Reining the NGOs, INGOs

Certain standards are required to regulate these organizations. The standards should be included the Constitution with minimum requirements decided by law. This is the basic paper which governs the entire process of the organization.It also requires certain financial standards such as Sri Lanka Accounting Standard to ensure that all the accounts are being prepared in a uniform manner with utmost transparency. There should be a law to wind up an organization, to take action against any erroneous act or malpractice of an organization and the persons involved.

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Feeling Asia’s economic pulse

There is now a debate whether the worst of the global economic crisis is over. Meanwhile, recent reports and data show that the Asian region and particularly South-East Asia is suffering from declining economic and industrial growth and collapsing export earnings.

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A river for Jaffna – the Arumugam Plan

Eng. S Arumugam published A River for Jaffna in 1954 which became known as the Arumugam plan. His son Eng. Thiru Arumugam provided a synopsis of the plan for a Pugwash workshop on “Learning from ancient hydraulic civilizations to combat climate change”, Colombo, Nov. 2007, as follows: Jaffna Peninsula with an area of about 400 sq. miles, is relatively flat and has no rivers.

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Who is afraid of the Diaspora?

A young Adolf Hitler then a down and out tramp walking the streets of Vienna with ambitions of becoming a successful painter, records in ‘Mein Kamph’ written much later at a mature thirty five, his first encounter with a Jew.

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