David Cameron‚ who is The United Kingdom’s current Prime Minister wishes to visit the war torn north of Sri Lanka in order to find out in detail what exactly went on over the course of about a half years’ time‚ and what has led to the horrific deaths of so many of its civilians. Cameron has requested a meeting with the controversial President of Sri Lanka‚ Mahinda Rajapaksa‚ after what the United Nations believes to be extremely heinous deaths of over 40‚000 civilians over the course of the last
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SRI LANKA Welcome all of you to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon before 1972 and became independent in 1948.its 1972 constitution claimed it an independent republic. Based on Geography profile showing that Sri lanka is about 65‚610sq/km between West Asia and South East Asia. Sri Lanka is an island-nation situated in the Indian Ocean‚ off the south-eastern coast shores of India.‚ Sri Lanka is a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation‚ where almost 70 percent of the population follows Buddhism
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TODAY’S SRI LANKA Development’s from 2010 to 2012 TODAY’S SRI LANKA Sri Lanka successfully concluded a war against a terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. There has been no terrorist violence in Sri Lanka since the end of the conflict. Today‚ Sri Lanka today is aggressively promoting ethnic reconciliation‚ redevelopment of conflict-affected areas and expanded trade and foreign investment for the restoration of normalcy throughout the island. Sri Lanka successfully
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Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with
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them. The only remembrance I have from them is my grandmother’s wedding ring that she had left for me. I started attending the Sri Lankan events a year ago. I would go by myself. I wouldn’t parade the fact that my father was Sri Lankan‚ but I wouldn’t keep it a secret either. Some approached me and curiously asked me what was my heritage. Then I would tell them my father is Sri Lankan and they would immediately be in awe and start sharing it with everyone. They are very friendly people. They come with
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Economy of Sri Lanka From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Economy of Sri Lanka | World Trade Center in Colombo | Currency | Sri Lankan rupee (LKR) | Fiscal year | Calendar year | Trade organisations | SAFTA‚ WTO | Statistics | GDP | US$ 64 Billion (2012 IMF est.) / US$ 170 Billion PPP[1] | GDP growth | 7.2% (2012 est.)[2] | GDP per capita | US$ 3200 (2012 est.) / US$ 7900 USD PPP[2] | GDP by sector | agriculture: 12.8%; industry: 29.2%; services:
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McDonald Sri Lanka is governed by the Head Office in USA who has total control on all activities in Sri Lanka. Everything from menus to promotions is directed from the US Head Office. Parameters they look at before entering a market include : The fast food culture itself was looked into. That is Mc Donald’s saw that KFC and Pizza Hut were already established in Sri Lanka Way they chose a franchisee are: Mc Donald’s requested for applications and financial stability was looked into. One of
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Paper No. 133 The History and Value of the Elephant in Sri Lankan Society by Ranjith Bandara and Clem Tisdell November 2005 THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ISSN 1327-8231 WORKING PAPERS ON ECONOMICS‚ ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Working Paper No. 133 The History and Value of the Elephant in Sri Lankan Society by Ranjith Bandara† and Clem Tisdell* † Department of Economics‚ University of Colombo‚ Colombo 3‚ Sri Lanka. Email: rbandara@econ.cmb.ac.lk * School of Economics
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ICT/BPO is Sri Lanka’s 6th largest export earner:EDB survey | By Bandula Sirimanna | The ICT/BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry posted revenues of US$ 310 million in 2010/2011 becoming Sri Lanka’s 6th largest export earner.Exports from this sector rose by 47% from US$ 210 million in 2009/2010 and are set to reach $1 billion by 2015 if this momentum is continued in the coming years‚ said Export Development Board‚ (EDB) Chairman Janaka Ratnayake at a press conference in Colombo this week
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Genocide in Sri Lanka To quote the late Chinese politician Mao Tse-Tung a‚ “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” Genocide; is the deliberate and systematic destruction‚ in whole or in part‚ of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or national group. But why do we participate in a matter that can only have a negative outcome? The ongoing struggle can be related to the religious‚ political and the European intervention to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka a small island that lies
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