Front Page News *Excited Lanka awaits
Lahore showdown * Kobbekaduwa Commision Crisis: Bar to defend Upawansa Yapa *
Pray for us, says Arjuna
News/Comment * Lankan consulate comes under fire
* DWC rejoins CWC * Ratnasiri sues Ravaya * Probe on IV fluids * Bail refused in PC murder case * Father in UAE jail on son's Birthday * Ms. B gets Lankan youth freed * Highway project runs into trouble * Minister assures action against corruption * Shocking details in Rajapakse's petition * Nature will say this is a man * School girl missing, police quiz NGO * Refugees run into more fire * Britain helps in ICRC work here * 30,000 Lankan children in sex trade * Missing persons: relief offers go a begging * CID interviews Kadurugamuwa * Saline dispute still dripping * Threat to campus * Cement mix-up: the plot thickens
Business News * World Bank - friend or foe *
BOTTOM LINE : Standard Charted;The Finance;Blue Diamonds;Reckit &
Colman;Ceylinco Securities;Colombo Land & Development;Pugoda Textiles;Tokyo
Cement * Your tea is like a gem, says Japanese tycoon * Trade Unions and EPF:
lesson from Malayasia * Economic vision above petty party politics * Committee
to study corporate governance * Commercial Bank reports exceptional growth
Plus * Seeing the "exotic other" -
a precursor of the modern guidebooks to Sri Lanka * Sri Lanka: the travails of a
democracy - a book by Dayan Jayatilleka reviewed
