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All eyes were on Davos, the picturesque Swiss town that overlooks the snow-capped Alps where at this time of the year, the world’s business hot shots try to solve the global economic problems in four days. Sri Lanka was represented by the Prime Minister no less and the big guns in the political and commercial [...]
Stomach more sensitive than the head
If the public were to run away with the thought that nothing has really changed since January 9 last year given the grand celebrations to mark the nearly new Government’s first anniversary; they could perhaps be excused. The tamasha was subdued and less in intensity to the grandeur and extravagance of the past aimed at puffing [...]
Welcome to a friend indeed
The Prime Minister of Pakistan arrives in Sri Lanka tomorrow and here is a visitor for whom rolling out the red carpet is richly justified. For Pakistan has been a sincere friend since its creation as a sovereign state in 1947 and Sri Lanka’s Independence a year later. Pakistan’s unwavering support, militarily and diplomatically, in [...]