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Arugam Bay is a surf spot

Arugam Bay the Surfers paradise
November 30, 2007 – 11:47 am Arugam Bay is located in the East cost of Sri Lanka, the unspoiled beautiful beach is a must visit place. Arugam Bay is with an easy reach of the town Pottuvil and you can visit many interesting and beautiful places like Yala, Kataragama, Lahugala National […]



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A long lost article has resurfaced

Sunday Times - Sri Lanka 2005 January 9th - Plus - Page 5
Once Sri Lanka’s surf paradise,
Arugam Bay offers only rubble and mass graves after the tsunami

 
 
 

Lost to the sea
By Kavan Ratnatunga
Arugam Bay on the south-east coast of Lanka is surf paradise. Many travel there directly from the airport ignoring the country?smany other […]



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Sri Lanka a safe destination

Sri Lanka is one of the safest destinations for tourists and the security situation in the country has been exaggerated overseas by false propaganda, Chairman of the Faith Task Force, UK, Anthony Bailey said in an interview with the Daily News.
Bailey, an advisor to the British Prime Minister, was spending his honeymoon in Sri Lanka […]



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Swiss Red Cross

Swiss media highlighted mismanagement of the state run development institutions during the tsunami period in Sri Lanka
Mr.Max Seelhofer, who served as Chief Delegate of the Swiss Red Cross in Sri Lanka between 2005 says between December 2006 and April 2007, some important Swiss media reported about the mismanagement of the state run Swiss Development Agency […]



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1600 Ship Wrecks between Arugambay and Galle

Hidden Treasure

25 November:34:06

By Gayan Ratnayake

Sri Lanka a treasure trove of unexplored maritime history: archaeologists

Nov 25, 2007 (LBO) – Archaeologists working on a Dutch colonial era shipwreck in Sri Lanka’s southern Galle port say 12 more wrecks lie submerged, awaiting excavation and cataloging as historical treasure.

“There are 27 sites which contain 12 shipwrecks in the Galle […]



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Eastern Water

Rs. 600 million sanitation project in East
Nadira GUNATILLEKE
World Vision Lanka (WVL) has signed a Rs.600 million development project with the Local Government and Provincial Councils Ministry to support the implementation of the National Policy for rural water supply and sanitation sector in the Eastern Province, a WVL spokesman said.
He said that the […]



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Muslim Concerns

Sri Lanka government and Muslim ministers giving wrong signals to Muslims
By: M.I.M. Mohideen
Courtesy: The Island - October 30, 2007

Rebuilding and rehabilitation of the East
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s UPFA government, which has elaborate plans to rebuild and rehabilitate the East, has not, so far, included the civil society and elected representatives in the development process.
Sri […]



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Green Lung of Asia

The responsible world begins to take global warming serious.
And Sri Lanka is planning to point out its unique ecological position.
The island Nation, it is said, has NO Co2 emission at all.
Indeed, our green Island produces more Oxygen than its own emission of harmful gasses.
Arugam.info is informed that if this claim is proven to be correct, […]



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Arugam Bay hits the top as a ‘Best Destination’

At a packed hall of enthusiastic tourism crowds, the World Travel Market Responsible Tourism Awards Ceremony took place at Excel in Docklands London on the 14th November 2007 and Arugam Bay in Sri Lanka was awarded the ‘Highly Commended Best Destination’ award. This recognition no doubt is a tremendous boost and an instrument for the […]



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Walker Construction

By Feizal Sameth
Colombo, Nov 20 (Bernama) — A top Malaysian conglomerate involved in construction and infrastructure development which has taken a majority stake in a Sri Lankan company is stepping up work on road development and housing projects here.
MTD Capital Bhd recently bought out Kapila Heavy Equipment Plc and last week renamed the Colombo firm […]



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Ayurveda

Sri Lanka In der Heimat der Heilslehre sind Anwendungen mehr als Wellness
Blätterzählen im Ayurveda-Dickicht

Duftende Kräuter, aromatische Küche, ölige Massagen: zu Besuch im Resort einer Familie, die sich seit 200 Jahren der Lehre vom Wissen des Lebens widmet.

Von Stefan Nink

Die beiden links noch, dann bin ich mir ganz sicher, dass es […]



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Changing Lives

Mercy Corps and Oprah Whinfrey’s Angel Networt ‘reached out’ in a few heartbreaking shows to “Changing Lives” in Arugam Bay.
Recently, residents in the very Bay had a chance to compare effects and facts on the ground, in the said Bay itself with the huge US media coverage following the unprecedented ‘Wave of Donations’.
The shows were […]



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