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Sri Lanka applauds new asylum policy
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 - 7:37 AM SL Time
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JULIA Gillard`s warning that more Sri Lankan refugee claims will fail has been applauded by the Sri Lankan government.
Yesterday, Ms Gillard announced the government would lift the three-month freeze on new Sri Lankan asylum claims and immediately resume the processing of 184 detained Sri Lankan boatpeople.
`I have a message for people in Sri Lanka who might be considering attempting the journey to Australia,` the Prime Minister said.
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A timeline of Murali`s milestones
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 - 10:22 AM SL Time
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August 28, 1992
A fox is seen
At the age of 20, he makes his debut against Australia at the Khettarama Stadium, and takes 3 for 141. Craig McDermott is his first wicket.
August 28, 1993
First of many
Takes 5 for 104 in South Africa`s first innings in Moratuwa, his first five-wicket haul in Tests. His wickets include Kepler Wessels, Hansie Cronje and Jonty Rhodes.
March 11-15, 1995
Match-winner at work
Takes 5 for 64 in the second innings against of the Napier Test, and spins Sri Lanka to a 241-run win. It is their first overseas victory, and they eventually win the two-Test series 1-0.
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Bobbi Eden, Vicky Vette, Miss Hybrid promise World Cup Dutch treat for Twitter followers
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 - 12:21 PM SL Time
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- Porn star trio promise sex if Dutch win
- Larissa Riquelme honours nude pledge
- Diego Maradona keeps his clothes on
THE Dutch football team`s World Cup bid is rapidly gaining support in the Twitterverse, thanks to an unconventional offer from the Netherlands` `No 1 pornstar`.
Bobbi Eden, the star of more than 100 adult films, has promised to relieve all her Twitter followers of any pent-up sexual tension if the Netherlands win the World Cup on Monday morning (AEST).
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Are the LTTE leaders that `apparently` tried to surrender with white flags, TRAITORS??
Thursday, 8 July 2010 - 7:21 AM SL Time
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What`s the difference between Karuna and these supposed LTTE leaders who tried to surrender during the final stages of the war?
If Karuna is a traitor, then the likes of P. Nadesan, Pulidevan and Ramesh all must be traitors as well!
Karuna actually did more for the LTTE than these others combined, and when he surrendered, he wanted to continue to lead his people, hence joined the democratic path... The LTTE leaders on the other hand, hung around while thousands of LTTE cadres were getting killed protecting them, and then at the last bit of the war, `Supposedly` tried to surrender to save their own lives...
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Despite his action, Murali earned the respect of his rivals, says Clarke
Thursday, 8 July 2010 - 10:33 AM SL Time
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BIRMINGHAM: Test vice-captain Michael Clarke says batsmen all over the world will rejoice in the news that rubbery-wristed spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is calling it quits. The 38-year-old Sri Lankan will retire from Tests after the home series opener against India in Galle starting on July 18.
``I think a lot of batters around the world will be very happy they don`t have to face him any more,`` Clarke said.
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Make UDRS mandatory - Kumar Sangakkara
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 - 9:43 AM SL Time
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Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka captain, has asked the ICC to step in and make the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) mandatory for all Test series, following India`s refusal to use it for the upcoming series. Sangakkara also said the ICC should perhaps pay for the technology needed to implement the system successfully, because it is something the ICC wants to introduce and the broadcasters have usually paid exorbitant monies for their rights and might not be able to afford extra costs for sophisticated tools such as Hot Spot.
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ACT gov. swoops on indian slums in Canberra
Friday, 16 July 2010 - 8:45 AM SL Time
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A Canberra landlord is accused of cramming up to 86 Indian migrants into four rat-infested houses in the northern suburbs and authorities fear he may be running more slum boarding houses in the city.
The ACT Government alleges the tenants of the boarding houses, all Indian migrants including a baby less than 12 months old, were each being charged up to $150 a week in rent plus a $1000 monthly ``utilities charge`` for access to running water, a single toilet and electricity. The tenants were being moved to emergency shelter last night after the houses were condemned as not fit for human habitation.
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Prabhakharan`s planned escape route out of Vanni, could have potentially worked
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 - 7:21 AM SL Time
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Prabhakharan`s much publicized escape route out of the besieged Vanni region during the height of conflict last year, could have technically worked!
The photo attached is of a screaming and terrified donkey being air-lifted over a beach in Russia! The stunt took place for advertising purposes, but the same air-lift process was suggested by tamil intellects , to get the besieged Prabhakharan out of Vanni, during the final stages of the war... And it could have work technically, as this poor donkey has proven
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Baddaginnie, Victoria - a small town in Australia, named by Sri Lankans
Thursday, 22 July 2010 - 11:37 AM SL Time
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Baddaginnie is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Albury-Wodonga railway line, in the Rural City of Benalla, 12 kilometres south-west of Benalla itself on the old Hume Highway. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of Baddaginnie Creek. At the 2006 census, Baddaginnie and the surrounding area had a population of 460.[1]
The town was surveyed in 1857, named after the nearby Baddaginnie Creek, but settlement was slow, a Post Office finally opening on 16 September 1879 [2]
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Sir Don Bradman at P Sara Oval - the only Asian ground that he played at...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 - 10:26 AM SL Time
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P Sara Oval, the venue for the third Test of this series, is the only ground in Asia where Don Bradman played. He did so on a 20-yard pitch. In Brightly Fades the Don, Jack Fingleton writes: It is possible one of her male assistants (the round had a lady curator) measured the pitch and not she. The Australian batsmen found the going rather tough in the morning. It was hard to get the ball away, and it was Ian Johnson who discovered largely why.
He had his doubts about the pitch, measured it and found it was only twenty yards. From that point onwards the Australians bowled from two yards behind the crease and everybody was happy.
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Sri Lankan stocks hit record high
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 - 11:43 AM SL Time
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka`s stock exchange hit a record high Tuesday as the economy benefits from the end last year to nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed.
The All Share Price Index (ASI) crossed the key 5,000 mark to record a near 50 percent gain so far this year, official figures showed. The ASI ended the day at 5,008.18, up 1.31 percent from Monday and 47.92 percent since the start of the year, Colombo Stock Exchange figures showed.
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Can you spot Paul Yarrow? He`s the tubby man who`s the bane of TV reporters
Friday, 30 July 2010 - 7:57 AM SL Time
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PAUL Yarrow`s face and physique are more suited to radio - but that has not stopped him in his relentless pursuit of a glittering TV career.
The stocky balding man has so far appeared on British TV more than 100 times this year, in news reports for BBC1, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and Al Jazeera. The trouble is none of the channels wanted him there, the Daily Mail reports.
Dressed in his wrinkled sweater, Mr Yarrow stands - or wanders - wordlessly behind the reporters with a quizzical look on his face.
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