• A question of privilege
• 550 Lankans languish in foreign prisons
• Moves to safeguard Intellectual Property Rights in SAARC region
• HIV drugs — Glaxo clarifies
• Sri Lanka HIV victims to rise ten- fold by 2005 - UN
• UNP gearing itself for polls in NWPC
• Airlanka teams up for innovative computer reservation system
• Increase in food prices shoots COL up
• Pilgrim trek to Sri Pada begins

• Three more join protest fast
• Don’t talk to LTTE, says UMP
• Money thief caught in betting centre
• Weekly medical clinics in schools
• Packeted ganja in devale
• School girl missing
• Pigs from US to boost breeding
• Nine suspects allegedly planning to kill Dy. Defence Minister remanded
• Budget balances military, development and welfare expenditures
  - GL
• Foreign affairs of our country are not the private fiefdom of anybody, it is a national issue
  - Anura

Budget : Committee Stage — 8th Day
Votes of the Ministry of Vocational Training and Rural Industries
"When technical education was under the Ministry of Higher Education there was a positive difference"

Votes of the Ministry of Science and Technology
"It is important to train people in information technology"

• LTTE in South Africa
• People and privatisation
• Indian Tamils and the Kandyan peasantry
• Environment
  The Menace of Environmental Pollution
• City as a Social Space
  Social aspects of the emerging urban landscape in Colombo

• The illusion of peace
• Cat’s Eye
  Give peace a chance!
• The warning against ‘Hardness of Heart’
• Perspective
  The PA’s newest ‘Paappakaraya’s

• Morning Spice by Ginger
  Economic struggle to go through the next year
• Wanted greater transparency
  Legitimise right to rescrutinise university answer scripts
• A reply to Dr. Kariyawasam
  Educating educators
• Salary increase for parliamentarians

• Quota mismanagement — President should act before garment industry is ruined
• The Mayor’s Prison
• Politicians and traffic rules
• A political joke?
• Ombudsman
  Paddy fields as garbage dumps at Homagama