on money. The lead article screamed “UNP Leader Got Rs. 48 mn From One ‘Donor’” . The other two titles were: “One Billion Rupees For IIFA”; “Sumal Wants Rs. 19 bn For Waters Edge”. With pulse racing ...

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