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		<title>SriLankan announces check in time changes at UL counters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SriLankan Airlines issuing a press release has announced that all SriLankan Airline economy class check in counters will be closed 60 minutes before schedule time of departure effective from February 01. The release further states that Check in time changes &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/srilankan-announces-check-in-time-changes-at-ul-counters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Colombo City Tour marked 2nd Anniversary with special CSR Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Colombo City Tour, Sri Lanka’s first ever open deck sightseeing tour which is a venture of Sri Lanka Tourism and Ebert Silva Holidays celebrated its 2nd Anniversary recently. To mark this event the Colombo City Tour team carried out &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/colombo-city-tour-marked-2nd-anniversary-with-special-csr-project/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Second Day of Gangarama Nawam Perahera</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The  annual Nawam Perahera of the Hunupitiya Gangarama Temple in Colombo paraded the streets yesterday (07). &#160; Prime Minister D.M.Jayarathne and Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa placed the sacred relics casket  on the ceremonial tusker at the Navam Maha Perahera &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/second-day-of-gangarama-nawam-perahera/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Let us drown out poverty in abundance of prosperity – President at Deyata Kirula</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends, &#160; I am very happy to be able to hold the Deyata Kirula National Exhibition amidst the villages of Oyamaduva in the Kingdom of Anuradhapura. Sixty Four years after we gained freedom this is the first morning that we &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/let-us-drown-out-poverty-in-abundance-of-prosperity-president-at-deyata-kirula/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka becomes a Port of call for luxury liners.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka has been earmarked as one of the most suitable tourist destination in the world by prestigious tourist literature publishers. Cruise ships carrying tourists have also started to anchor in the Sri Lankan ports. &#160; Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/sri-lanka-becomes-a-port-of-call-for-luxury-liners-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka becomes a Port of call for luxury liners.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka has been earmarked as one of the most suitable tourist destination in the world by prestigious tourist literature publishers. Cruise ships carrying tourists have also started to anchor in the Sri Lankan ports. &#160; Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/sri-lanka-becomes-a-port-of-call-for-luxury-liners/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Volunteers join at grass root Development Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Japanese volunteers have arrived in Sri Lanka recently with the aim of providing their expertise to improve and add value to activities carried out by various public institutions in the country. These volunteers are in Sri Lanka as a &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/japanese-volunteers-join-at-grass-root-development-efforts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Colombo courts complex will not be relocated &#8211; Justice Minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem, met with the lawyers of the Colombo Magistrate&#8217;s Court who were protesting under the assumption that the Colombo Magistrate&#8217;s Courts complex would be relocated and assured them that there were no plans by the Ministry of &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/colombo-courts-complex-will-not-be-relocated-justice-minister/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All set for a Grand Deyata Kirula National Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All arrangements are underway to hold the “Deyata Kirula” National exhibition at Oyamaduwa in the Anuradhapura district from the 4th to 10th of this month.  The exhibition will be ceremonially declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. &#160; Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/all-set-for-a-grand-deyata-kirula-national-exhibition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka Welcomes ‘Arcadia’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, along with the officials of Sri Lanka Port Authority, welcomed the vessel ‘Arcadia’ yesterday (02nd), at a brief ceremony held at the Colombo harbor. This luxury carrier, owned by the UK based company Carnival PLC, &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/sri-lanka-welcomes-arcadia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>US,EU punishing us, small countries &#8211; President Rajapaksa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the United States&#8217; and European Union&#8217;s combined sanction against Iran take effect, small nations like Sri Lanka are extremely worried  said  President Mahinda Rajapaksa  to Foreign Journalists, yesterday at the Temple Trees in Colombo.  Sri Lanka depends almost entirely &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/useu-punishing-us-small-countries-president-rajapaksa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dengue kills 18 in January</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Health informed that 2638 dengue patients were identified and 18 of them died during January this year. Majority of the patients were form the Colombo area. &#160; These details were disclosed at the first progress review meeting &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/dengue-kills-18-in-january/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Minister Basil counters criticisms of the UNP MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa  has lashed out at the UNP MP Dr. Harsha de Silva for his criticism over growing economic cooperation between Sri Lanka and China.  Dr. Harsha de Silva has said that Sri Lanka-China relations was &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/minister-basil-counters-criticisms-of-the-unp-mp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka’s January Inflation declined to 3.8%</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka&#8217;s inflation has declined further in January.  The inflation as measured by consumer prices in Colombo in January is 3.8%.  This is the lowest inflation recorded for the last two years. &#160; Data released yesterday by the Statistics Department &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/sri-lankas-january-inflation-declined-to-3-8/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>President rejects speculations about China’s dominance in Sri Lanka</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Mahinda Rajapaksa emphatically rejecting speculation that China is to build a naval base in Sri Lanka, has said that China’s presence in Sri Lanka is strictly business, and not political. He has said that no country has complained, not &#8230; <a href="http://firstlanka.com/english/news/president-rejects-speculations-about-chinas-dominance-in-sri-lanka/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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