ONE: TANIA VAN HEER in WEB ARCHIVE ……………………. https://web.archive.org/web/20091027100103/http://geocities.com/geetee/bios/vanheer.html
Akalanka Peiris: A Promising Sri Lankan Swimmer
Item in the DAILY MIRROR, October 2025
Akalanka Peiris, a Sri Lankan domiciled down under triumphed at the Australian National Short Course Swimming Championships 2025 and is likely to be the next big story of swimming in the island. In the process Peiris broke the Sri Lankan national record in the 100m Individual Medley with a time of 55.89 seconds, surpassing the previous record of 56.49 seconds.
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Labuan –A ‘Goldmine’ to hideaway Foreign Assets
Lanka-e-News Investigations Desk – In collaboration with the International Fraud Detection Network (IFDN) … 6 Oct 2025 …… with this title: “The Secret Millions: 12,000 Undeclared Overseas Accounts Expose Sri Lanka’s Hidden Corruption Web.
When investigators in Singapore first stumbled upon a string of suspicious bank accounts linked to a former Sri Lankan diplomat , they never imagined it would unravel into one of the largest offshore asset scandals in the island’s history. 
But that single lead — a dormant account belonging to a former High Commissioner in Malaysia turn into Governor— has now exploded into a dossier containing the names of over 12,000 Sri Lankan citizens holding undeclared bank accounts across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives, and the offshore haven of Labuan (Malaysia).The accounts, many of them active, collectively hold an estimated USD 2 billion, according to confidential reports shared exclusively with Lanka-e-News by international fraud investigators.
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Addressing the British Colonial Order in India & Ceylon in 1937
Thomas Webb Roberts on The Problems of Public Life in India and Ceylon, a pamphlet written after he retired from the Ceylon Civil Service and pubd by The Times of Ceylon in 1937.
TW Roberts was a talented Barbadian who fared well at the elite Harrison College and then entered Oxford University and thereafter gained eentry into the British Colonial Service. Sent to Ceylon (with his English wife), his official duties were largely in the judicial field — in line with the colour-conscious Colonial Service’s policy of reserving the GA and AGA posts for white officers and the shunting of the browns (whether of Indian, Sri Lankan or West Indian lineage) into the world of judicial administration.
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A History of the Palestinian-Israel Arena
Compiled by Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF [retd] ….. without its prolific pictroial illustrations [which may be inserted piecemeal as time passes]
ISRAEL … 1876 BC-2025 : Part I ….. A modern day nation-state with a 3,900 years history and which is one of the world’s most technologically advanced and developed countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#, https://www.perplexity.ai, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus and Google Images
Flag and Emblem of Israel
Introduction: Israel, officially the State of Israel, is one of the most technologically advanced and developed countries globally and spends proportionally more on research and development than any other country in the world. It shares borders with Lebanon Syria, Jordan and Egypt and occupies the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip the Syrian Golan Heights. Part of the Dead Sea lies along its border with Jordan. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is its largest urban area and economic centre.
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Cruise Missiles: The Evolution of These Deadly Strike Weapons
Group Captain Kumar Kirinde, whose chosen title is “Advent of the Cruise Missile” … conveying an article replete with photographic illustrations — which are mostly missing here.
From an idea of an “aerial torpedo” shown in a 1909 film to the modern-day cruise missiles. The idea of an “aerial torpedo” was shown in the 1909 British silent film The Airship Destroyer in which flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.
In 1916, the American aviator Lawrence Sperry built and patented an “aerial torpedo”, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, a small biplane carrying a TNT charge, a Sperry autopilot and barometric altitude control.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile and Google Imagesu
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For Ceylon Tea in Britain: Tara De Zoysa & the “Ceylon Tea Market”
ITEM in The Island, 29 September 2025 WITH THIS TITLE “Carrying a legacy forward: Lara De Zoysa launches Ceylon Tea Market in UK”
Launched by Lara De Zoysa, daughter of the late Michael De Zoysa, the platform brings together heritage brands, artisanal producers, tea tourism, learning, and social impact under one umbrella.
Carrying forward the legacy of her late father, Michael De Zoysa — one of the most respected figures in the Sri Lankan tea industry — Lara De Zoysa has launched Ceylon Tea Market, a pioneering multi-vendor platform dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and promoting the heritage of Pure Ceylon Tea.
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A Critique of AKD’s Speech at the United Nations
ASIA PROGRESS FORUM in The Island, 5 October 2025
President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka’s recent speech at the UN General Assembly, while outwardly progressive in tone, reveals a troubling lack of structural analysis. His framing of global crises, identifying poverty, narcotics, corruption, war, and technological ethics, leans heavily on moral condemnation and humanitarian concern, but avoids any deeper systemic critique……
President Dissanayake with UNSG António Guterres at the United Nations Headquarters, New York President Dissanayake with UNSG António Guterres at the United Nations Headquarters, New York
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Kyle Joustra’s Genealogical Treasure Trove on Ceylonese & Sri Lankans
Michael Roberts
KYLE JOUSTRA lives in Melbourne and has assiduously pursued his accumulation of data on Sri Lankan lineages for decades. I sought information from him when subject to a vicious personal attack recently. It strikes me that few Sri Lankans are aware of Kyle’s store of information. The initial clarification of his genealogical researches set out below by Kyle is a belated introduction to his capacities and the ‘treasures’ he can root out.
MEMO FROM KYLE JOUSTRA, 14 September 2025
There are those who carry on about my work that I am not a professional genealogist and that I should give all the information free to everyone. If I were to break this down.
