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By Cheranka Mendis The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) is offering 2717.243 acres of land and 415.7 acres of water body in six selected areas for eco-friendly beach, wildlife and waterfront developments. Located in Kalpitiya, Kuchc-haveli, Bentota, Pasikudah, Dedduwa and Yala, all land offered will be given on a long-term 99-year lease upon payment ...
- Divyaa Lagoon Resort first luxury boutique hotel to open in Kalpitiya (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan government to lease out 10 more islands in Kalpitiya for tourism development (Category: Breaking News)
- Golden opportunity for tourism industry (Category: Breaking News)
By L. Fernando Iggy Pop and The Stooges Probably the funniest rider of all time, Iggy Pop and The Stooges’ rider aims to entertain and humour instead of scare and intimidate. The rider, which is written in a rambling conversational tone with a few internal monologues thrown in for good measure, is quite frankly a ...
- The 'Finger fuse is lit (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Hannah and her sisters (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Film Review (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Charlotte to rock Clipsal 500 (Category: South Australia)
By Kusal Perera “Sometimes, all you have is nonsense to deal with and your anger, with which to do so”. - Anonymous “Happy New Year” said everyone to everyone else, after the year had faded off with bursting fire crackers last night. If all wishes made in good faith for a better New Year in ...
- Sri Lankan elections: A new dimension (Category: Business)
- Three parties de-registered (Category: Breaking News)
- Until The ‘South’ Learns What Democratic Rule Is… (Category: Breaking News)
- REGISTRATION OF THREE PARTIES SUSPENDED (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: It is a universal truth in golf that caddies, like Victorian children, should be seen and not heard. Nobody, it seems, ever told Steve Williams. Williams succeeded only in humiliating himself when making the now notorious racist comment about Woods at a caddies awards dinner in Shanghai two weeks ago. But if Williams was ...
- Tiger Woods hurt by caddie’s slur (Category: Business)
- Woods to face Scott and former caddy Williams in Presidents Cup (Category: Business)
- Woods to make 2012 PGA Tour debut at Pebble Beach (Category: Business)
- Tiger Woods hoping for fast start to 2012 (Category: Business)
by Anthony Reinhart Tories trying to win support from South Asians in Ontario have opened the door to remnants of a Tamil Tiger front group the federal Conservatives themselves banned in 2008. The unlikely association, forged behind a curtain of...
- Conservative Party gets entangled in post May 2009 Tamil diaspora politics in Ontario (Category: Breaking News)
- Harper brushes off questions over Tamil candidate Paranchothy who praised terrorist group LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan origin candidate claims he had no sympathy for terrorists (Category: Breaking News)
- Canada: More furore over personalised stamps bearing Tamil Tiger symbols (Category: Breaking News)
NOT that our little world of sport was at peace with itself last week and so free of issues that might warrant critical scrutiny. If there was such bliss for seven straight days, then, it must’ve been in some other land; over here (where, as the popular joke says, God deems it unnecessary to station ...
- The Ring Is A Women’s World (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka Dual Next Week (Category: Breaking News)
- Anusha Hits Road To London (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan boxer Nilmini Jayasinghe targets 2012 Olympics (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Today there was total confusion in Sri Rajapaksistan (formerly Sri Lanka) when thousands and thousands of people changed their name to “Rajapaksa” to get into Parliament or even get a job… Hospital authorities report that all new...
- Sri Lanka debates on constitutional reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka parliament approves constitutional reforms with two-third majority (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP, JVP scared to face another Presidential Poll - CP Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- The 18th Amendment and the reawakening of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
By Anushka Gunawardena President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a meeting with editors and publishers last Monday, September 7th at Temple Trees, produced a copy of an affidavit claiming to be from the Samurdhi officer where he had said he had willingly asked to be tied to a tree, based on Silva having threatened to do so if ...
- Mervyn testifies (Category: Breaking News)
- Silva’s Disciplinary Inquiry Continues (Category: Breaking News)
- Committee concludes probe on Mervin, final report next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Mervin not guilty, decides committee (Category: Breaking News)
by Frederica Jansz Since the bloody 30 year war ended in a shoot-out in a remote mangrove in the North, in Colombo we have all been enjoying a semblance of peace. Of course there are yet no strong institutions which would boost Sri Lanka’s democracy. Good discipline is sadly lacking at all levels for peace ...
- Investment opportunities in Sri Lanka expanded, President informs Japanese delegation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala symbols, war, peace and ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL from a nation of war to amongst the most peaceful’ (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC was for reconciliation, not to create divisions – President Rajapaksa (Category: Business)
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