Vol. 20 No. 26

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• Tamil roadblock for emerging PA - UNP consensus
• Referendum neither "practical nor feasible" - Ashraff
• Anti-LTTE protest by Lankans in Rome
• Sri Lanka offers "interim council" to north and east for five years
• Australia, Lanka in touch over illegal immigrants
• AG knows nothing about re-opening Eppawela case
• TNL withdraws petition
• Military cargo at Wattala warehouse Sri Lanka informed of transhipment - Bangladesh diplomat
• TELO not invited
• Bogey of cooking oils
  Plea to curtail misleading advertisements
• Terrorist bunker destroyed - Govt.
• Shell Gas won’t increase price
• Remembering the heroes
• ‘Our World Through Colours’
• Bridal Show
• Goes abroad for social study
• Office-bearers
• Free animal sterilising
• Handwoven exhibits
• New Chairman of NAITA
• Australia helps magnanimously to uplift health services
• Promoting Buddhism in Europe
• Sahanaya promotes "Healing Arts"

• More on India’s interests in Sri Lanka
  'Colombo - India’s first line of defence'
• Legal Watch
  Administering the North and East

• LTTE prepares for another try at Jaffna
• Soaring cost of living —
  Disenchantment grows in PA camp

• People and Events
  Madman who contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary
• Down Memory Lane
  Horse racing on the havelock race course
• Reflections on a pageant of percussion
• Former DIG S.Vamadevan recounts the funny side of senior cops’ lives in old Ceylon
  Fun, frolic, foibles of the force
• Conservation or control: Why the World Bank?
• Land in limbo for Serupitiya villagers
• Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation of Sri Lanka sponsors Buddha Poornima celebrations
• Girish Karnad in Tamil
• Sixth A330 airbus acquired
  Fly high with pride
• Exclusive to the Sunday Island
  UNDP Poverty Report, Janasaviya and PA’s disaster economics - [Part 1]
• The Asiaweek Report
  Tracking Tigers in Phuket
• How the Bangkok Post saw it
  Sub discovery thwarts Tiger sabotage plot in SL
• Asiaweek raise the curtain of LTTE honeymoon in Thailand
• Meeting of the Kims in Pyongyang
• ATM users beware
• Sex education in schools

• When and how is Sri Lanka to resurrect national cricket?
• Warm welcome awaits Pakistan cricketers in Kandy
• Sri Lanka 123 for 2 wkts. at lunch
• Trinity gears for Bradby 2nd leg
• Schools President’s Trophy K/O
  Thurstan oust Isipatana
• Easy for Thomians
• No sensations at 2nd athletic trials
• Pakistan memories in Kandy

• Ideas in Style
• Women ‘more happy than men to go to work’
• Yamuna Nayanakanthi’s First CD Disc
• Givenchy make–up for Sri Lankan skin
• Building bridges of friendship
• Do women make better bosses?

• New players at Sampath lookfor four places on board
• Post-tax profit up 38% to Rs. 168 mn.
  Mercantile Investments pays 200% dividend second year running
• Investment in associate turns sour
  Rs. 44 mn. write-off hurts LOLC profitability
• KG Group unhappy about proposed Singalanka sell-off
  Reconstitute board ahead of asset sale says shareholder
• New stakeholders eyeing place on DFCC board?
• The Citadel profitable despite quality compeitition in Kandy
• Direct flights to Dhaka and Milan
• Bata gifts shareholders 25% discount vouchers
• Ocean-front leisure homes forlornly awaits buyers
• Forbes Weekly Report
• Operating profit barely dents interest costs
  Korea Ceylon slashes losses but fights liquidity squeeze
• Bartleets Weekly Market Commentary
• Tangerine boosts occupancy, awaits tax-free returns from subsidiary
• Telecom operators call for level business environment
• Equity up from Rs. 0.4 mn. to Rs. 35 mn., shareholders funds Rs. 169 mn.
  Chemanex reports satisfying 25-year growth
• Lower tax charge helps Habarana Lodge to double profits
• Bonanza for SriLankan Airlines’ Customers
• Hayleys Photoprint to supply x-ray systems to southern hospitals

• All doctors are not bad
• C. V. Gooneratne - Reminiscences
• Appreciations
  A tribute to a charming Royal Lady — Mrs. Shyama Gooneratne
• C.V.Gooneratne
• High Court Judge Kulasiri Kalawilla
• Clodagh Nethsinghe
• Cost of living and energy