10/02/2011
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Sunday Times
Shanty dwellers become VIPs - very important pollsters
Both sides express confidence, but outcome crucial for UNP
By Our Political Editor
09/13/2011
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Sunday Times
The pro-government EPDP members today held a protest in Jaffna against the US ahead of the visit of US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake to Jaffna.
09/11/2011
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Sunday Times
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake will arrive here tomorrow on a five day visit.
09/11/2011
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Sunday Times
By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene
On the A-9 road from Kandy to Jaffna, bullet scarred palmyrah palms that once lined long stretches where intense fighting between government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had taken place, are no longer to be seen. Many of these dead or dying trees have been chopped down, accentuating an unforgettably arid landscape that has seen enough death and destruction for decades to come.
09/04/2011
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Sunday Times
EDITORIAL: It began in the rural villages, but now it is the 'talk of the town'. Even foreign television channels felt it worthy of reporting -- the 'Grease Yaka' or Grease Demon phenomenon gripping the attention of many throughout the country. Dismissed earlier as one of those weird rumours in a country now bored without war-related news, the incidents that followed, however, took a frightening and even deadly twist.
08/22/2011
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Sunday Times
Ben Bavinck who passed away at the ripe old age of 97 was a dedicated and tireless worker for humanity. He came to Ceylon as a missionary from Holland and was associated with the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India from 1954. He was able to learn the the Tamil language and able to mix with the ordinary people following the traditions set by the early missionaries.
08/14/2011
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Sunday Times
Alongside a picturesque stretch of coastline between Akkaraipattu and Pottuvil in Sri Lanka’s East Coast, a tire burning brightly in the centre of the road is etched starkly against crisp morning light. Given Sri Lanka’s history, when bodies burning on top of tires were once a common sight across the country, this was an unsettling reminder that the past is inclined, more often than not, to repeat itself.
08/07/2011
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Sunday Times
India also increases pressure, position of Russia and China uncertain
Govt.'s talks with TNA break down; national and international crises worsen
07/31/2011
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Sunday Times
The United States has delivered a demarche to Sri Lanka that it wants the final report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) discussed at the 19th sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in March next year.
05/28/2011
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Sunday Times
A Jaffna-based journalist attached with the local newspaper Udayan was assaulted by a group of thugs while on his way to work earlier this morning, his newspaper said.