23rd May 1999

• Foreign sex trade in city exposed 
• Coal power confusion worse confounded 
• LTTE imposes no-work days 
• Indictments on 350 officers 
• Diplomat's wife in religious row 

• "Please sir, can I have some more?"
• New price index to replace consumer indices
• Unit trusts open to foreigners 
• Business briefs 
• CDC dumps Vanik, Nahil Wijesuriya picks it up 
• Zurich comes here 
• Putting the economy on correct path
• Jardine Fleming says SL stocks cheap but where is the market going? 
• Low growns up, high growns margin widens
• Ad campaign to boost unit trusts 
• Record trading nets 32m 
• Private banking to keep things hush hush
• Mind your Business By Business Bug
• Communication
• UML progress after privatisation 
• Lanka Internet ushers new era 
• John Keells tops the list 
• Lankan stones to Italy 
• Chamber signs MOU with Singapore 
• Hayleys sell over 6,000 TV sets 
• MMBL will advise US Teledesic 
• Appointments 
• YA TV targets South Africa 
• Government fiscal operations under NDB microscope 
• Sluggish tourism hampers real estate growth
• CEB plans for energy efficiency 
• Browns agent for Wilson generators
• Targets for Japan trade talks 

• No Madhu festival if Army stays on
• 'Stop the bombing'
• Aged cable loops cripple Telecom
• Residents to dump council in garbage
• Too many no balls on TV
• Clarification
• Deadly blow for cancer patients
• Salaka partner dies in accident
• Arms withdrawn after clashes
• 200 monks on peace mission to north
• Tigers burn trial bus
• Rickety vehicles off the roads

• Worcester booster for Sri Lanka
• Isipatana topple Royal with last minute try 
• Rover Pinpoints 
• Stump Vision 
• Gihan, Natasha swimming champs 
• We've forgotten how to survive — Arjuna
• Sri Lanka improve in fielding but fail with bat
• Nuzry Khalid-Black Belt in Fei Quan Do 
• What ails Rugby in Sri Lanka? 
• Briefly 
• Outstation talent unearthed in Colombo
• Ton by Milinda 
• Amateurish batting 
• Zulfikar a lad with guts and determination

• The Editorial - The Peace lobby
• The Political Column - Peace talks after southern polls
• Situation Report - Lanka lures Thais for Tiger hunt
• The Fifth Column - To keep heights reached is difficult
• Rajpal Abeynayake's Column - One flew over the Northampton groundstle
• Commentary - Israel and new Middle East
• The Jungle Telegraph - *Tiger move in Jaffna*PLOT, TELO clash *Manhunt*Who's telling whom?
• The Special Assignment - *Mafia killing golden beaches*Big tour operators to pull out



• Trampled! 
• A reflection of life and mixed bag from Gunasenas - Kala Korner By Dee Cee 
• Into the other world of that never ending love story 
• He says so much in a few words 
• To hear little tongues 
• Healing wounds 
• Pulling down, putting up - Point of view 
• The legacy of a League 
• Cobra: the magic stone 
• Queen of the matches - A view from the hills
• Heartfelt need 
• Confusion and spirit of a time - Book Review
• Peoples and Events 
• Letters to the editor
  
  
• Cruelly Intending To Payback The Forces Of Nature - The Culture Vulture
• When East meets West 
• Hi-tech care at Vet Hospital 
• Junior Times