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DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Villagers Help Themselves To A Road //REPEATING//
Young women and men, used bare hands and newly-acquired skills to galvanise a village in southern Sri Lanka to turn a narrow hilly track into a motorable road.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Villagers Help Themselves To A Road //REPEATING//
Young women and men, used bare hands and newly-acquired skills to galvanise a village in southern Sri Lanka to turn a narrow hilly track into a motorable road.DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Villagers Help Themselves To A Road
Young women and men, used bare hands and newly-acquired skills to galvanise a village in southern Sri Lanka to turn a narrow hilly track into a motorable road.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Justice Eludes Victims Of Gov’t Crackdown
The waters of the beautiful Gin Ganga river, as it glides past her home in this southern Sri Lankan village, never lets 63-year-old M.P. Somi forget the terror of 1989.TRADE-SRI LANKA: Small Growers Pay For Global Tea Price Crash
These days, Seelawathi Liyanage and her middle-aged husband mostly sit around drinking tea and discussing the hard times ahead with other neighbours instead of tending tea bushes in Sri Lanka's southern region.CULTURE-SRI LANKA: Liberalisation Set To Sweep Film Industry
Sri Lanka's film industry, in the doldrums since the late 1970s, is preparing for radical changes after the government said it was abandoning control over distribution.ENVIRONMENT: Grim Water Forecast Could End Green Revolution Run
Nearly 1.4 billion people or a quarter of the world's population lives in regions that would face severe water shortages in the first quarter of the new millennium, an international research study shows.ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Too Many Holidays Queer Big Growth Bid
Hopes of Sri Lanka becoming an industrialised nation in the new millennium could turn out to be a dream as growing losses in productivity and too many holidays continue to plague this country.POLITICS-SRI LANKA: Tamils Losing Faith in Kumaratunga
Sri Lanka's sizeable Tamil minority community is fast losing faith in President Chandrika Kumaratunga who has stumbled after bold steps to end the 16-year-old ethnic violence in the Indian Ocean island nation./ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT/SPORT-SRI LANKA: Cricket World Cup to Bridge Ethnic Divide Again
If there is one thing that has united Sri Lankans in the midst of a bloody ethnic war, it is the fortunes of the national cricket team.-SRI LANKA: Wate Rights Tussle Can Only Get Worse
Some years back, angry rice farmers forced open the sluice gates of a large reservoir in Sri Lanka directed water to their fields when irrigation officials said the water was only for domestic consumers.POLITICS-UNITED NATIONS: Sri Lanka Bids For Top UNESCO Job
Sri Lanka is pitching hard for the top job at the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that is being contested by six candidates from round the world, five of whom are Asian.ENVIRONMENT-SRI LANKA: Pollutants Choke Island’s Biggest Lagoon
Thousands of kilos of fish are unloaded daily at the jetty on Sri Lanka's biggest lagoon and carted away to local fish markets, hotels or for export.WEEKLY SELECTION-SRI LANKA: Parents of Missing Soldiers Yearn To Know
When Janaka Thenuwara, a young Sri Lankan navy officer was freed by his Tamil rebel captors, after a year in custody, he vowed to set up an organisation to campaign for the release of all prisoners of war and an end to the civil war.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Parents Of Missing Soldiers Yearn To Know
When Janaka Thenuwara, a young Sri Lankan navy officer was freed by his Tamil rebel captors, after a year in custody, he vowed to set up an organisation to campaign for the release of all prisoners of war and an end to the civil war.POLITICS-SRI LANKA: Local Poll Win A Big Victory For President
Sri Lanka's ruling party Wednesday swept past the opposition in regional council elections, seen as a crucial test for President Chandrika Kumaratunga's government, winning in all the five regions.MEDIA-SRI LANKA: Readers Relish The Daily Dose Of Violence
Sri Lanka's bloody ethnic conflict running into its 17th year in 1999 tops the list of stories followed avidly by newspaper readers, according to a new survey that puts local news and crime stories in dailies well behind war stories.ENVIRONMENT-SRI LANKA: GEF Conservation Plan Leaks Ancient Remedies
A project to safeguard Sri Lanka's wealth of medicinal plants, jointly funded by the World Bank and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), threatens the well-kept secret of traditional remedies, warn environmentalists here.RIGHTS-SOUTH ASIA: Women’s Movement Makes Tremendous Gains
The women's movement has attracted a large following in South Asia, barring Sri Lanka where women are more literate and believed they have fewer problems, according to the winner of a prestigious U.N human rights award in 1998.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Death Penalty Returns On Public Demand
The Sri Lankan government has bowed to public demands to restore capital punishment to curb an alarming rise in serious crime, including rape, but rights campaigners and religious groups are far from pleased.RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Death Penalty Returns On Public Demand
The Sri Lankan government has bowed to public demands to restore capital punishment to curb an alarming rise in serious crime, including rape, but rights campaigners and religious groups are far from pleased.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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