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		<title>Colombo readies for Fun &amp; Frolic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri  Lanka’s Colombo metropolitan is going to have fun and frolic in a   dedicated area to serve for night life in the post war era. Sri Lanka   especially the city of Colombo is becoming the busiest town with   business booming with influx of large number of tourists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka a land of promise with enhanced opportunities for Japanese co-operation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current situation in Sri Lanka, with the final  defeat of terrorism  and an unprecedented degree of political stability,  is conducive for  greater economic co-operation between Japan and Sri  Lanka. Professor  G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, and  Minister of Economic  Development Basil Rajapaksa said at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hambantota port to commence operation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The construction work of the first phase of the Hambanthota Port project is almost complete.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Ports and  Aviation Ranjith Silva said that the filling of water to the harbour  basin will be launched under the  patronage of  President Mahinda  Rajapaksa on August 15.
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		<title>Negotiation on the acquisition of Shell Gas to be completed this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high-level committee appointed by the Cabinet for the purchase of the controlling shares of the Shell Lanka Gas Company expects to
complete the negotiations within the next two days. The Chairman of the Committee and the Secretary to the Prime Minister Mr. S.Amerasekera told the Information Department this morning that the Bank of Ceylon has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Postal service has returned to normalcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Master General M.K.B. Dissanayake said the  work-to-rule campaign staged its employees yesterday was resolved with  the mediation of the Minister and the distribution of mails has returned  to normalcy.

He said that several Trade Unions staged a  work-to-rule campaign based on a disciplinary action initiated at the  Registration Division of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice consumption increased in the country</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the increase of the import duty on wheat grain by  Rs ten per kilo the per capita rice consumption in Sri Lanka has gone  up by 15% in the recent times.

Director General of Agriculture authority Kamal N.  Mankotte  said that the rice consumption per person has increased from  100 kilos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaffna Onion fetches good price in the southern market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the opening of the Jaffna &#8211; Kandy A-9 highway following the end of war, the red onion harvest of Jaffna is reaching south. The farmers bring their harvest to Dambulla Special Economic Center, a major wholesale food market in the country, to obtain better prices. Around 100,000 kilos of red onion reach the economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka’s Gold Reserves increased to U.S.$ 700 Million.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past 10 months the Central Bank has been successful in amassing the gold reserves to 21 metric tons of gold.  This is a huge
increase from the gold reserves the Central Bank held in vaults a few years ago. The Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Dharma Dheerasinghe has said there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam is to open an Embassy in Sri Lanka.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam will open an embassy in Sri Lanka&#8217;s early next year.  This has been disclosed by the Deputy Minister of External Affairs, Mr. Gitanjana Gunawardene, in a joint statement issued after a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Vietnam Mr. Dao Viet Trung. Deputy Ministers of both countries held a meeting on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka earned Rs. 382 Billion from Foreign Employment last year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The  remittances received last year from Sri Lankan expatriates topped  country’s foreign exchange earnings and amounted to Rs. 382 Billion. The  Minister of Youth Affairs Mr. Dallas Alahapperuma has said that  measures will be taken to double this amount and increase it to Rs. 764  Billion this year. Addressing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka records increased tea crops</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri  Lanka is on track for a record tea crop. Sri Lanka, one of the  world’s  biggest black tea exporters, produced nearly 30 percent more tea  in  the first half of the year. Tea is Sri Lanka’s biggest cash crop and  is  sold in overseas markets as “Pure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Export Quality Brushes produced locally.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the approval of Investment Development Board, a  plant has been  established to make yarn from plastic waste.  The plant,  Sri Lanka&#8217;s  Beira Enviro Solution, is owned by Moosajees Ltd, and is  located at the  Horana industrial estate with an investment of 300  million rupees.
It will manufacture high-quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalpitiya gets geared to the growing Tourist Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tourist sector investors are getting moved in to the  Kalpitiya Tourist  Zone, which is one of the high-end tourist Zones the  government  envisages to develop to facilitate the growing tourist  industry.  It is  expected to have at least 30 tourist projects in the  Kalpitiya Zone.   Eight projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murali&#8217;s World record haul will never be beaten- Government Spokesman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri  Lanka hopes that spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan&#8217;s world record  total  of 800 Test wickets will never be beaten. Government spokesman  Media  Minister Kehelliya Rambukwella while revealing the Cabinet  decisions at  his weekly post cabinet press meeting said that the  President has  already congratulated him and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Srilankan &#8211; the national airlines expands into hotel industry as well</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chairman of Sri Lankan Airlines Nishantha Wickremasinghe said Sri Lankan Airlines is to build a tourist hotel near the main International Airport at Katunayake.
The Chairman said they were about to start building an airport hotel right opposite  the departure lounge of the Katunaya Airport.. The
site is an abandoned factory at an export processing [...]]]></description>
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