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Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal - Bloomberg Bloomberg, 2012-02-03 03:04:31 EST. Enlarge image Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg Ajith Nivard Cabraal, governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka... 
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Sri Lanka: first rate rise in 5 years - Financial Times (blog) Financial Times (blog), 2012-02-03 09:49:20 EST. Sri Lanka's central bank raised key interest rates for the first time in five years on Friday and directed banks to slow lending in an effort to curb credit growth and to stem the worsening balance of payments...
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Sri Lanka cenbank allow rupee fall; stx slips - Reuters Reuters, 2012-02-03 11:34:18 EST. Cbank still defends rupee pumping $30 mln * Cenbank raise rates, caps banks' credit * Foreign inflow at 71.5 mln rupees COLOMBO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank depreciated the rupee currency by 20 cents on Friday after it surprised the ...
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Human Rights Study Project Visits Sri Lanka - Virginia Law Weekly Virginia Law Weekly, 2012-02-03 13:02:51 EST. By Michelle Carmon '14 The 10th Cowan Fellows Human Rights Study Project (HRSP) team traveled to Sri Lanka from January 1-17, 2012...
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Sri Lanka: UN Must Act at Next Human Rights Council Session - Reuters AlertNet Reuters AlertNet, 2012-02-02 17:33:55 EST. (New York) - The United Nations Human Rights Council should address the lack of accountability for wartime abuses in Sri Lanka during its March 2012 session, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Human Rights Council (HRC) member countries and ...
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Sri Lanka says over 7 lakh war refugees resettled - Zee News Zee News, 2012-02-02 16:30:31 EST. Officials said this included all civilians displaced by the government's successful military campaign against the LTTE...
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Togo Authorities Holding 150 Sri Lanka Refugees - ABC News ABC News, 2012-02-02 16:55:29 EST. Foreign governments and human rights groups have heavily criticized Sri Lanka's human rights record, especially during the final stages of the civil war that ended with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009...
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Sri Lanka's Holy Grail of resorts completes restoration - eTurboNews eTurboNews, 2012-02-02 23:31:36 EST. To those veterans of the travel and tourism industry, the formerly known Blue Lagoon in Thalahena is indeed the Holy Grail: officially Sri Lanka's first planned resort, as well as being the amazing Geoffrey Bawa's first resort design...
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Sri Lanka bourse slips ahead of policy rates, IMF - Reuters Reuters, 2012-02-02 14:15:30 EST. Bourse at 1-wk low in thin volume, turnover * Investors await for rate decision, IMF comments * Foreign inflow at 116.1 mln rupees * Cbank defends rupee with $28 mln COLOMBO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's share market fell more than 1 percent on ...
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Sri Lanka bans import of Pakistani medicines - The Express Tribune The Express Tribune, 2012-02-02 01:21:58 EST. Following the PIC medicine debacle, Sri Lanka has banned the import of medicines from Pakistan — a move that would badly hurt the export of locally-manufactured medicines, which had surged to over $400 million over the last two years...
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Sri Lanka to build museum chamber for Zheng He - China.org.cn China.org.cn, 2012-02-02 06:56:50 EST. Sri Lanka will build a memorial chamber for Chinese traveler Zheng He inside the Maritime Museum in southern Dutch Fort city Galle, an official said Wednesday...
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Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam Dislodges Sri Lanka - Salem-News.Com Salem-News.Com, 2012-02-02 17:37:46 EST. The Foreign Ministry contingent led by Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to the UK Dr Chris Nonis had to change tactic and react in submission...
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China's buses to ease Sri Lanka's transport - China Daily China Daily, 2012-02-02 00:44:43 EST. Chinese built luxury super low flow buses are to ease the traffic congestion in Sri Lanka, a spokesman said on Wednesday...
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That by just visiting this page, you are helping a student in rural Sri Lanka
gain education?
By Carlo Fonseka, may 13.
At one point in your very perceptive editorial of 10 May titled "Pay them more; make them work harder" you refer to President Mahinda Rajapaksha's appeal to expatriate Sri Lankan experts including academics to return and help develop the country. Then you ask rhetorically: "But who will want to answer his call, return home and settle for a pittance?" Please give me a little space to tell The Island the story of two such persons - Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole and his wife Dr. Dushyanthi Hoole, who answered the President's call and the consequent unhappiness they have had to endure.
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