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Ties with Lanka hold out promise

The local businesscommunity still isn't at ease with massive Indian investments. Indian industry is a major investor in Sri Lanka. Eleven years after the Free Trade Agreement between the two countries came into force, ...

Queen, Mahinda dominate media coverge CHOGM 2011

October 27, 2011, 10:00 pmby Shamindra Ferdinando in Perth President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the Commonwealth Business Forum yesterday. Sri Lanka hadn’t received so much media coverage, at any previous Commonwealth ...

Notable foreign policy triumph

Two heavyweights in global affairs, Australia and India, have clearly and emphatically confirmed that the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in Sri Lanka in 2013, as already decided, and t ...

Asia key to economic stability: MR

‘The biggest concern among economic players today is that clear economic decision-making has been too little and too late’ – President Rajapaksa Such situations, if allowed to escalate unchecked, could give rise to more ...

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