03/01/2011
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Thomas.gov
S.RES.84 -- Expressing support for internal rebuilding, resettlement, and reconciliation within Sri Lanka that are necessary to ensure a lasting peace. (Agreed to Senate - ATS)
09/14/2010
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BBC
A Sri Lankan panel investigating the end of the country's civil war has been told the authorities had been wrong to exclude media from the conflict zone.
08/19/2010
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The Economist
WEARING a crisp blue shirt, Kumaraswamy Nageswaran gestures dejectedly to a towering fence that keeps him from his village and his three acres of farmland on the Trincomalee coast. Five years ago, as Tamil Tiger rebels fought desperately with the Sri Lankan army, thousands of families fled Sampur and adjoining villages. They returned in the six months to January this year, only to find themselves victims of post-war development plans.
08/17/2010
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The Hindu
Rajapaksa appears more focussed on economic development, including that of the Tamil-dominated North
08/15/2010
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Sunday Times
A fully fledged, 100-bed hospital of international standard named Northern Central Hospital is being launched in northern Jaffna as a Board of Investment (BOI) approved project, According to Dr. Keerthi Sri Edirisinghe, the consultant engaged in designing of the new venture, this will provide a boost to the medical sector in the region which is slow in moving into the north compared to other service sectors like banks, insuranceand finance companies.
07/27/2010
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GoSL
President Mahinda Rajapaksa says Sri Lankan scientists had not been engaged in scientific researches during the past period since their knowledge was not properly used in scientific activities.