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I bet most of you’ll saw the news last night. It was with Dr Silva. It was quite funny, and I would say quite embarassing.

Fair enough he behaved in the worst manner, he is a leader right? who people follow? but I was just wondering, are media stations allowed to insult them straight out ?

In one news program they called him a clown. Is that right? Yes he did act in for most unruly way but I guess he was annoyed. Maybe his son caused a lot of it, I think he was the one who based up a club, I think it was clancys and now beat up police but is his father to blame for all this ?

Yes I have heard the son goes every where with a bodyguard and some people told me at clubs they dance around him, but why is he gving his father so much problems.

It was good that he owned up to the police, but then again, with all these problems occuring with young people there is great fear but at the same time, when you are under the influence these tend to happen when you know you are invincible.

Back to the point, is the media allowed to insult, however bad a leader acts, inslut then in such a manner. I don’t think the BBC would ever say things like that, but they would quote a local station of calling a leader a clown. That’s different.

This is not good for the image of the station also. I think they should have refered to some bystander stating that he acted like a clown and not say it themselves.

well lets stay tuned to our local tv, seems like we are getting some interesting stories and in a way I’m glad they showed the video.

But one thing, stations should not have too much freedome to say their own thought, their job is only to report. The news person should have just said “someone said ………”

Jaya Weva

There are scholarships available for Sri Lankans who want to do post
graduate studies in Ireland.

Please forward this message on so that you can in turn forward it to anyone
you might know would benefit.

The National University of Ireland has recently launched an International
Scholarship Programme directed initially at students from South Africa and
Sri Lanka.

The Programme provides a number of postgraduate scholarships for
outstanding students from South Africa and Sri Lanka, who would otherwise
be unable to finance their studies in
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Selection criteria will be based on academic merit and financial need.

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What do you think of this buy ? It’s advertised all over the place, you can see banners, on the tv, hear it on the radio it’s all over.

I was told by many this will be a long term investment, maybe around 6 months to 2 years. I was told that I could make a profit of maybe around 20% of my investment.

It will not be like the IOC buy but it will be a sound investment.

Planned Dialog TeleKom IPO: 9.3% of the issued share capital , 690m shares of par value of Rs 1/=each , issue price between Rs. 8-12 on a book building basis

The Prospectus will be available 25/06/2005 onwards & Issue opens on 07/07/2005.

The Initial Public Offering of Dialog Telekom Limited consists of 712,336,293 ordinary shares of par value of Rs. 1/- each.

The offer for sale is an offering of 422,262,311 existing ordinary shares by Telekom Malaysia International Ltd. and the offer for subscription consists of an offering of 290,073,982 new ordinary shares by the company.

The share offer price will be determined through a book-building basis within a range of Rs. 8.00 and Rs. 12.00 and the issue opens July 7, 2005.

Proceeds from the Dialog share issue will be in the range of US$ 5.69 million and US$ 8.54 million. Proceeds from the offer for subscription will be used to fund future network expansion.

The shares will be allocated 25% to qualified local instituitional investors, 35% to other local investors including retailers and 40% to foreign investors.

These days when you drive around town, what do you notice on walls ? Spray painting. If we say it straight out, these guys who do this are such fools.

They spray paint meaningless statements. Do they thing what they do is cool, if so to say ? Do they think they are doing a public service ?

I was just trying to picture myself in their shoes, what’s the high you get by spray painting some rubbish on the walls or boards ? If it was graffiti art, like you see abroad then, it would be something nice to look at.

You know what the funniest part of this is, they can’t spell. They do damage to public property, they disfigure our beautiful sites, and they show off their ignorance by spelling incorrectly !!!!

Boys I think it’s time you put a stop to your ignorance and find something more constructive to work on. Instead of wasting your time, and spray painting our streets, why not join an art class or an 1st grade English class !!!

Keep our street clean,

KEEP SRI LANKA BEAUTIFUL

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