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| Tuesday 07 September 2010 |
Regional
hub-centre
for
trade
and
logistics
Peter
Barbut
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Sri Lanka, a
Future HUB for Trade and Logistics for the
Indian Sub Continent (ISC) Region. Today at
the higher corridors of the government,
there seems to be a lot of ambitious
thinking and forecasting in creating Sri
Lanka into a regional hub-centre for trade
and logistics, which will follow as one of
the next in-line revenue generators after
tourism in the coming years
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| Tuesday 17 August
2010 |
Harnessing
the blue
skies
and
seas;
Magampura
Port
development
speeds
up
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| "I am determined to
make our country the centre of the Asian
silk route once again taking advantage of
its unique geographical location. I intend
to develop it into a navigation, aviation,
trading and commercial centre linking the
East and West".
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| Friday 22 January
2010 |
Development
of
tourism;
Number
one
tourist
attraction
in the
world |
| "My intention is
to generate environmental friendly
sustainable tourism instead of relying only
on leisure seeking popular tourism",
stated President Mahinda Rajapaksa in
‘Mahinda Chintana’, his manifesto to develop
the country.
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| Friday 15 January
2010 |
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Eastern
Awakening |
| After nearly three
decades of oppression due to LTTE terrorism,
the Eastern Province was liberated with the
Mavil-Aru humanitarian operation, bringing
new hope for lasting peace and prosperity to
the region. Since the liberation, the people
of the East have seen positive changes.
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| Thursday 07 January
2010 |
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Generating
power
for
future
generations |
| At
present,
it is
estimated
that 77%
of the
households
have
electricity
with
grid
connections
whilst
3% are
served
by
off-grid
facilities.
The
annual
increase
in
demand
for
electricity
is
around
7%-8%.
Therefore,
around
200MW
needs to
be added
to the
system
annually.
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| Wednesday 30 December
2009 |
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Development of Sports |
“Schools should not
produce bookworms. Extracurricular
activities should be encouraged to produce a
very healthy nation, “sports should be
improved to international standards in the
schools”. This was President Mahinda
Rajapaksa’s vision in improve sports to
ensure the physical wellbeing of Sri Lanka’s
future generations.
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| Thursday 24 December
2009 |
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Tsunami - Five Years On |
| The Indian Ocean
tsunami which struck on 26 December 2004
caused the biggest natural disaster in the
history of Sri Lanka taking more than 35,000
lives. About two thirds of the coastline,
from the northern Jaffna peninsula along the
eastern coast to the southern tip, as well
as the relatively sheltered south western
and western coasts, was subjected to
inundation.
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| Tuesday 22 December
2009 |
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IT expands to all corners of the island |
| President Mahinda
Rajapaksa declared 2009 as Sri Lanka's Year
of English and IT.
In the ‘Mahinda Chintana’, my election
manifesto which received the endorsement of
the people, we recognized the importance of
rapidly creating a knowledge society in Sri
Lanka.
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| Monday 21 December
2009 |
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Development of health services |
| I consider it my
responsibility to preserve the free health
service and safeguard the right of every
citizen for the benefits there under. In
this regard, immediate action will be taken
to enhance these services both qualitatively
and quantitatively through increased
budgetary provisions, stated President
Mahinda Rajapaksa in ‘Mahinda Chintana’, his
manifesto to develop the country.
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| Monday 14 December
2009 |
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Development of roads and bridges |
| In an interview with
the Reuters in 2005 September, the then
Prime Minister and Presidential candidate
Mahinda Rajapaksa said that there were two
challenges before of him: one was to wipe
out terrorism and the second to develop the
country bringing benefit to all communities.
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Ports
development in the North and East |
| The Sri Lankan
government has commenced development of
ports not only in the western and southern
parts of the country but also in the Eastern
and Northern Provinces as well where
terrorism prevailed for nearly three
decades.
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Ports development speeds up |
| Sri Lanka is located in
the centre of the former Maritime Silk Route
which operated from around 250 BC connecting
ancient Alexandria with China. Its
geographic location is crucial to the
building of trade and cultural ties between
East and West.
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| Thursday 10 December
2009 |
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Milk production reaches highest ever mark |
| The milk production in
Sri Lanka has reached highest quantity so
far under the livestock and dairy
development programmes of the Government.
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