Govt resettles record number
10,000 IDPs sent back in one week:
Around 10,000 Internally Displaced Persons have
been resettled in their native places within the last seven days
providing them with health, shelter, sanitary, education, water,
electricity and other facilities in their villages, said Disaster
Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe.
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Gen Shwe opens Myanmar Chamber at Maligawa
Chairman of the State Peace and Development
Council of Myanmar General Than Shwe opened the Myanmar Chamber of
the International Buddhist Museum that is being constructed in the
premises of the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy yesterday.
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Lanka sign MoU for food security in S Korea
Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka
participated as the Chief Guest at the Asian Food and Agriculture
Cooperation Initiative AFACI meeting held recently in Seoul,
Republic of Korea. Twelve Asian countries took part at the signing
of a memorandum of understanding by high level officials.
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Commercial and fisheries harbours:
Oluvil Port construction in full steam
Under the Government initiatives to set up a
modern port system in the country, many ports are being constructed
throughout the coastal belt. Oluvil Port is being constructed with
the aim of getting maximum contribution from the port system to the
development of the country.
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President opens Nephrology Institute
The 111-bed National Institute of Nephrology,
Dialysis and Kidney Transplant at Maligawatte, Colombo will be
opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa today.
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