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For year 2009:
Expats remit over Rs 350 b
Fourteen percent increase over 2008:
The remittances of expatriate Sri Lankans has
recorded an unprecedented increase to 3.3 billion dollars (Over Rs
350 billion) last year. It was a 14 percent increase over the
remittances during the previous year, 2008, Sri Lanka Bureau of
Foreign Employment (SLBFE) Chairman Kingsley Ranawaka said
yesterday.
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No setback in tea exports
There is no set back in tea production or tea
exports, Sri Lanka Tea Board Chairman Lalith Hettiarachchi said. Sri
Lanka is the largest exporter of pre-packed tea under brand name
among tea producing countries. Sri Lanka earns more revenue from tea
exports than other countries, he told the Daily News yesterday.
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False allegations to bring disrepute to Army
A post-mortem report on the corpse of a man
found floating in the Mailavattuvan river and report of a medical
examination on a girl allegedly sexually abused by soldiers had
proved that both these allegations were false and were meant to
bring disrepute to the army, senior army official sources said.
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