05/02/2010
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The Sunday Times
At the recent monthly meeting of the Sunday Times Business Club (STBC) at the Taj Samudra, Colombo, the speaker Bahrain-based Hilmy Cader, Chief Executive MTI Consulting, was asked to list one or two key issues that need to be put right if Sri Lanka is to take off in the post-war era. His response: EDUCATION.
05/02/2010
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The Sunday Times
Early this week, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told South Asian leaders that they should be bold enough to introspect. "We must take measures to improve the existing mechanisms through review, rationalisation and reinvigoration," he told the summit meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) in the mountain kingdom of Bhutan.
01/24/2010
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The Sunday Times
The campaigning schedule of the opposition's "common candidate", retired General Sarath Fonseka has been a punishing one.
Since nominations last month, between mounting stages to address rallies in various parts of the country and chairing conferences, he has found little time. Lunch has often been a packet of sandwiches eaten whilst being driven from one rally to another. For the group of commandos protecting him, it is a nightmare. As they go from rally to rally, his men keep changing routes and vehicles to counter any possible threats to Gen. (retd.) Fonseka's life. They also carry his mobile phones and hand them in so he could be in touch with opposition leaders and aides helping in the campaign.
Last Friday, at his polls office at Rajakeeya Mawatha, he gave the Sunday Times an interview. Here is the Q &A.