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India and China compete for Sri Lankan work

Chicago News.Net
Wednesday 10th March, 2010

Sri Lanka will soon build a second international airport on the south of the island, with much of the money coming from China.
Sri Lanka will soon build a second international airport on the south of the island, with much of the money coming from China.

Beijing will lend about $200 million for the airport project and also make another $100 million available to re-fit the island's ageing rail network.

The new airport will be near a sea port which is currently being developed with Chinese funds.

Both India and China have been vying for contracts in Sri Lanka following the end of the 20 year civil war, but already China is supplying more than half of all the construction and development loans for the island.
 

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Anonymous
03-11-10, 12:52 AM

China supplies Sri Lanka with infrastructure funds

Trust us! The Ministry of Agriculture as well as the paid scientists fully loaded of cash bribes are endangering the general population of the People Republic of China.

CHINA NEEDS TO SET A PRECEDENCE BY STARTING TO EXECUTE A FEW OF THESE PEOPLE FOR ENDANGERING THE GENERAL POPULATION AS WELL AS ENDANGERING NATIONAL SECURITY IN EXCHANGE FOR WEALTH.

They will test non-GMO seeds and called it GMO seeds. They will test on drugged people and claimed that they tested on organic people. They will test GMO seeds on subjects who are already drugged by the PUBLIC drinking water and the junk food to have their immune system PUT TO SLEEP MODE. Once the immune system is put to sleep, it does not respond anymore to toxic materials. When the human body is overloaded with these toxic materials, it will no longer tolerate anymore and that is when CANCER creeps in.

I as an organic person (not quite drugged yet) have been experiencing rashes for the last 9 months in China all over my body by unknowingly eating soybean oil, tomatoes, papayas, wheat, as well as meat from cows, chicken, pork, and sheep that are fed with GMO seeds and GMO food. I am trying to find non-GMO food and non-GMO meat to buy or eat in China but there is not much to be found (not surprised because the Western bankers have corrupted the watchdogs as well as the food producers). My colleague also suffered these rashes. Does anybody know where we can buy non-GMO food and non-GMO meat to eat in China? We are eating less and less because of GMO food allergy until we drop dead.

It is also time for China to start planning how to deal with GMO food imports used in feeding livestocks and humans. It is also time to shut down the factories on the process of mass producing GMO seeds and GMO food locally.

DO NOT OPEN THE PANDORA BOX! THE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES ARE IRREVERSIBLE!

Syed Suhail Khalid
03-11-10, 01:13 AM

China has done nothing wrong by investing in Srilanka.

Oye anonymous(annoying mouse),I asked you to have your brain checked by a psychiatrist.China,India and Russia are trying their best to improve the lot of countries like Srilanka.China may invest 200 million dollars,India may invest the same amount and Russia may invest 500 million dollars in SriLanka,but they will never dictate it.RCI will only try to improve countries like Srilanka just as good financially well off brothers support one of their brothers when he is in difficulty.It definitely a lot better than sending troops and dropping bombs and killing people.

And we all love chinese food.It is healthy and tasty.Annoying mouse,you don’t enjoy it because your stomach has gone bonkers just like your brain.

Mawatha Silva
03-11-10, 02:04 AM

Child slave labor in Sri Lanka

Child slave labor in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Army officials are forcing Hindu children from the the north and east of Sri Lanka to be their free domestic servants in their houses.

The concerned citizens in Colombo, Sri Lanka said they witnessed ‘many of them being enslaved in Sinhalese army officials houses’ and went on to confirm further that ‘the abuse is widespread among Sri Lanka Army high ranking officials’.

The source also said that ‘a young Tamil girl enslaved by an army official in Colombo had some injuries to her hands and legs’.

Could this was due to routine beatings in the Sri Lankan Army official, the owner of the house ?

The young Tamil girls, not just used for slave labor but also for sexual abuse too ?

Rohitha
03-11-10, 04:31 AM

what is the problem now Sri Lanka doing massive deals with China?

The relationship between China and Sri Lanka has been good since centuries ago and there were no reported problems at all. I believe China is true and honest friend as well as a distance relative of Sri Lanka.

There are cultural and religious similarities between two countries and have been exchanging these values since centuries ago together with the long lasting trade.

There are also small minority of Chinese community living in Sri Lanka and there are well integrated to the Sri Lankan society especially to Sri Lankan culture as well as they take Singhalese as a there first language.

So what is the problem now Sri Lanka doing massive deals with China?

I wish them good Luck!

Anonymous
03-11-10, 04:38 AM

Child slave labor in Sri Lanka

Mawatha Silva is definately an ex LTTE trying to tarnish the image of our noble Srilankan army

Jason EZ
03-11-10, 08:02 AM

China assisting a rouge state is very troubling to the decent world

Even though, there were many strong evidence to establish that numerous serious violations of international law, both humanitarian law and human rights law, were committed by Sri Lankan forces during the military operations in northern Sri Lanka China and likeminded governments of the world propping a rouge state like Sri Lanka is troubling to the decent humane modern world.

China, knew well that, on the objectives and strategy of Sri Lanka’s military operation, Sri Lanka’s military planners deliberately followed a doctrine which involved the application of disproportionate force and the causing of great damage and destruction to civilian lives infrastructure, and suffering to civilian populations. More than 40,000 civilians were slaughtered and over 50,000 maimed including tens of thousands of children in the final days of the war (According to U.N. official and Satellite imagery from the government declared “no fire zone”

China assisting the state Sri Lanka without considering its humanitarian and human rights standard very troubling and it may lead to other states to suppress the legitimate voices for equality brutally knowing there are some powerful countries will be on the oppressors sides for their personal gains.

Baji
03-11-10, 10:08 AM

China

I think educated people know better?
Who can stop this bad deals ? no point talking!!

gondola
03-11-10, 11:32 AM

lesson

India is leaking its own ass! Zombie

Raju bhaiya
03-11-10, 12:15 PM

Sri lanka

While Sri lanka is on receiving end everyone is welcome to give CHINA, PAKISTAN or INDIA and other countries but it wil only develop south Lanka what about North ? It is time to think for the world to help IDP not Ports or Airports

Siri from NY, USA
03-11-10, 05:34 PM

Selective Reporting or misreporting.

Some of the comments above do not need answering to as the intentions of the writer are quite clear to any well informed person.
In the USA that speaks of impartial journalism, it is sad to say how they downplay what they want to hide from the general readership and highlight what they want the public to believe. This is a sad story as most of the general public are very ignorant about the rest of the world and it helps the government to carry out atrocities like the war in Iraq. Most people still think that Iraq was responsible for the attaacks on 9/11. Regarding Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s win in the Presidential election very little was said. When Mr. Ranasinghe Premadasa won the Presidency there was a long story with a heading that a Washington was the President in Sri Lanka. This was a reference to his caste, and they were trying to ridicule him. Any news item about India or China or any other developing country would be portrayed as news items from the poorest levels of society to show that these countries are far behind America in development. The Moon landing was shown off as a big event. For all intents and puposes it may have taken place in Hollywood or the Arizona Desert. If man actually went to the Moon forty years ago, why have we never followed up on it since then. Now they are talking about going to the Moon again in ten years. Is it that we have forgotten how we did it or are they trying to actually go there because now China is planning to send a man to the Moon. This Misreporting achieved it’s purpose. The Soviets gave up on the space race thinking that they were beaten to it by America. Most American news is not factual reporting, but ineresting Keywords and Headlines to sell newspapers. This has not served America well as China, India, Brazil, Iran and a host of other developing countries was able to get ahead without the average American citizen being aware of what was taking place in the world. Now we find that we have to compete with all these other countries on an even footing and are failing. This is one cause for the economic downturn in America and the West. They acted like horses with blinkers and now are looking around like Alice in Wonderland.

Valks
03-11-10, 08:28 PM

gmo food

Anonymous, Amena’s Sea Minerals is the answer to protect yourself and also give the nutrition you need on a daily basis, see if you can buy it in China, or go online, I live in oz and personally know this man and use his products

Anonymous
03-12-10, 02:26 AM

Syed Suhail Khalid IS AN IMPOSTOR!

Anonymous
03-12-10, 02:30 AM

Organic food will be big business in China but hopefully it will be available and affordable for the POOR as well.

rajapapksa
04-03-10, 03:26 PM

politics

sri lanka will be wonder of asia coming few years infact in the world.china and india fighting for invest.


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