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COMPASSION - Lord Buddha Made a Elephant Tusker kneel In Front Of Buddha. Did You Believe That. SEE THIS..
Tuesday, 2 November 2010 - 1:31 AM SL Time
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TIGER TEMPLE IN THAILAND........
This is extraordinary
The tiger temple in Thailand is a place where an extraordinary bond between man and the world`s biggest cats has been formed. The tigers here are so peaceful its almost as if they have accepted Buddhism as their religion. In fact, they even sit for the meditating sessions with the monks and kneel down in front of them as it they are the gurus. The tigers are so docile that the monks have to sometimes train them to fight otherwise they would lose all their power of self protection.
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No country in the world with a Parliamentary Democracy has vacated an MP post on a military court decision l
Wednesday, 3 November 2010 - 9:08 AM SL Time
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(Lanka-e-News 01.Nov.2010 11.50PM) Oppsoition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said, no country in the world where there exists a Parliamentary Democracy ,an MP post has been terminated on the decision of a military court.
He further added that like how a military court decision cannot terminate the post of a Parliamentary member , it cannot also mete out jail sentence to a member of Parliament.
While this the legal position . Withdrawing the MP post and meting out jail sentence to the former Army Commander and Colombo District MP Sarath Fonseka based on a military court decision only demonstrates the despotic and dictatorial administration in this country.
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Newly Appointed LTTE Leader Wants A Speedy Political Solution for Tamils.
Thursday, 4 November 2010 - 9:36 AM SL Time
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New Sri Lanka Cardinal calls for a political solution to the conflict
Nov 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka`s newly appointed Cardinal Most Rev. Dr. Malcolm Ranjith called today for a speedy political solution for the country`s decades-long ethnic strife.
Testifying before the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) today, the Catholic Cardinal called on the government to speed up the process to find a political solution to the issue that is ravaging the country for decades.
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SL - Businesses should develop Rice Based Food products - Flakes, roti, noodles, crispies, porridge, dried indiaappa, aappa....
Thursday, 4 November 2010 - 11:43 PM SL Time
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As a result of a shortage in wheat flour, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reduced its ration to resettled people by 50 per cent, officials said yesterday.
The WFP said it was compelled to cut down the wheat flour ration after a careful review of the resources available to them.
We hope this is only a temporary measure, and new contributions will be forthcoming to allow the WFP to continue assisting men, women and children with their food requirements, the official said.
The WFP said in addition to pulses, sugar and oil its food basket which comprised 200 grams of wheat flour and rice was given to a person each day.
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What a Wastage Of Time, Money and Other Resources - Who are they proving to ?
Saturday, 6 November 2010 - 12:49 AM SL Time
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Elaborate arrangements for President`s swearing-in
The Organizing Committee for the inauguration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa for a second term of Office has emphasized that the ceremony will be celebrated as a National event.
All posters, banners and cutouts connected with the event should have only the pictures of the President and no other individuals.
Committee Chairman Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka added that this directive should be applied islandwide and that all posters, banners etc should not include names of other individuals or party colours. He impressed on the need to conduct celebrations in a manner befitting a National event. He said the President was elected for a second term with an overwhelming mandate and the inauguration ceremony will be an event which is important for everyone and not exclusively for a political party or a group of individuals.
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PRison Officals Support Kudu BusinesS - Kudu Naufer runs narco racket from his prison cell
Saturday, 6 November 2010 - 2:55 PM SL Time
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Notorious gangster `Kudu` Naufer, serving a life sentence at Bogambara for ordering the assassination of Colombo High Court Judge Sarath Ambepitiya, is allegedly running a major heroin distribution racket from his cell. Senior DIG Gamini Navaratne, in charge of the Central Range, told The Island that the police had questioned Naufer after receiving information regarding his activities
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Government yesterday expressed its willingness to study the pros and cons of the Gaming Bill - I think the GOvt Can DO Better than this.
Sunday, 7 November 2010 - 1:18 AM SL Time
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By Yohan Perera
The government yesterday expressed its willingness to study the pros and cons of the Gaming Bill which is to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday as the religious leaders and opposition parties were opposing the proposed Bill.
Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne gave this assurance at a ceremony held at Nalandarama Nugegoda to mark the opening of the new Dharma Shalawa last evening.
Gaming is allowed in specific places in some countries though it is banned but we can discuss and see what we could do,` he said stressing that factors such as gaming could not be eradicated totally. He said it was the same with narcotic drugs. Our government is keen to ban the use of drugs but it is not possible to eradicate it totally, he added.
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Our superior officers came to our villages and told not to participate in General s protests, and they will give car permits, houses etc. if we keep away. Kelaniya goons and marauders plan to attack the disabled soldiers at welikade
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 - 2:42 AM SL Time
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Soldiers take to the streets on behalf of the General:
Kelaniya goons and marauders plan to attack the disabled soldiers at welikade
(Lanka-e-News, Oct.09, 2010, 9.55AM) The disabled pensioned soldiers who were to stage a protest demanding the release of Gen. Fonseka at Welikade Prison this afternoon (08) had to change their venue of protest to Lipton circus roundabout after they suspected that a group of goons and marauders of Kelaniya were to arrive at Welikade and attack them.
These soldiers had planned to stage their demonstrations in front of the Welikade prison at 3.00 p.m. demanding the release of Fonseka. But before that a group of about 200 goons and marauders have arrived there and staged a protest against the attack on the police at the Prisons yesterday.
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Hadron Collider Produces `Mini Big Bang` - That Can not be a Big Bang as It Did Not Create Something From Nothing.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 - 11:23 PM SL Time
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Scientists Record 1st Lead Ion Collisions in Atom Smasher in Search of Universe-Forming Quark-Gluon Plasma
(AP) Scientists at the world`s largest atom smasher said Monday they have succeeded in recreating conditions shortly after the Big Bang by switching the particles they use for collisions from protons to much heavier lead ions.
The Large Hadron Collider recorded its first lead ion collisions on Sunday and has since stabilized the twin beams sufficiently to start running physics experiments, said a spokeswoman for the The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
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Tamils Want to Harm Tamils - What does Thivya say, Caste Problem Don`t allow Superiority ?
Thursday, 11 November 2010 - 10:33 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka Defence Ministry has ordered protection to Ms. Imelda Sukumar, Jaffna Government Agent (GA) in response to complaint made by her to the ministry of continuous threat to her life through phone calls, sources in Jaffna said. Her residence in the Old Park in front of Jaffna Government Secretariat is being guarded by SLA from Wednesday morning while her office is provided with police protection, the sources added.
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JAPANESE EYE TEST
Friday, 12 November 2010 - 5:31 AM SL Time
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If you cannot decipher anything, then try pulling the corner of your eyes as if you were Japanese. Keep pulling until your eyes are almost closed...It works.
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The Local Government Bill Is Good For the Country - Former CJ - Opposition Charges are Baseless.
Friday, 12 November 2010 - 11:12 PM SL Time
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The Local Government Bill that has been proposed, where they intend on having a certain proportion elected through the First-Past-The-Post system and the rest through the Proportional Representation system. Do you feel minority parties will get adequate representation through this system?
In my view it is a good system. Because especially in local government there has to be someone to take responsibility, for the smallest entity the ward. Now under the present system you don`t get that. Now if you take the provincial council there are so many members you don`t know whose from this particular Ward- so he can always say no this is not my ward, this is someone else`s ward I got my preferential votes from somewhere else . But here there is a fixation of responsibility and I think that is a very important thing. Even for minority parties this is good because the Ward is a really small entity, so if the minority is concentrated in a particular area there is every possibility that their candidate will be elected, this would guarantee a lot of things. The mixed system between the FPTP and the PR will be an equalizer with regard to the numerical strength of parties so I think it is a good experiment to try. And I am very hopeful that it will succeed and I think that it should be brought to the national level as well.
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Who Revealed the WHITE FLAG CASE. But, General Fonseka Is in the Jail.
Monday, 15 November 2010 - 3:06 AM SL Time
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General Sarath Fonseka who commandeered the war is now charged for making provocative statements creating unrest and communal problems in the country and inconveniencing the government because Editor of SUNDAY LEADER published a controversial report. The unanswered question we should ask from her is `did she published this sensational story to please certain people in the defence establishment`, when General Fonseka declared that all those LTTE leaders who got killed on the battle field during the final battle died due to the war.
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Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had called for a new people-friendly political and development culture in the country. - VERY TRUE
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 - 5:08 AM SL Time
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Addressing the party`s Grama Charika program in Polonnaruwa on Sunday, Mr. Wickremesinghe stressed the need for changing the political culture created by the preferential votes system. He said the Preferential Voting system had distanced many political parties including the UNP from the people in the grass route level.
Many political parties have lost their relationship from the households because of the manapa system, he said.
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meditation and other `contemplative practices` can improve compassion, empathy, kindness and attention. They support the concept that even adult brains can change through experience and learning.
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 - 9:19 AM SL Time
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Scientist Inspired By Dalai Lama Studies Happiness
After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question.
Scientists often study depression, anxiety and fear, but why not devote your work to the causes of positive human qualities like happiness and compassion? the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader asked.
`I couldn`t give him a good answer,` recalled Davidson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist.
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Presidential pardon for death penalty accused Precedent - setting Micromanagement - Promoting Future VIP - Killers ?
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 - 11:10 PM SL Time
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The former Basnayake Nilame of the Ratnapura Saman Dewale Anton Tennekoon who was sentenced to life imprisonment over the killing of his mistress was released by the Colombo High Court today after he was pardoned by the President.
Anton Tennekoon was accused of killing his mistress Kalyani Gankanda on February 13, 2002 by shooting her. He was thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court and he appealed against the judgment to the Court of Appeal.
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Mahinda and Gota know in their conscience that Gen. Fonseka won at the Presidential elections that is why they are so mortally frightened of him -Mangala
Friday, 19 November 2010 - 12:18 AM SL Time
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(Lanka-e-News, Nov.18, 2010, 9.50PM) UNP Matara District MP Mangala Samaraweera said, the first Presidential five year term of Mahinda Rajapakse is concluding today, after installing the terrorism of Rajapakse family`s bosom friends in place of tiger terrorism.
The Govt. has spent nearly Rs. 5000 million for the swearing in ceremony of the President for his second term. In addition more monies are being spent to plant 11 lakhs trees.
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Lebanese activist couple to be deported - Sri Lankan politicians are Clowns too.
Saturday, 20 November 2010 - 12:01 AM SL Time
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Immigration and Emigration authorities said that a Lebanese couple who took part in a political demonstration will be deported.
Lebanese Democratic Youth Union Leader Mohamed Hottait and his wife were arrested by the police in Kandy.
Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Parliamentarian Vijitha hearath said that the Lebanese couple participated in a demonstration held in Colombo to protest on an attack on DNA parliamentarian Sunil Handunneththi in Jaffna.
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EVERY MP Has the Permission TO Become a IMPORT LUXURY - AUTO DEALER.
Saturday, 20 November 2010 - 2:46 PM SL Time
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More MPs can now import luxury vehicles
In a strange turn of events, the Treasury has amended the circular relating to vehicle imports enabling more MPs to import vehicles for their personal use under duty concessions, government sources said yesterday.
In a circular issued earlier this year, the government decided to issue permits for MPs to import vehicles with duty concessions if they had not used this facility during the past five years. The five year period was counted from the day when an MP had imported his vehicle to the country. As such most members who were in the previous parliament were not entitled for new permits since they were yet to complete the required five year period.
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Becuase of Politics, Sri Lanka is highly Degraded Society, Jayawardanapura is a Hora Guhawa
Monday, 22 November 2010 - 12:22 AM SL Time
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In February 2010 following the detention of presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, the Mahanayakes of Asgiriya and Malwatte summoned a Sangha Council, or Assembly of Monks. This was an extremely rare occurrence in the 2,500 history of Buddhism in the country, and in the past most often took place when the assembly decided to advise the king on good governance. Immediately after this announcement, a delegation of government ministers met with the Mahanayakes to discourage them from holding the assembly.
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Tamil Expansionism - Gandhian Movement Gone with SJVC and LTTE, Now Ramanathan Trust - GOSL is DEAF.
Monday, 22 November 2010 - 6:28 AM SL Time
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Ramanathan Trust endows land to Upcountry Tamil tenets in Vanni
[TamilNet, Friday, 19 November 2010, 17:39 GMT]
In a significant move Friday, the president of Sir. P. Ramananthan Trust, former senior professor S.K. Sitrampalam, donated the lands of the Trust in Ki`linochchi to 60 families of Upcountry Tamils who were long-term tenets of those lands. The families uprooted in the recent war were unable to claim housing aid supposed to come through an Indian aid programme in the absence of ownership-documents of the lands, which they were inhabiting for a long time. The Ramanathan Trust was owning 330 acres of productive farmland in Ki`linochchi, which was settled by the Upcountry Tamils for several decades.
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15 Million Cell Phones in Sri Lanka. but, NO Assembly Plant, all Imported ?
Tuesday, 23 November 2010 - 10:44 AM SL Time
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Telecom Taxes -
Sri Lanka to tax international calls, new telecom fee
Nov 23, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has imposed new taxes on telecommunication including a 20 percent tax removing some of the existing ones, a regulatory license fee equal to 2.0 percent of revenues and has also imposed a new tax on international calls.
The government removed valued added tax from telecoms and made it an exempt industry, further complicating the regime.
Exempt industries cannot claim back VAT, but the budget speech said imports of high tech telecom equipment will not be charged VAT.
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Child Sexual Exploitation - A Married Dog was Caught - PRIDE gone.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010 - 7:20 AM SL Time
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Cheryl Perera began speaking about the horrors of child sexual exploitation and sexual tourism in high school at the age of 16, after reading about it for a school project. Soon after, she traveled to Sri Lanka, where she went undercover as a decoy in a sting to nab a pedophile. There, she was able to talk to the children themselves, hear their stories. When she asked them how she could help, they responded.
The problem of child sexual exploitation is world-wide, and if young people around the globe, working with the model Cheryl created with OneChild, get involved in working to end child sex trafficking and tourism, they can make a difference.
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Sri Lankan System Is So Weak, Incapable of Jailing White-Coller Thieves. How Come ?
Thursday, 25 November 2010 - 12:42 AM SL Time
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SC suspends corruption case against ex-GM Railways
November 23, 2010, 9:19 pm
by Chitra Weerarathne
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an interim order, suspending, until further notice, the proceedings at the Chief Magistrate`s Court, Colombo, against R.P. Wijesekera, retired General Manager, Railways.
The Commission to Investigate Bribery and Corruption had filed an application against Wijesekera, alleging corruption. The petitioner, Wijesekera, recently, filed a Writ Application in the Supreme Court, seeking to review the decision of the Commission, which he said was arbitrary.
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Ireland - Very Good Example for Sri Lanka
Thursday, 25 November 2010 - 11:53 PM SL Time
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Since mid 1980s Ireland was the Singapore in the European Union. People of IReland were very happy country was developing fast. Lot of foreign firms cames and provided much needed employment.
Some how, Ireland is in big Trouble. Their much fought SOVEREIGNity is a question mark. Givernment is trying to increase personal Incime Taxes and is trying to slash the public employment by 20% to cutdown the expenses.
IMF and european Union is in the Country to provide $ or Euro 115 Billion Loan pull out the Banks that is going down a slope.
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Hindians and Tamil Mixed Sinhalas Talk about Political Solutions to Tamils. TN Tamils Rape and Kill SL Tamils
Friday, 26 November 2010 - 2:52 PM SL Time
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Lankan Tamil woman petitions over rape
A Sri Lankan Tamil woman has filed a petition in the Madras High Court, alleging official apathy over a complaint that three Tamil Nadu policemen had raped her daughter and her.
The woman Padmawathi has cited the internal affairs secretary, the police director general and the head of state intelligence as respondents, according to Indian media.
The three policemen had allegedly come to a refugee camp where the two had been staying on March 07 last year.
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MP Wijedasa Rajapakse Wants TO Score From General Fonseka`s Mayhem.Pardening Killers Vs Overlooking Tender Procedure
Friday, 26 November 2010 - 11:16 PM SL Time
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Those seeking political mileage want SF behind bars Wijedasa
November 25, 2010, 12:00 pm
UNP MP Wijedasa Rajapakshe yesterday said that former Army Commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka had an opportunity to settle his dispute with the Rajapaksas even after a military tribunal sentenced him to 30 months RI for violating procurement procedures.
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They Are Ridiculing the system - Don`t you Understand, IT is a Joke -Killers are Pardoned, Rapists Don`t even Taken to Jails. Overlooking Tender Prcedure JAIL.
Saturday, 27 November 2010 - 11:58 PM SL Time
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Article 35 of the Constitution provides for the impunity of President from suit and the impunity is a shield for the ruler not for his/her acts, Counsel Romesh de Silva PC appearing for the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka in his Writ applicationchallenging the 2nd Court Martial yesterday contended before the Court of Appeal.
The Writ application of former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka challenging his conviction and sentence by the 2nd Court Martial came up before the Bench comprising Justices Eric Basnayake and Upaly Abeyrathne
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LTTE to intensify struggle for self-determination if reasonable political solution is not offered soon - Our people have lost patience, hope and reached the brink of utter frustration. They are not prepared to be tolerant any longer.
Sunday, 28 November 2010 - 3:02 PM SL Time
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[TamilNet, Sunday, 27 November 2005, 12:04 GMT]
The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in his annual Heroes` Day statement made an urgent appeal to the new Sri Lanka Government of Mr Mahinda Rajapakse to offer a reasonable political solution to the ethnic conflict without further delay. The Tamil Tiger leader cautioned the government that his liberation organisation would intensify the struggle for self-determination and political independence if the new regime adopts a hard-line position and fails to resolve the problems of his people.
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Both Sri Lanka and Singapore Are Ruled By Families. Other Than that...
Monday, 29 November 2010 - 5:53 AM SL Time
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LACK OF INVESTMENT
In fact, in the budget speech, the President says, we need to reformulate our strategies and the institutional mechanism to improve our investment climate. In the new global order of the 21stCentaury where both the investors and the consumers they cater to, have become more politically conscious and more politically correct, improving our investment climate does not only mean economic incentives or a skilled labor force. The investment climate of a country is today determined by the political climate there democracy, human rights and the rule of law been the key indicators of a country`s suitability and the perceived level of corruption in the country.
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The newly appointed Deputy Minister Abdul Cader who was charged for misappropriation of Samurdhi funds was discharged by the Colombo High Courts on Monday. - SRI LANKAN Way of ERADICATING CORRUPTION
Tuesday, 30 November 2010 - 12:59 AM SL Time
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The courts was informed that the Attorney Generals department was unable to proceed in the case as some important documents had been misplaced and a key witness was out of the country.
The Sunday Timesonline earlier reported that it was under consideration to release a newly appointed Deputy Minister.
The release came less than a week after Cader crossed over from the UNP and was named as a Deputy Minister in the UPFA government.
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