The Lanka Academic
 
MARCH 24, 2002 EST, USA
 
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VOL. 2, NO. 352
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Balasingham arrives today for talks with Prabakaran
The Hindu (International), march 25. The arrival of the senior member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Anton Balasingham, from London on Monday has heightened expectations of an acceleration in the ongoing Norwegian-backed peace process in Sri Lanka. Mr. Balasingham is returning to hold consultations with the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabakaran, on the peace process.Reports said Erik Solheim, a key member of the Norwegian facilitating team, and the Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Jon Westborg, would be in Male, Maldivian capital, to meet Mr. Balasingham today. More...
Published: Sun Mar 24 17:43:56 EST 2002
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 Balasingham due in LTTE-held territory  - Gulf-news
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 Tamil Tiger rebels due to hold talks in Sri Lanka  - Yahoo Singapore
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 Top Tamil negotiator to pave way for talks  - CNN
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 LTTE leader arrives in the Maldives  - Times of India
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 Sri Lankan Tamil Rebel Chief Negotiator to Return Home  - Nothern Light
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Lanka govt to investigate corruption in arms deals
 Times of India, March 24. COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government will set up a committee to investigate corruption in arms acquisition deals by the nation's armed forces and police, a newspaper reported Sunday... Back to the top
Discussion on Sri Lankan soon: minister
 Gulf-News, 25 March 2002. A Sri Lankan minister yesterday said his government will meet with Emirates Group representatives shortly to discuss SriLankan airline... Back to the top
Prabhakaran to meet international media: Report
 TOI/PTI, March 24. LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran will meet the national and international media at a "gigantic" press conference before mid-April, shedding years of reclusive existence, a report quoting LTTE spokesman Anton Balasingham said here on Sunday... Back to the top
Sri Lankan Tamil party surrenders arms
 The Hindu NUS, march 25. A Sri Lankan Tamil party today handed over its weapons to the Army just in time to meet a deadline in the Government-LTTE truce accord under which all non-LTTE groups will have to disarm... Back to the top
Lanka in bid to boost ties with the UAE
 Gulf-News, 25 March 2002. Sri Lanka is working towards establishing an avoidance of double taxation treaty and an investment promotion protection treaty with the UAE... Back to the top
Sri Lanka gambles on peace to get out of recession
 Hoovers online/AFP, March 23. Sri Lanka's new government unveiled its first budget banking on a Norwegian-backed peace process to get the country out of a crippling recession... Back to the top
Lanka woos foreign investors
 The Pioneer, March 24. Sri Lanka has opened the door to foreign investors in a bid to jump-start an economy reeling from a recession and fund the re-building of areas battered by years of a dragging ethnic war... Back to the top
LTTE chief will meet press in April
 The Sunday Leader, D.B.S. Jeyaraj, March 24, 2002. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Leader Velupillai Prabakharan will meet representatives of the national and international media at a special press conference in the Northern mainland of the Wanni before Sinhala and Tamil new year in April... Back to the top
Tigers in no hurry for talks with Sri Lankan government
 The Hindustan Times, Colombo, March 23 . The LTTE has given a clear indication that it is in no hurry to enter into substantive political negotiations with the Sri Lankan Government, and has warned Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe against any attempt to speed up the peace process... Back to the top
Navy man jailed for assault
 Gulf-News, 24 March 2002. A naval rating was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour for sexually assaulting a female officer after a party inside the high security headquarters earlier this month... Back to the top
Govt., LTTE request ICRC's help to open A9
 Tamilnet, 24 March 2002. The government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have officially requested the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to assist in opening the A9 highway to Jaffna from Killinochchi... Back to the top
Canadian official to visit Sri Lanka
 Times of India, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2002 2:56:23 PM. Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region, David Kilgour, is due to arrive in Sri Lanka on Sunday on a four-day official visit, officials said... Back to the top
LTTE negotiator's arrival in Sri Lanka to hasten peace bid
 Yahoo/IANS, March 23, 2002. Norway's peace bid in Sri Lanka will gather momentum when the Tamil Tigers' Britain-based negotiator Anton Balasingham arrives in the island Monday to meet rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran... Back to the top
Congratulations, Mr Muralitharan
 Yahoo India, 24 March 2002. Going by the cricketing relations between Australia and Sri Lanka, Muttiah Muralitharan least expected an Aussie to be one of the first to congratulate him for being selected the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year... Back to the top
Sri Lankan Government Unveils Budget Plan for 2002
 Nothern Light, Friday, March 22, 2002 11:18 PM EST . COLOMBO, Mar 23, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka's United National Party government has unveiled its budget plan for this year, setting the economic growth target at 3.5 to 4 percent... Back to the top
Key Sri Lanka road may reopen soon with ADB help
 MSNBC, 23 March 2002. The highly symbolic road to Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula may be reopened in the next several weeks with the Asian Development Bank saying on Friday it was ready to fund the project... Back to the top
Where Money Talks - Colours in discrimination
 Yahoo India, 23 March 2002. If there is a global conflict, it would be because of colour, and not religion, says Sunanda K Datta Ray Listening to echoes of the racial divide at the Commonwealth summit, held under the auspices of an Australian prime minister who fears being upstaged by the likes of Pamela Hanson and in a state that notoriously ill-treated aborigines, and watching migrants from the yellow, brown and black nations laying siege to the citadels of white civilisation, it would seem that Samuel P Huntington was wrong... Back to the top
Tamil Nadu fishermen in Jaffna prison to return on March 26
 The Hindustan Times, Chennai, March 23 . Twenty-nine fishermen from Tamil Nadu, now in a Jaffna prison in Sri Lanka, would return to the State on March 26, following the island government's order on Friday to release them... Back to the top
Cricket - England's Hollioake dies in car crash
 Yahoo India, 23 March 2002. Reuters) - England all-rounder Ben Hollioake was killed in a car crash in the early hours of Saturday... Back to the top
Tamils of Indian origin back LTTE
 The Hindu (International), 23 March 2002. . Tamils of Indian origin in Sri Lanka have accepted the LTTE as the chief negotiator on their behalf in the peace talks with the Sri Lankan Government, according to the former Sri Lankan Minister, P... Back to the top
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