ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 03
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NEWS
Co-chairs to tighten screws on Lanka
The four Co-chairs meeting in Oslo next week are to consider the next step in the face of Sri Lanka’s refusal to bow to western pressure to halt the war, allow international monitors to oversee human rights obligations and to be cowed by cuts in western aid.
 
Population will decline after 2040
Sri Lanka’s population will decline after 2040, primarily due to a significantly low level of fertility, a think-tank has warned. Research by the Institute of Policy Studies has revealed that Sri Lanka’s population which is around 20 million now will reach 20.1 million by 2011 and could attain its peak of 21.1 million in 2031.
 
Blair offers to mediate
Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has offered to help resolve the Northern conflict in Sri Lanka after he steps down from office later this month.
PLUS
Click on to Lanka’s bloggers
They rant and rave, they wax lyrical, they crack each other up; they spout poetry, abuse and sympathy; they analyse politics, plays and personal problems; they post videos, photographs and racy limericks.
 
Painters in the sky
The beautiful white dagobas of Anuradhapura are wonders of the world, admired by all who see them. However, maintaining the glory of these gigantic structures is no easy task. They need constant care and little known to the public, there is a group of people who risk their lives......
 
An IT legend
This is a day and age when technology and the machine have such a say over the course the world takes that it is easy to forget the power of the human spirit: the difference a single human being can make upon his or her environment. We’ve seen and unfortunately are still witness to, negative examples. How wars can start because of the decisions of individuals, for example.
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Though each step is dangerously explosive, a Sri Lankan deminer is seen defusing or removing landmines at Verugal in the Trincomalee district before civilians are resettled there. He is one of the Sri Lankans trained in demining by experts from Denmark and India. The scheme is being funded by Denmark and Japan. Pic by A.T.M. Gunananda

COLUMNS
 
Political
Tide turning against royal party
5th Column
Official 'sorry' is 'no sorry' personally
The Economic Analysis
Petrol rationing: More corruption, little conservation
Situation Report
Not published with this week issue
Thoughts from London
Justice must be done and it was done
Issue of the week
Not published with this week issue
Focus on Rights
Not published with this week issue
Lobby
Not published with this week issue
Inside the glass house
A forthright UN official and a puppet UN chief
 
INTERNATIONAL

A new film will examine a centuries-old tradition among some underprivileged Indian communities where girls in the family become prostitutes, with their brothers and fathers acting as pimps.

FINANCIAL TIMES
Police weak against abductions, ransoms
The Police, as an arm of the government, are weak in containing abductions and threats-for-ransom while the role of permanent Secretaries must be re-defined by Parliament, an email poll by The Sunday Times FT shows.
Yaddehige sells RPC firms despite vehement denials
The Richard Peiris group sold off Asia Capital Ltd, one of its subsidiaries, despite vehement denials earlier by Group Chairman Dr. Sena Yaddehige saying that ‘neither the company nor its Chairman has any intention of entertaining offers to sell RPC or dispose of any of its business.’
Global warming and Lankan chaos
An interesting email doing the rounds these days refers to the water crisis in the year 2070. It shows a man who has just turned 50 but looks more like 85 years.
SPORTS
Now it's catch TWENTY - 20
Have you seen a well attired couple waltzing across the floor of the hall in a butterfly like rhythm – in cricketing parlance I put it down to Test cricket – it’s traditional, graceful and yet more, very demanding. Then you suddenly switch to samba or the rumba and that can be a bit of a body jarring exercise...
 
Shailendra guides Royal
Come next week this time the fate of the Bradby will be known. Royal made sure that they are intent on winning it back when they turned in a reasonably adequate performance to down S. Thomas’ 22-18 to win the Michael Guneratne Trophy at Longden Place yesterday.
 
The pack is reshuffled
Bangladesh arrives in Sri Lanka not too long after fairing poorly against India in both the ODI’s and Test matches.
MEDI SCENE
Down with a bout of Gout!
The old adage that eating and drinking too much causes gout has now been proved wrong,
 
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Mirror
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Preserving traditional dance
The Tower Hall Foundation, after years of activities to promote and preserve traditional nadagam and nurthi, has taken initiatives to conduct workshops for the youth who are interested in learning about nurthi and nadagam and take part in them as well as preserving them.
Commander Sanka
"My dear Commanders, you have to bear one thing in mind. The age of a leader is immaterial. What really matters is skill, the power and the ability to come to correct decisions. So please do remember that my intentions are pure. They are all for the good of my country. All I want is to unite this country which is divided. Let my step-father's army come chasing me.
The Message of ‘Maithree’ in movies in Colombo
A rare opportunity to see world renowned Buddhist films will be in Sri Lanka when a festival of cinematic creations related to themes of Buddhism begins at the Elphinstone theatre in Colombo this week.
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Financial Times
Share splits may replace bonus issues
   
Are we worried? Oh no!
   
From greatness to crisis
   
Traders appeal to President over escalating prices
   
Employee Performance the Cornucopia way
 
Dialog, Brastel facilitate Japan-Sri Lanka Prepaid Reload
 
Can the media be an impartial assessor?
   
New concept in volunteering for tourism
   
AitkenSpence Resorts first to achieve ISO 22000: 2005 Standard in the Maldives
   
Tourism for the environmentally responsible
   
Garment industry wants more homemade fabric
 
BOI ‘shows off’ Sri Lanka as a location for Korean business
 
Themes from the CCC Economic Summit
 
SriLankan awarded Imperial Mark for excellence
 
Upasena family and Asia’s biggest orthodox tea factory
 
Ads ban on tobacco, liquor hurts DCSL bottomline
 
More comments on STFT email poll on Lankan crisis
 
EoIs for Colombo's new South Harbour
 
Seethawaka Industrial Park AGM
 
DHL gets METTLER TOLEDO cargo scanner
   
Eppawela Rock Phosphate plan takes a new turn


TV Times
   
Coming attractions at MC
   
JBJ creates a complicated quadrangle
   
Ministry of sound live experience
   
Battle of the Bands begin
   


International
   
Prostitution as family trade and custom
   
Sivaji delayed: Fans go berserk
   
Salman Rushdie; From fatwa recluse to knighted socialite
   
India says winning hearts and minds in Kashmir despite setbacks
   
Bangladesh’s third force emerging from the muddle
   
Why's Lebanon burning? Israel should know
   
Mumbai mafia rides high on India's property, film boom
   
News
Ten commandments to restore peace in Sri Lanka
 
No military solution, but no bowing down to terrorism
 
Deduru Oya scheme in the doldrums
 
3 member team to probe into status of LRC land
 
The southwest monsoon sets in
 
All’s well, it did not end in a well
 
Tsunami victims get permanent houses
 
Tantirimale a sacred area on Poson Poya day
 
New security procedures send prices up
   
President considers polls in the east
   
Two die in Kitulgala boating accident
   
Fuel, power hikes on hold for now
   
SL to strike it rich with carbon trading
   
Abductions unchecked: UNP wants parliament to intervene
   
Opposition to supplementary estimates
   
No confidence motion on Keheliya by UNP
   
Odds and Ends
   
Abduction stories: Conspiracy to create fear psychosis says Govt. Muslim leaders
   
So near, yet so far
   
Italy’s highest civilian award to Sri Lankan Ambassador
   
Past Pupils Associations oppose NEC circular on admissions
   

Sports
Antonians too strong for Ananda
 
Sebs back to their glory Cager days
 
CR pushed to the limit
   
Lankans roar into the final
   
To bury the hatchet!
   
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 Aney is it true?with nam
   
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 Mercedes Benz golf tourney a resounding success
   
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 Our players are prepared for the challenge—SLTA President
   
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 Asian giants to meet in a bid to host a better WC in 2011
   
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 Give me a winner I’ll give you a dime

Plus
Letters to the editor
  Let's throw them all out and search anew
  Thank you kind lady
  Bandung: When little Lanka stood up to Big Brother
  Lessons from Normandy
 
Appreciations
  Rehan De Silva
  Quinton Fernandopulle
  Ricky Price Coenraad (Ralph)
  Yogendra Duraiswamy
   
Arts
  Moving skies
  Evergreens back in the limelight
  What is Carnatic music?
  Literary animation at its best
   

Leisure
  Changing tastes
  Traeting beauty tenderly
   
Features
  Telling the story of his stories
  Teaching with a special touch
  Catch a falling star
   
Tribute
  Fifty years of service to the Sasana
   
People and events
  Commemorating birth anniversary of Madihe Pannaseeha Maha Nayaka Thera
  Kandy’s Zonta women to the fore
   

 


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