03/18/2010
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LankaWeb
Sri Lanka has received another nod as a top travel destination. National Geographic has listed Sri Lanka 2nd in its “25 Best New Trips for 2010.”
01/21/2010
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Daily Mirror
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he would not let the ugly head of terrorism in the North or South to rise again as long as he remains the leader of this country because all communities in Sri Lanka have suffered enough from both Sinhala and Tamil extremism.
(N.B. See references to New York Times.)
01/21/2010
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PR Newswire, Qorvis Communications
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just days after The New York Times chose Sri Lanka as the world's No. 1 place to go in 2010, a leading lifestyle web resource, Daily Candy, weighed in with a similarly enthusiastic travel recommendation, praising Sri Lanka as "the best place" that the Daily Candy writers had ever been. Its rave review reinforces the cultural and national rebirth currently underway in the country since the defeat of terrorism in 2009.
10/23/2009
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The New York Times
International pressure is mounting on Sri Lanka’s government to investigate atrocities that may have been committed during the final stages of its war with the Tamil Tiger insurgency as two new reports from the European Union and the State Department detailing alleged human rights abuses were released this week.