21/08/2003 - The Island
Muslims receive secret arms training?
Militant Muslim youth are receiving weapons training and some are even believed to have been despatched abroad for the same purpose, informed sources told The Island on Tuesday...
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22/08/2003 - Daily Mirror (Financial Times)
Mobile sanitation from Milinda
A new service..will be started for the waste management in selected areas of Colombo…a concept of Minister Milinda Moragoda…for low-income families who live in shanties...
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24/08/2003 - Sunday Leader
Action plan for 'Regaining Sri Lanka' programme
In order to optimise pledges made at the Tokyo Donor Conference, the government has formulated an action plan under the Regaining Sri Lanka (RSL) programme… a Donor Assistance Co-ordinating Committee…being established to ensure… rapid progress… This committee…, will be chaired by Economic Reforms Minister Milinda Moragoda...
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26/08/2003 - Daily Mirror
"Ambassador" cars catch Lankans' fancy
Colombo - The invasion of a horde of sleek and swanky foreign models maybe giving the good old Ambassador car some anxious moments back home in India...
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28/08/2003 - Lanka Academic
Milinda says "Responsibilities of New Ministers must be Gazetted"
Minister for Economic Reform, Science and Technology Milinda Moragoda has told the Prime Minister that responsibilities of the new non-cabinet ministers appointed by the government must be gazetted soon...
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September, 2003 - Euromoney
Peace talks in Sri Lanka have prompted a mini-boom, with investors eager to profit from the potential of a country some hope will become the Singapore or Dubai of the sub-continent
IT HAS LONG bemused visitors to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo that Galle Face Green, the vast common around which the city’s faded hotels cluster, is not green at all but a stony, patchy brown...
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22/09/2003 - Daily Mirror
Minister Moragoda latest star in the UN drama
Minister Milinda Moragoda has become the latest actor to enter the scene in the drama over who should address the UN General Assembly session this year, as he was involved in informing the UN over who would address the assembly...
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28/09/2003 - Sunday Leader
Playing the International Field
While the opposition was thrown into disarray following the collapse of the SLFP-JVP talks, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe busied himself in New York widening the international safety net and support for the peace process and economic revival of the country...
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28/09/2003 - Sunday Leader
Annan under Pressure to Visit Wanni
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is reconsidering his visit to Colombo following a diplomatic offensive launched by the LTTE requesting him to meet with the LTTE leadership in the Wanni...
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28/09/2003 - Sunday Island
JR's Legacy
September 17th was J. R. Jayewardene’s birthday, which provides a good opportunity to glance once again at his legacy. Though 97 is not a particularly important anniversary, it makes sense to explore precisely what that was, and where it has led us...
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