Permanent houses for slum dwellers in Colombo - Azath Sally

Here are extracts of the interview:

The UPFA will definitely win all LG bodies for three reasons. They are the disunity of the UNP, its leadership crisis and the lack of credible people from UNP to contest. The UNP always had CMC power and changed only twice which was not due to the voters. But this time the UPFA will definitely win.

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Learning from disabilities

Chalindha Peiris is the son of one of my cousins. I first met him when he was about three years old. This was at my cousin’s house after the funeral of his grand uncle. He struck me as a bubbly, always-with-a-smile kid. I vaguely remember my father telling me that Chalindha suffered from some disorder of the nerves which impaired mobility. The next I saw him was a few years ago when he came to my late mother seeking advice regarding applying to universities in the USA. He had changed, naturally.

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US financial crisis: an economic Armageddon?

It was indeed a tireless and magnificent effort by the Congressional leaders of America to avert the country’s first ever financial default - inability to pay its debts - which would have meant defaulting on its legal obligations to pay social security and medicare benefits, salaries of military personnel, interest on the debt and other similar expenditure, putting the whole nation into economic and social chaos.

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