හෙජින් විනාශයට වගකිවයුත්තේ කවුද?
The British commercial high court has ruled that the Petroleum Corporation must pay Standard Chartered the 162 million dollars due under the hedging agreement, with interest. The bank went to that court rather than to an arbitration panel, probably meaning the judgment to affect the other banks party to the agreement as well.
විදේශ ආයෝජකයන්ට ඉඩම් විකිණීම හා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය
The Sunday Times has reported that the government intends to sell the 500-acre island being built in the sea off Galle Face to a Chinese investor for 700 million dollars, and that it means to remove the 100 per cent tax now charged when land is sold to foreign investors and to replace the 99-year lease with outright sale.
යුද්ධයෙන් ජයගෙන ප්‍රචාරණ යුද්ධයෙන් පරාජය වීම
The government won its war against Prabhakaran in an astonishing way. What it failed to do was to understand in advance that after that victory it would have to fight a more complicated propaganda war against the diaspora friendly to him, and that failing in that war could cost it everything the fighting had won.
පෙන්ෂන් වැඩසටහන ගැන නැවත සිතා බැලිය යුතුය
The war is over and some social and political quarrels remain unsettled, and there is no sign of an approach wise enough to settle them. The proposed pension scheme for private sector employees is one that creates needless problems: the fund is to be built from what belongs individually to each worker, and a strong feeling has arisen that it will be a loss rather than a gain.
නිදහසේ වාන් දොර ඇරීම
A fundamental change in the political system is essential to any good forward movement for the society and the country — and without overcoming the challenge Prabhakaran’s movement posed to the state, there was no possibility of making one. That challenge was itself something this corrupt political system enlarged: there was a problem before it, and this system turned it into a tangle that could not easily be settled.
අනතරු ඇඟවීමේ නලාව නාදවීම
The threat to the fish market from the extortionists was overcome by a policy of using force against them to the maximum, and for that problem the approach was right — the fish traders approved it and so did the public. The article then asks what happens when the same reflex is applied to everything else.
අන්තර්ජාතික අවුල ලිහාගැනීම
The government had a programme with a strong vision for defeating Prabhakaran’s separatist terrorism at home. It had no such vision for the international questions that would follow the victory: it failed to see them coming, and even once they had become serious it did not manage to build a programme with a strong forward vision for meeting them.
අභියෝගය ජයගැනීම
Whatever the wrongs and shortcomings within the counter-campaigns launched to defeat the terrorist war Prabhakaran led and the terrorist war Wijeweera led, had those campaigns failed and those two movements won, what could have followed was a great destruction. In that sense, Ivan writes, whatever their faults, those campaigns protected the country’s existence.
මූන්ට හෝ මූන්ගේ කමිටුවට හෝ බැණවැදීම අර්බුදයට විසඳුමක් වන්නේ නැත
If Sri Lanka fails to overcome the confusion the report of the Secretary-General’s advisory committee has created, and will go on creating, then all the great hopes the victory in the war gave the country will collapse. The government should make meeting this crisis with self-confidence the first and largest item on its political agenda.
ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ, දෙමළ අර්බුදය හා එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය
The disagreement between Sri Lanka and the United Nations over the war against the LTTE is ripening into something that will go a long way, and personal factors have influenced its growth more than they should have. The way Sri Lanka responded when the UN asked its questions of a member state was neither right nor fair: what was needed instead of anger was a calm explanation.