No move to increase fuel prices - Fowzie

Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Minister A.H.M. Fowzie yesterday assured that the Government had no immediate plans to increase fuel prices. On the contrary, his Ministry was looking at all avenues to bring down the price of fuel.

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Purported threat against editor a fabrication - Govt

Among the many unconfirmed and unsubstantiated allegations made in the latest report by Human Rights Watch on Sri Lanka, published on August 06, 2007, the item about President Mahinda Rajapaksa losing his temper and shouting at a Tamil newspaper editor has been found to be false and baseless.

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Normality returning to East - UN Humanitarian Chief

Wrapping up his four day observation mission in Sri Lanka, the visiting UN Humanitarian Affairs Chief Sir John Holmes said he could see normality returning to the lives of the people in the East.

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BUSINESS

Capital market to capture South Asia

THE Sri Lankan capital market will be regionally positioned for the South Asian region by 2015, which will be the engine of growth to facilitate economic development of the country, CSE sources said.

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