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TIME FOR MUSIC. A group of drummers from the Sri Lanka Air Force band are seen here rehearsing for the forthcoming 14th Asian Athletics Championships which will take place from the 9th to 12th of this month at the Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo. Forty-three Asian countries will compete in the events. Pic. - Thilak Perera

by P. Krishnaswamy

The country passed its one hundred and sixtieth day of the ceasefire last week amid optimism within the Government and in the Tamil political leadership, together with the Monitoring Mission, that the peace process has remained on track and could now move further.
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Anti-VAT campaign : 'Do not be misled' - Choksy

Finance Minister K.N. Choksy warns the general public not be misled by the sinister campaign to belittle the efforts of the government to reduce the rising cost of living with the two-tier Value Added Tax system which came into operation on August 1.
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• GCE A/L results on website

• New Army website

• US reduces visa fees for Sri Lankans

• Union action : Chamber warns of irreparable damage

• Jak planting at Srimavo BV

• VAT: People voice varied opinion

• CDB back 'on stage' to combat rising tide of crime
  
  
• Millions of discarded school texts valid for use again
  
  
• Police clamp down on errant pedestrians
  
  
• Crack-down on pharmacies, dealers in spurious drugs
  
  
• China grants Rs. 625m. loan to Sri Lanka
  
  
• Power-packed DWLC opens in Ratnapura
  
  
• Sarvodaya youth meeting point in Jaffna
  
  
• Observer staffer Gihan passes away
  
  
• State, private banks to release Rs. 2,000m as housing loans

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