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Thursday, May 15  2008
      Editorial:Don’t divide the East!
President confident of settling
'Chief Minister dispute' amicably

‘It’s up to me to appoint CM;
why should others worry?’

The UPFA was confident of settling the tussle over the post of chief minister in the Eastern Province, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told The Island from London in a brief telephone conversation. "I am in touch with all the parties concerned and when I return I will settle it amicably," he said.
President Rajapaksa said the deserving candidate should get it regardless ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa with Lord Butler of Brockwell, Master of the University College Oxford.

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Should Jayawardene be axed as captain?

Should Sri Lanka's selectors split the captaincy and axe Mahela Jayawardene as ODI captain ?

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JVP has failed to keep pace with changing world
Accuses JVP of leading youth to UNP

Dissident JVP parliamentary group leader and President of the new political party, launched yesterday, the National Freedom Front (NFF), ...

Lanka's food crisis worsened by terrorism
– MR tells Oxford Union

President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday said empowerment of the rural economy was the central theme of his development strategy for Sri Lanka.

Amendments to EPF Act to benefit members
Nearly 2.1 million EPF members are to benefit from Amendments to the EPF Act No. 15 of 1958, which will be presented in Parliament next month, Presidential Secretariat sources said yesterday.
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