CBK snubs Japan: refuses statement backing confab

• Mood in Tokyo optimistic: GL

• Call girls capitalise on spot visas

• Kadir: Me PM? No such move in the air or on the table

• Foreign office discusses new diplomatic postings

• One pleads guilty in US visa scam

• Upali Group to light up Situlpauwa

• Pilchard and sardines in addition to mackeral
  Ravi shoots down canned fish Mafia

• Journalistic doyen celebrates 85th birthday

• Prospects of investment, tourists from S. Korea

• 300,000 refugees return amid Sri Lanka truce

• Saddam survives bombing, flees into mountains

• Poor service by Telecom’s faults

• National policy for disabled now ready

• Two special stamps to mark holy Prophet’s Birthday

• Bhikku Convention vehemently opposes interim administration

• Cultural traditions must enrich int’l law — Prof. Weeramantry