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No Peace in Sight in Human-vs-Elephant War

No Peace in Sight in Human-vs-Elephant War

Aug 04, 2010 - KONWEVA, Sri Lanka, Aug 4 (IPS) – Dusk creeps over Konweva like a black shroud slowly draping over ...


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Reporting pressure easing in the east

Reporting pressure easing in the east

Jul 05, 2010 - The reporting climate in the Eastern Province has markedly improved compared  to two years back. We have spent the ...


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Sunrise over Batti

Sunrise over Batti

Jun 28, 2010 - Batticaloa has long fascinated many. It is here that the biggest internal rebellion within the LTTE began. It ...


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විසිතුරු බව රැදි හික්කඩුවේ කොරල්පර

විසිතුරු බව රැදි හික්කඩුවේ කොරල්පර

Jun 11, 2010 - දක්ෂිණ ලංකා වෙරළ තීරය වඩාත් සුන්දර කිරීමට සමත්ව ඇත්තේ හික්කඩුව ගල් මල් තීරය බව නොරහසකි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ඇදී එන බොහොමයක් ...


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Everyone in Kilinochchi has a story

Everyone in Kilinochchi has a story

May 24, 2010 - Every house in Kilinochchi has a story to tell. Everyone has seen something so out of this world in the ...


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Entrepreneurship at the Heart of Economic Revival

Entrepreneurship at the Heart of Economic Revival

May 03, 2010 - In the past six months Sri Lanka went through the ritual of elections. As usual our politicians have outperformed each ...


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Blomendhal’s evil smog

Apr 26, 2010 - It is an evil mist that rises over Blomendhal. Every morning it hangs low, moving slowly over the small man ...


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North-East — Back To Business

North-East — Back To Business

Apr 12, 2010 - The war ended almost a year back. The north bore the brunt of the carnage. Now it is ...


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Southern reporters learn photojournalism

Internews’ media house in Matara held a three-day training for southern provincial reporters on photojournalism from 28 to 30 June. Twelve journalists and four young trainee journalists received training from Mr. Sri Lal Gomes, Pictures Editor at The Island newspaper and Divaina Daily, and Mr. Asantha Abeyrathne, Layout designer from Lakbima newspaper.
Participants received training on [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 30 දා pm 1:18 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

Broadcast radio training for students in Ampara

Internews, through its East Media House, carried out its third “Prajahanda” program on radio broadcast journalism for Ampara District Sinhala-medium schools students.  From 25 to 28 of June, 50 students from GCEOL And GCEAL received training and were divided in to two batches, which each produced two-day live radio broadcasts.
The students first received an introduction [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 29 දා pm 8:19 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

Sunrise over Batti

Batticaloa has long fascinated many. It is here that the biggest internal rebellion within the LTTE began. It is also here that the Tigers for years maintained a made-for-media showcase at Karadiyanaru with a court, a police station and what not. The man who ran the show is the same [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 28 දා am 10:32 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

Internews launches Mine Risk Education road show in Vavuniya

Internews commenced its MRE ‘Road Show’ in Vavuniya North in the Grama Niladiri divisions of Kulaivisuddan and Olumadu, and Nedunkerny North.
Adults and children from the re-settled villages of Arasankulam, Velankulam, Olumadu, Odaiveli, Nawarady, 6th mile post and sandalkulam keenly participated at the interactive sessions of the MRE Road Show (funded by UNICEF) which focuses on raising awareness of [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 25 දා pm 2:02 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

New Media training for Matara journalists

Internews, through its partner organization Perambara, organized a training in Matara on new media.  Thirteen young journalists learned web basics, email, blogging, uploading pictures to flikr, and using social networking sites like twitter.  The training was conducted using a hands on, live, and interactive training methodology.
On the first day, trainees created email accounts on Gmail, [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 22 දා pm 9:10 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

Journalists report from Batticaloa

Internews and Perambara carried out the latest in a series of journalist cross productions in the eastern Batticaloa District. From June 14 and 15, sixteen participants including 12 from Batticaloa, three from Colombo and one from Matara took part in the production that concentrated on stories from Pillumalai and Vaharai, two areas about 60 [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 16 දා pm 6:11 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

Internews facilitates discourse on challenges faced by plantation community

Problems and issues faced by the plantation community of Sri Lanka  were brought to focus and a platform laid for the victims and relevant authorities to meet and discuss ways to bring about solutions.
This was made possible through the Netrikkan (third eye) program organized by the Power Foundation in collaboration with Internews. The programme was [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 13 දා pm 3:24 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ

විසිතුරු බව රැදි හික්කඩුවේ කොරල්පර

දක්ෂිණ ලංකා වෙරළ තීරය වඩාත් සුන්දර කිරීමට සමත්ව ඇත්තේ හික්කඩුව ගල් මල් තීරය බව නොරහසකි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ඇදී එන බොහොමයක් සංචාරකයන් දක්ෂිණ ලංකාවට ආකර්ශණය වීමට හික්කඩුව කොරල් උයන එක් හේතුවක් වී තිබේ. මෙහි දුර්ලභ කොරල් දැක ගැනීමට විදේශීය සංචාරකයන් මෙන්ම දේශීය සංචාරකයන්ද මහත් උනන්දුවක් දක්වති. එහෙත් දේශීය ස්භාවික සම්පතක් වූ හික්කඩුව කොරල් උයන මේ වන [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 11 දා pm 7:16 ට
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Internews Opens Media House in Trincomalee

The dark clouds of war that cast gloom over the district of Trincomalee in the east coast of Sri Lanka over the last three decades have receded. Yet the district has to grapple with myriad post war challenges. Many a bridge has to be built to bring together the people [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2010 අවුරුද්දෙ June 2 දා pm 6:41 ට
තාම කවුරුවත් මුකුත් කියලා නෑ නොවැ