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සිරසේ දි ඉරාජ් බයිට් උන හැට

2010-10-27T20:17:00.002+05:30

දුරකතනයෙන් සම්බන්ධ වූ පුද්ගලයෙක්- "අනේ පව් නොකර, පවක් කරගන් නැතුව ඒ ජාතීන්ට තේරෙන බාසාවකින් ඒක ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන්ම කියන්න.....
දුරකතනයෙන් සම්බන්ධ වූ කාන්තාවක්
"පස්සේ කියපු එකටනම් දුකයි. ආතල් එකක් ගන්න, ඒකට අපේ මිනිස්සුන්ගේ රසවින්දනය යොදාගන්න එපා. ආතල් එකක් ගන්න ඔය ඒකට වෙන මොකක්හරි කරන්න. "
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The U.S. May Have To Sell Some Assets To Get Out Of Its Debt Mess

2010-10-20T19:03:00.000+05:30

(BusinessInsider) Is the United States already insolvent? Yes, according to a recent Bloomberg column by Boston University economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff. After comparing the government’s obligations with its expected future revenues, he concludes: “Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt.” | Read more..

Queen Cancels Christmas As Austerity Takes Over England

2010-10-14T18:37:00.000+05:30

(BusinessInsider) The Queen has canceled the annual Christmas party in gesture of solidarity with her country, reports The Sun. There's also the possibility that the Queen is running out of money. Last month she applied for welfare money to pay palace heating bills. | Read more..

HAPPENING NOW - 12 Ominous Signs of Tsunami of World Financial Markets

2010-10-07T21:05:00.000+05:30

(BusinessInsider.com) Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now? Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate. Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.| Read more..

41 million Americans are now on food stamps

2010-10-06T21:02:00.002+05:30

(Business Insider)The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening. That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term. | Read more..

Reality of Fonseka saga

2010-10-05T20:45:00.000+05:30

(The Island) Given the enormity of what he has done and said he was going to do, he is lucky to be treated so leniently. I can hardly blame them for taking Fonseka seriously, when I myself would have fled the country at the slightest sign of Fonseka becoming president!| Read more..

Inhumanity of capitalism

2010-10-02T07:35:00.000+05:30

(NY Times) From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. | Read more..

ODEL රෙදි සොරාගත් ‘බොඳ මීදුම්’ නිළිය ඇප මත නිදහස්

2010-09-30T18:11:00.000+05:30

(LankaCnews) කොළඹ ටවුන් හෝල්හි පිහිටි ඔඩෙල් නිමි ඇඳුම් හලකින් රුපියල් 12000ක් වටිනා ඇඳුම් සොරා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් ටෙලිනාට්‍ය රංගන ශිල්පිනිය රුපියල් 50000ක ශරීර ඇප මත මුදාහරින ලෙස කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් රශ්මි සිංගප්පුලි මහතා නියම කර තිබේ. ඔඩෙල් සාප්පුවෙන් ඇඳුම් ඇය සොරාගෙන යන්නට තැත් කර තිබෙන්නේ සිරුරේ සගවාගෙනය. | Read more..

CEB records Rs205m profit after 12 years

2010-09-06T20:38:00.000+05:30

(SAMN) he Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) earned a profit of Rs 205 million in June for the first time after 12 years, Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday. | Read more..

NGOs to be removed

2010-08-22T20:43:00.000+05:30

(DailyMirror) The government is prepared to order NGO’s who are linked with funding the LTTE, to shut down and have their officials deported, Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratna told Daily Mirror online. Prime Minister Jayaratna said that the government has identified NGOs who have provided finance, fire arms and advice to the LTTE and have taken measures to cancel their licenses. | Read more..

Sri Lanka ranked 66 th among top 100 countries

2010-08-19T19:42:00.001+05:30

(NewsWeek) Sri Lanka has earned the 66th slot in a Newsweek magazine survey to pick the best country in the world to offer a healthy and prosperous life to its citizens. | Read more..

Kavan loses assets

2010-08-06T18:13:00.000+05:30

(DailyMirror) The Supreme Court today directed the confiscation of assets of Golden Key Credit Card Ltd CEO Kavan Perera for the purpose of transferring the money to a special fund for depositors. | Read more..

Sakvithi Ranasinghe arrested

2010-08-06T18:06:00.000+05:30

(Adaderana) The most wanted fraudster Sakvithi Ranasinghe and his wife have been arrested while being in disguise at the Nawagamuwa area by the Mirihana Police, says Police Spokesman Prishantha Jayakody. | Read more..

Departing U.N. official calls Ban's leadership 'deplorable' in 50-page memo

2010-07-21T19:05:00.000+05:30

(WashingtonPost) The outgoing chief of a U.N. office charged with combating corruption at the United Nations has issued a stinging rebuke of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, accusing him of undermining her efforts and leading the global institution into an era of decline, according to a confidential end-of-assignment report. | Read more..

China and Sri Lanka - the Colombo consensus

2010-07-17T22:23:00.000+05:30

(Economist) HITCHING up his clean white sarong, Basil Rajapaksa mounts a gleaming new motorcycle and has a breezy spin outside the office of his brother Mahinda, Sri Lanka’s president. As he brakes to a standstill by Yang Xiuping, China’s ambassador, both are wreathed in smiles.| Read more..

After Lanka, UN under fire in Nepal

2010-07-10T15:30:00.000+05:30

(Hindustan Times) After Sri Lanka, where a minister is leading protests against alleged UN interference, the world body is now under fire in Nepal, where the prime minister has accused it of trying to derail the Himalayan republic's fragile peace process. An unusually strong outburst came from Nepal's caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who objected to an unsolicited plan drawn up by the UN political unit in Nepal. | Read more..

Maldives praises Rajapaksa's role in ending pol stand-off

2010-07-09T20:47:00.000+05:30

(Hindustan Times) Maldives today praised the role of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for helping end a stand-off between the government and the opposition-led parliament that had forced the Cabinet to resign en masse on June 29. The ministers were reappointed as Rajapaksa undertook a one-day goodwill visit to Maldives on July 7 to help mediate in the political crisis. | Read more..

Sri Lanka stands up for its sovereignty

2010-07-04T19:13:00.000+05:30

(Gulf News) Bravo, Sri Lanka. Maintain your sovereignty and carry out independent and impartial probes into such allegations yourselves. For the thousands of refugees including Tamils who were displaced from their homes, it is imperative that they understand that they belong to the island state of Sri Lanka and not remain burdened as refugees withering in some squalid camps and facing an uncertain future. | Read more..

LP gas priced down from midnight

2010-06-30T18:14:00.000+05:30

(Ada Derana) The price of a 12.5 kg cylinder of Shell gas has been reduced by Rs. 117 and a cylinder of 2.3 by Rs. 21 with effect from midnight today (June 30), says the Consumers Affairs Minister.The new price of a 12.5 kg LP Shell gas cylinder will be Rs. 1,652.00 and a 2.3 kg cylinder Rs. 304.00.Laugfs LP gas price too has been reduced by Rs. 85 per 12.5 kg cylinder and the new price will be Rs. 1,659,00. | Read more..

Former Aussie PM's bid to lead world cricket fails

2010-06-30T17:29:00.001+05:30

(AFP) – Former Australian prime minister John Howard's bid to lead world cricket has been thrown out, the International Cricket Council said Wednesday, after a revolt by Asian and African nations. "Howard's only supporters were the three white nations: Australia, New Zealand and England, reinforcing the power of the Afro-Asia bloc in world cricket," Conn said.| Read more..

Sri Lanka records strong post-war growth

2010-06-25T17:33:00.000+05:30

(AFP) Sri Lanka's economy expanded 7.1 percent during the first quarter of this year, the statistics office said Friday, as the island picks itself up after a long civil war. The growth for the January-March period, up from 1.6 percent at the same point last year, was boosted by expansion in farm produce and services. | Read more..

Investigation lies with the government – Russia slams UN panel

2010-06-25T12:18:00.001+05:30

(Ada Derana) Russia has criticized the appointment of a UN Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka questioning why the opinion of the Security Council or the General Assembly was not sought in the matter. Investigating the events that occurred in the past in Sri Lanka lies with its Government, Russia said in a statement. Read full Statement...

VIDEO: UN panel will not be allowed into Sri Lanka

2010-06-24T16:30:00.000+05:30

(Ada Derana) Sri Lanka will not allow the UN expert panel to come to Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris said today. To come to Sri Lanka they will need visas however Sri Lanka sees no reason why they should come, he added. | Read more..

Sri Lanka furious as UN's Ban names war crimes panel

2010-06-24T12:21:00.000+05:30

(AFP) Sri Lanka is "deeply unhappy" at a move by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to name a panel to look into alleged war crimes committed during the final months of the island's civil war, an official said Monday."The government is deeply unhappy with the appointment of this panel and made it very clear to the secretary-general himself and other UN representatives that this is unwarranted and uncalled for," the official said.| Read more..

Lanka has backup for GSP

2010-06-24T12:16:00.000+05:30

(DM) Sri Lanka says it has a backup mechanism in place in the event the European Union (EU) withdraws the GSP plus trade benefits for the country over its failure to adhere to the conditions set by the 27 member block.He noted that no citizen of Sri Lanka can agree to the conditions of the EU as it violates the integrity and sovereignty of the country. | Read more..