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Sri Lanka gets ‘first ever eBook store’

This Jan. 26, 2012 photo, shows a webpage on Amazon.com featuring Kindle e-book readers on a computer screen in Miami. <File Photo: AP/Newsis> COLOMBO (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka has opened its first eBook store BookHUB providing a different reading experience to book lovers, an official statement said here on Tuesday.…

Society

Sri Lanka to shut down some embassies in Europe

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa listens to a question during a meeting with foreign correspondents in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. <Photo DB=AP/Newsis> COLOMBO (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government has decided to shut down some of its embassies in Europe, the Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry said on…

Proactive measures needed against disasters

In the closing months of 2011, flash floods caused by the wayward Pacific typhoon, Washi, swept some 1,500 people to their deaths overnight and left at least 2,000 missing in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Typhoons strike Mindanao very rarely, every 40 years or so. But when it hit…

West Asia