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August 4, 2010 - A forum Discussion in the Sinhala medium on “Constitutional changes in Sri Lanka, Fundamental rights and human rights”, was held on 11th of July 2010 at Ampara Media House. 22 opinion leaders including journalists, Local political party leaders and educationists participated. . Mr. Chandrasiri, Co-ordinatior of Ampara District Human Rights Commission was the main resource [...]
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July 13, 2010 - Ten trainee journalists with the Batticaloa Media House underwent a two day digital media training programme conducted jointly by Perambara and Internews. This was the second such programme following the one in Matara. The trainees were introduced to blogging, Flickr, Twitter and typing in Tamil using Google transliterator. At the end of the session, all the participants [...]
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July 9, 2010 - Journalists and law enforcement officials met at the Matara Media house on 8 July to discuss how they should strengthen their collaboration to serve the community more effectively. The meeting took the form of a Forum Discussion on the theme, “Police, Community and Human Rights”. Under this theme DIG Neel Daluwatta, DIG, Southern [...]
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July 3, 2010 - Internews, through its Trincomalee Media House, hosted a forum discussion for local journalists on problems facing journalists in the district. Thirty-two local journalists attended, including the president of the Trincomalee District Media Society, Mr. Mangalanath. The featured speaker was the Minister of Roads, Irrigation, Housing and Rural Electrification from the Eastern Provincial Counci, Honorable [...]
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June 30, 2010 - 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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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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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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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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