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Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka says country burdened with influx of asylum seekers and UNHCR too slow to act Aug 02, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government says recent influx of asylum seekers has burdened the country and the United Nations refugee agency has been slow to address their requirements for...

Just be the bigger man and stop replying, nothing will come of it except ruining this thread.

Guys, calm down. Let's keep this thread on topic. 73 is good for South Asia but terrible on Planet Earth. I am a bit amazed Sri Lanka is now ranked higher than Brazil, China and Thailand though.

I will be impressed when we are number one in Asia!

I think this will get cabinet approval easily, but have they done the planning yet?

$5000 in 2016 like GoSL says or in 2019 like IMF says? I guess it is not that large of a gap between the two.

Haha, we wish! People I think get confused with economic growth and global influence. Sri Lanka can be very advanced as an economy without holding powerful global influence.

@Skyline I have heard about the Colombo Monorail MRT plan before, is it finally confirmed?

Second highest in South Asia is nothing to scoff at. There are many countries in the South Asian region BD had to surpass to achieve this.

It's a rare moment anywhere in the world when a country's government underestimates a target!

Sri Lanka for Sri Lankans, don't care what shade they are or if they're blue. As long as they're not a traitor to the country.

Now this is news that we should be focusing on!

I think Sri Lanka will be fine until we hit the middle income trap. It's going to take much better research and technology and better universities to get over. In the short term I think it will remain (aside from the Maldives) the richest country in South Asia per person. Just have to be...

I don't understand, what has he done? You seem too harsh.

That is an average of $23 Billion a year, which is a drop in the bucket of India's economy.

I don't have to reconcile anything, that is just what the genetics say. No further proof is necessary, that's how genetic analysis works. They are not open for opnion and conjecture.

I find it interesting you have no counter to my point except with an ad hominem attack. Yes, I have substantiated my claims with scientific data, that is how one goes about constructing a well-reasoned argument.

Thanks, what's happening in BD?

Mega development projects launched in three districts Massive development projects have been launched in Puttalam, Kegalle and Kurunegala districts at a cost of Rs 45,000 million under the Deyata Kirula 2014, exhibition Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister and Deyata Kirula...

This study is 15 years older and doesn't use Alu Polymorphism analysis, it only uses a selection of codominant loci which is not as accurate. Genetic affinities of Sri Lankan populations. [Hum Biol. 1995] - PubMed - NCBI Linkage analysis using direct and indirect counti... [J Anim Sci. 2002] -...