Rebuilding Lanka project gathering pace

TAFREN Chief Mano Tittawella says that he is confident of rebuilding 80 per cent of the 75,000 housing units which were destroyed or damaged due to the tsunami, by December this year. "We are confident that 80 per cent of the destroyed houses outside and inside the buffer zone will be done by December. A lot of people thought that we won't be able to do anything. Come December, they will all be totally silent," Tittawella said in an interview with the Daily News.

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Lakshman Kadirgamar - decisive influence on history

Friday, August 12 was one of Sri Lanka's darkest days when the country lost a true patriot and one of the most capable and distinguished Foreign Ministers we have ever had, Lakshman Kadirgamar.

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