The King????

Sri Lankan way of financial managment

A beggar to another beggar: I had a grand dinner at Taj yesterday.
How? The other beggar asked.
First beggar: Some one gave me a Rs 100/- note yesterday.
I went to Taj and ordered dinner worth Rs 1,000/-, and enjoyed the dinner.
When the bill came, I said, I had no money.
The Taj manager called the police man, and handed me over to him.
I gave the Rs 100/- note to the police fellow as a bribe, and he set me free.
A wonderful example of Sri Lankan financial management indeed!!

Sri Lanka war crimes panel gets lost in translation

A key witness at the commission set up to examine the final phase of Sri Lanka's civil war has complained his words were not properly translated.

Douglas Devananda, a cabinet minister and ex-Tamil militant, gave a three-hour testimony in the Tamil language.

But he stopped several times to dispute English translations by an interpreter, who looked tired and stressed.

The panel is investigating war crimes claims at the end of the long war, which the Tamil Tiger rebels lost year.

Mr Devananda, who is the minister in charge of refugee resettlement, also overlooked several requests from the panel's chairman that he shorten or paraphrase his speech, which he read out.

At times the translation was virtually on a word-by-word basis.

Microphone issues

Friday's procedural problems were the commission's first serious ones, although at earlier sessions some witnesses have failed to speak fully into the microphone, and some of those present appeared unable to hear witnesses.
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