Lanka widely connected in South Asia - President

Learning English and IT, key aspects of economic growth:

Sri Lanka is glad to host this event because of our interest in the advance of telecommunications and because of our long and fruitful association with the Commonwealth. Having gained independence in 1948 Sri Lanka is one of the founders of this unique body of free and sovereign nations and has been closely associated with its work through more than six decades.

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We have now officially entered era of ‘off-shoring’ torture

The word economic comes from the Greek word for house, from which the word economist (‘one who manages a household’) is derived. It was essentially about ‘making ends meet’, the rupees and cents (or equivalents) of the day-in and day-out of individuals and families. Later of course some ‘householders’ figured out that the household’s fortunes can be considerably enhanced if they broadened horizons a little

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Catholic Church in Sri Lanka:

Working for the common good of all

In the past the Western powers ruled countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America by the power of the gun. Today they adopt various devices like globalisation, IMF, NGOs, multi-national companies consumerism and cultural invasion to keep the third world countries under their subjugation. The whole process interned as ‘Re-colonisation’ and they use Christianity too for their imperial designs

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