zeenews.com,  Sun Feb 25 13:33:26 EST 2007

    Beijing, Feb 25: The Chinese leadership will reassure Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse that Beijing firmly backs the island nation's fight against terrorism and efforts to maintain territorial integrity, diplomatic sources said here today.
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"Kohona said the Sri Lankan President would likely announce China's participation in building the Puttalam coal-powered power plant ....."
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Thought work already started on this. Does anyone know where we are with this project?

Gampaha wrote:

"Kohona said the Sri Lankan President would likely announce China's participation in building the Puttalam coal-powered power plant ....."
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Thought work already started on this. Does anyone know where we are with this project?

anybody knows why we need outdated method of electricity production, coal power plants, everywhere instead of buying electricity directly from india. it may be cheaper and environmental friendly....

Heard that the total contigency for the Tour is 250 odd, on a charted filight.

What ever it is more than any other country China had been a friend to SL for many years as they have not forgotton the help SL provided as they broke away from USSR commnunist camp 50 yerars ago. But any help has to be analysed as in general China men are scruplous business people and we know many incidents of chinese led commercial institues take the SL for a ride.

Further I beleve that MR should make a visit to PAK too as they are the other friend of SL as we are in direstraights against terrorism.

I hope that the big-mouth big brothe India will realize what they are missing based on TN support to Terrorism.

Eventhough Japan was a similar case like China, where JRJ was honord for his speach in UN based on buddhism, they are responsible for SL's current state of open econompy junk yard. They never gave anything sinserely. Everything had a uleteriere motive of financial gains.

I wouldn't be too sure about the Puttalam Electricity plant, with the backward Catholic priest there making a big fuss over it.

[quote=\"SLH-Saviour\"]
I hope that the big-mouth big brothe India will realize what they are missing based on TN support to Terrorism.
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India is donating a second deep sea going warship to Sri Lanka:
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=21368
Probably they are beginning to realize that the only way forward is by
supporting the Sri Lankan government. However, India is not supportive
of a military solution in Sri Lanka.

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I wouldn't be too sure about the Puttalam Electricity plant, with the backward Catholic priest there making a big fuss over it.

I guess he was more concerned about the environmental damage that could be caused by coal. I am sure "member" is not living in this area.

karu_007 wrote:

[quote=\"SLH-Saviour\"]
I hope that the big-mouth big brothe India will realize what they are missing based on TN support to Terrorism.

India is donating a second deep sea going warship to Sri Lanka:
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=21368
Probably they are beginning to realize that the only way forward is by
supporting the Sri Lankan government. However, India is not supportive
of a military solution in Sri Lanka.[/quote]

If Indian government intend to get involved in offshore oil exploration in Sri Lanka they will have to deal with sea tigers and the LTTE terrorist.Indian central government should make a serious effort to stop  the tamil tiger actvities in Tamil Nadu.

Karu_007, disposing used Naval craft's are a good idea. Even Japan uses SL as dump yard.

But if India is really sincere, at least they should have agreed for a joint parol arrangment within the two countries, if they are scared of the TN factor for a defence pact. Looks like the giant India too is facing the same syndrome like SL. The minority leads as TN is only a part of the whole of India, but they bow down to every whim as wish of theirs. I beleve India should change their main language to Tamil instead of Hindi along with the National Anthem.

There's a reported that Tigers were responsible in blowing off a dreger involved in Sethu project last year. It looks like everything is political and no wonder India is getting hammered with many terrorist attacks.

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Karu_007, disposing used Naval craft\'s are a good idea. Even Japan uses SL as dump yard.

It looked very impressive on the Tamilnet photo, but appearances can be misleading. I have to agree
with others that Sri Lanka is a dumpster for many countries. Most of the donated stuff such as government
vehicles pollute our air. This warship will probably pollute our seas than do any real fight.

SLH-Saviour wrote:

What ever it is more than any other country China had been a friend to SL for many years as they have not forgotton the help SL provided as they broke away from USSR commnunist camp 50 yerars ago. But any help has to be analysed as in general China men are scruplous business people and we know many incidents of chinese led commercial institues take the SL for a ride.

The saying in sinhala " thama hisata thama athamaya sevenalle".
Pak, China, Japan are mainly after their business interests.
At the end of the day we have to solve our own problem by ourselves.
24 years should be long enough to realise this, if our kidney still functions.

Negombo wrote:

SLH-Saviour wrote:

What ever it is more than any other country China had been a friend to SL for many years as they have not forgotton the help SL provided as they broke away from USSR commnunist camp 50 yerars ago. But any help has to be analysed as in general China men are scruplous business people and we know many incidents of chinese led commercial institues take the SL for a ride.

The saying in sinhala " thama hisata thama athamaya sevenalle".
Pak, China, Japan are mainly after their business interests.
At the end of the day we have to solve our own problem by ourselves.
24 years should be long enough to realise this, if our kidney still functions.

I also should add that, these days, we cannot expect gratitudes from any other countries. the world is runnig fast to grab opportuinies and not a single foreign country would bother welfare of lankan people. unfortunately, we are still in the old sensitive gratitude mentality. the worst thing is, we are expecting these (gratitudes) from others.

ray wrote:

Negombo wrote:

SLH-Saviour wrote:

What ever it is more than any other country China had been a friend to SL for many years as they have not forgotton the help SL provided as they broke away from USSR commnunist camp 50 yerars ago. But any help has to be analysed as in general China men are scruplous business people and we know many incidents of chinese led commercial institues take the SL for a ride.

The saying in sinhala " thama hisata thama athamaya sevenalle".
Pak, China, Japan are mainly after their business interests.
At the end of the day we have to solve our own problem by ourselves.
24 years should be long enough to realise this, if our kidney still functions.

I also should add that, these days, we cannot expect gratitudes from any other countries. the world is runnig fast to grab opportuinies and not a single foreign country would bother welfare of lankan people. unfortunately, we are still in the old sensitive gratitude mentality. the worst thing is, we are expecting these (gratitudes) from others.

It is quite possible humans in general would like receiving gratitude by looking at the headlines on Tamilnet and other SL media news.

For many people on TLA, this wouldn't matter.  

Getting sympathy depends on the relationship they develop.  The best networking Sri Lanka has developed through many nations around the world so far is through the war since we consume lot of their weapons.  Helping Sri Lanka to be peaceful is not really financially beneficial to these countries, in fact it could hurt them.  Diplomacy is the key.


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hardX wrote:

Getting sympathy depends on the relationship they develop.  The best networking Sri Lanka has developed through many nations around the world so far is through the war since we consume lot of their weapons.  Helping Sri Lanka to be peaceful is not really financially beneficial to these countries, in fact it could hurt them.  Diplomacy is the key.

True and as long as we kill eachother, our friends count their greens. so, why they want to stop counting their green?

i am wondering, if we achieve peace, what we going to do with all these weapons. we need to find another lanka to export all our weapons and say "buy one get one free".

menaka wrote:

I guess he was more concerned about the environmental damage that could be caused by coal. I am sure "member" is not living in this area.

Absolutely ! There will be huge negative environmental impact - The only positive thing that can be said of this coal plant is that it is cheaper than the alternatives but SL will pay a massive price in other ways., A good deal of China's power comes from coal., it has resulted in pollution, massive occurences of sickness and disease and irreversible ecological damage.

As it is, no one gives a damn about the environment (or anything else)  in SL