Saturday, 27th September 2014 Rasika Somarathna The government has initiated a project to build 50,000 housing units for plantation sector workers as per a concept mooted by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The houses wil ...
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Strengthening ties between Estonia and Sri Lanka
Sunday, 28th September 2014 LENS When you ask people in Estonia about Sri Lanka, what would be the first thing they say? Ceylon tea, nice sunshine and sandy beaches, cinnamon, most probably. When you ask people in Sr ...
Do NGOs really help the country in peace-building and reconciliation?
Sunday, 28th September 2014 LENS By J. Yogaraj Are conspirators working under HR issue cover? A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-prof ...
President holds bilateral discussions at UN Headquarters
Thursday, 25th September 2014 President Mahinda Rajapaksa held several bilateral discussions on Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations Headquarters on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Summit 2014. The President met w ...
President extends support to elephant conservation at Clinton Global Initiative meeting
Thursday, 25th September 2014 New York: President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday joined former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 2014 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York. Pr ...
Depoliticise UN system and mechanism to enhance credibility: President Rajapaksa
Friday 26th September 2014 “As Buddha said all human endeavour must be to construct order out of chaos and harmony out of strife” The 69th United Nation General Assembly General debate got underway on Wednesday in New ...
Sri Lanka reaches Chinese MICE outbound market at CIBTM 2014
Friday, 26th September 2014 Sri Lanka Convention Bureau together with SriLankan Airlines and the MICE industry attended the CIBTM MICE Trade Fair in Beijing for the second consecutive year and this time to strengt ...