Vol. 20 No. 28

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• Ministry for Ronnie?
• Baby jumbos reluctantly return to the wild
• Thai envoy assures Buddhist clergy
  LTTE won’t be allowed to use Thai soil for subversive activities
• Minister’s wife snatches journalist’s tape recorder
• Colombo underworld acquire hi-tech arms and ammunition
• Sri Lankan Airlines improves its operational image
• "L" series not cancelled says Dy. Controller
• ADB to help fund eco-tourism project
• Kung-fu head complains of assault

• Indonesia under Abdurrahman Wahid
• LEGAL WATCH
  Media censorship - the saga continues

• LTTE retreats as army inches forward on Jaffna Peninsula
• Ronnie does it again!

• People and Events
  Two Sri Lankans capture international headlines
• Renowned photo-journalist turns 80
• Interim Council – ‘A joke’
• The Eastern province, Tamil claims and "colonisation’’
• Seafarers and Sea Sunday
• Maithripala Senanayake remembered
  Wrested power from the aristocrats
• A model to parliamentarians
• The Royal College - 1950 Group
• Railway transport conserver of energy and the linch-pin for our development
• Tales of a lifetime
  I fetched Bradman with a pineapple
• Cricket as global and honourable
• Mother’s World
  Help build confidence
• Babes in the wood!
• Mother occupies a very special place

• Sri Lanka cricket trying to raise its head again
• Marvan strikes gold with patience, persistence and perseverance
• Colombo’s ranking cycle race today
• Mahaweli Games to be held in Colombo?
• Sabaragamuwa Campus’ inaugural ‘colours nite’
• CR win as Navy flatter and fail
• Kandy take on Kurunegala
• Inter Club Rugby
  Police vs Kandy
• SLTFLY uplinks cricket to the world
• A batsman is born
• Some unusual puzzles umpires may have to face
• Ishan as Vice Captain
• Match-fixing ‘ball’ kindles border animosities
• No ‘Robes’ for Taekwondo

• An evening of elegance
• Aasath Nehe, Bayyath nehe!
• Living - now an indispensable luxury
• Chithrabharatham
• Brace Yourself...
• Korean food festival
• Flavours of Balsamico and Olive Oil!
• American Beauty

• Natural products exhibition - Amsterdam-Holland
• Bank of Ceylon SDGM appointed President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers - Colombo

• Distilleries too ups its stake
  HNB now No. 2 shareholder of DFCC Bank
• ‘Sampath stakes upped,’says Asia Securities
• Colombo Lands will pay off share-linked debentures in July
  Liberty Plaza owners to grow spices, develop multi-storey car parks
• Sale of Noritake shares yields big capital gain
  Group profit but company loss at Lanka Ceramics
• New team at Muller and Phipps
• Brewing conflict over Rs. 170 mn. investment by Lanka Ceramics
• Inter-Continental pulls out of Colombo
• Sri Lankan Airlines selects Three Coins beer for in-flight service
• Indian fiscal scene
• No War Footing without War Economy
• CDIC to go into housing finance via NDB- Indian joint venture
• Bartleet’s Weekly Market Commentary
• Bank of Ceylon helps subsidiary to trim interest
  Interest and provisions swallow Merchant Bank’s operational profits

O P I N I O N

• Lt. Prathapa M. Abeywickrama, SLN - Missing In Action
• Laws on apartments replete with glaring flaws and snags
• Sunday Leader judgement sends signal to the compliant bureaucracy
• Harsha Manamendra
  "What it looks, never seems to be so" - William Shakespeare
• Godwin Samararatne
• Don’t Catholics have a right to invest in business?
• Requiem on the COL