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	Sunday 11th April 1999   Vol. 1 No. 97

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Five new Chinese gunboats to be deployed shortly SLN takes delivery of British hovercraft The Sri Lanka Navy [SLN] last week took delivery of a British built hovercraft as officials said that armed forces will seek more British armaments as the United Kingdom's policy on arms exports no longer bars arms sales to Sri Lanka. An undisclosed number of British personnel who were here to conduct tests on the hovercraft left Colombo last week after completing their work, an authoritative security official said.

With the provincial elections over, it's time to prepare for the forthcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Pavements are over-crowded and sales are brisk as people throng to buy those traditional 'avurudhu' gifts for their near and dear ones.- (Pix by Nimal Dayaratne)

• President meets her chief ministerial team
• Srimani back in cabinet?
• India slams door on her people here
• LTTE to declare UDI?
• Business leaders discuss kidnapping
• Illegal manufacture of fire crackers reaches explosive proportions
• Bail for Bank Union Sec on contempt charge
• Killer elephant goes berserk at Yala
• Registration of Persons Department official says
  Sri Lankans not required to get NICs under present laws
• New Year Customs and auspicious times
• CMC conducts course for food sellers
• Sri Lanka will not condone Human Rights abuses - Lankan envoy
• Medical Association on private medical colleges says
  Guarantee of quality education is of paramount importance
• PS member's house set ablaze
• Company Director's kidnapping
  Mother and son arrested with ransom money
• Public transport for New Year period

• April: The uneasy calm before the storm

• People and Events
  A regime's cruelty to a sorrowing wife
• Vidane's daughter - a novel
• Gilding the Lily - woman's most popular pastime
• Step in to arrest this moral decay
• Going Bananas Growing Bananas
  'Are our scientists going bananas growing bananas at Bundala?'
• No threat to jumbos
• Swiss national to enters the Sangha
• An appreciation
  "Rhythm of the night"
• Kitchens and cars don't mix
• Book Review
  'Journey to the source of the nile'
• A vision for an integrated development of the built environment for the 21st century-Sri Lanka
• Letters
  

• L E G A L W A T C H
  Pulling back from the brink
• The week that was
  Love knock by voters on PA govt: Bennet Cooray
• NATO attacks provoke a Humanitarian Disaster
• Books in Sinhala (and Tamil) on Social Science

• Marriage in decline as couples wait to tie knot
• Basket weaving in Kalutara attracts tourists
• A Frame in Time
  When teachers quarrel...
• Style
  Be Cool
• High Fashion
  Elegant ambience in the city jungle
• Indian beautician in Sri Lanka

• Domestic cricket comes to a grinding halt
• C O M M E N T
  Another blow to cricket
• Weerakoon in double upset at Bandarawela Tennis Tourney
• Emirates invites Lankans to greet their team in novel Good Luck Book
• Top sportsman Marambe promoted Major General
• Such happenings confuse simple minds
• 'Gsyelle' wins Upali Wijewardene Cup at Nuwara-Eliya
• No playground for sportsmen
• Hat-tricks in test cricket
• Time to cure the ills
• There were other Australians before Waugh and Warne
• Antonian junior cricketers excel

• Standard Chartered downsizes on golden handshake terms
• Agriculture lag to negate garments growth
  Export growth likely to be flat this year
• What's the ideal share portfolio?
• Balendra appointed to Bata board
• New production equipment will boost future sales - chairman
  Bata Ceylon hikes dividend despite lower 1998 profit
• The East Asian crisis and the IMF
• Development and the Cultural Crisis
• John Keells project 400,000 tourist arrivals
• Dramatic reduction in finance costs
  C.W. Mackie completes restructuring
• Growth expected to slow to 4% this year
  John Keells estimate 4.7% GDP in 1998
• A U.S. break for Tri Star
• Foreign correspondents get free cell phones from Mobitel
• Charity cap sale heads for target
• Rubber tapper training at Tebuwana

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