The Sunday Times Sri Lanka | Sunday October 21, 2007

PLUS	FINANCIAL TIMES
Kidney trouble	BPO in the A’pura backwoods
The verbal “agreement” was simple. “Give us a kidney and we’ll give you a million rupees, was the ‘agreement’,” alleges Anoma* from a southern town, who nearly two years after the donation has filed a complaint of wanchawa (cheating), in what is believed to be an unprecedented incident in the country.	MAHAVILACHCHIYA, Anuradhapura - Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) is a growing business globally which Sri Lanka has now cottoned onto quite capably.Dozens of BPO’s are springing up here as global companies look for cost effective ways of handling their back-office operations in countries where labour and communications....
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Living on the edge	World’s first clean fabric manufa...
While residents in Colombo and areas outside the conflict zones often grumble about the cost of living, opportunist politicians and the lack of accountability by state institutions, their counterparts in war-torn Jaffna are a community virtually on the run.	The world’s first eco friendly fabric and apparel manufacturing zone began business in Thulhiriya in north central Sri Lanka on Friday. Fabric manufacturing is known as a polluting industry but on Friday the MAS Fabric Park went public as the world’s first fabric and apparel manufacturing zone.....
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COLUMNS
Political	Thoughts from London
UNP misses golden opportunity to work with JVP	All bluster ministry misses the bus

Telescope	Focus on Rights
The Tamils are ‘a people’—though a minority	Blind refusal to see the realities for .......
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SPORTS	INTERNATIONAL
	INTERNATIONAL \| Karachi
Cricket mess: Arjuna hits out	Army men on Bhutto’s list of....
Sri Lanka’s World-Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga yesterday came out hard on the present state of cricket in the country, saying he may have to step in to undo the present mess.He said “It’s sad to see things deteriorating fast.	Pakistan probed today a list of possible suspects given by former premier Benazir Bhutto after a suicide assassination bid that killed 139 people and bloodied her return from exile. Bhutto said she had sent President Pervez Musharraf the ......

	INTERNATIONAL \| India
This time it’s rugby chaos	Official’s secret act: RAW and sex
Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge has this time summoned the Chairman of the Rugby Selection Committee Anton Benedict. This was in the wake of the axing of five players who went to France to watch the final of the Rugby World Cup.	Those who knew of him believed Ravi Nair, senior intelligence man, lived a charmed life. An officer at the joint secretary level in the Research and Analysis Wing, Nair wangled plum postings, allegedly pocketed secret funds......
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MIRROR	FUNDAY
Any dream will do	The ban imposed by burma
"I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain To see for certain what I thought I knew Far far away, someone was weeping But the world was sleeping Any dream will do."	Sri Lanka and Burma are Buddhist countries. There continued a long-standing friendship between these two countries. The kings of both countries often exchanged gifts. This practice continued for a number of years. By 1164 AD, the king of Burma was Alausithee. Just as his predecessors did, he too, continued to be friendly with the king of Sri Lanka at the time, King Parakramabahu. The Burmese king had a hot temper that was easily provoked.
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TV TIMES	MEDISCENE
‘Nisala Gira’ fights against narcotic	Breast-checks can save you
Tanuj Anawaratne and Yolanda Weerasinghe's debut direction and production Nisala Gira (Silent Honour), is a story of a woman who became a victim of drugs and her own fate started its release at Regal Cinema, Colombo and other CEL circuit cinemas from October 18. Playing the lead, internationally acclaimed actress Nita Fernando acts multiple roles as....	'Cancer' is the most dreaded word that any of us can hear when we go to the doctor for a consultation. For women in any part of the world, the most likely cancer is breast cancer. Years ago it was cancer that drew the line between life and death. With newer treatment modalities, today, everything depends on whether it's early breast cancer or a late presentation, ....
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