Economic progress next goal

The annual symposium 2010 with the theme ‘Sharing knowledge for sustainable peace’ will discuss many important aspects pertaining to peace. There are many important things we need to remember when we talk about sustainable peace.

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The Morning Inspection

How about celebrating ’78 Revolution?

This Constitution came around the time that J R Jayewardene famously said ‘let the robber barons come’. In other words he was telling the rich, powerful and unscrupulous of the world that the resources of this country was theirs to plunder and the labour theirs to exploit.

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On My Watch

Tamil ‘refugees’ who holiday in Sri Lanka

Pro-LTTE asylum seekers in Australia cannot be enjoying the indecisive result of the Australian national poll paving the way to the first hung Parliament in the country since World War II. It is not the stability of the Canberra Legislature that worries them but that either candidate who scrapes through to form a coalition has stood firmly against unlimited freedom to asylum seekers

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Story of ghost ship Sun Sea:

Failed voyage

The Tigers - suspected by many of having run the Sun Sea as a fundraising operation - have a long history of operating in Thailand. The country’s lax borders and laissez-faire policing made it an ideal logistics and supply centre during the Tigers’ three-decade struggle for independence

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