The Government recently approved an ADB funded project to improve electricity services and support renewable energy. The ADB will provide a loan of US$ 164 million while counterpart funds from the Government of Sri Lanka would be an equivalent of US$ 24 million , LBO reported.

Health Department sources said that it was too early to comment whether the two patients who died after being admitted to the Tangalle Hospital and the other undergoing treatment were suffering from Dengue.

Doctors were reluctant to say whether they died of Dengue or any other disease.

Dengue has claimed the lives of six while another 233 are undergoing treatment in the Southern Province hospitals of Matara and Karapitiya.

From January to April, 168 Dengue patients have been admitted to the Matara hospital and three of them had died.

The government will get a $155 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help improve and expand its electricity services.

The work will focus mainly on electric services to the poor and those in areas of conflict, the Asian Development Bank said.

South Korea has offered at least 5,400 job opportunities for Sri Lankan migrant workers in 2009.

A spokesman for the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) said that Sri Lanka received at least 4,300 jobs last year.

However, the spokesman said that the number of job opportunities available for foreigners in South Korea has reduced from 74,000 to 30,000 last year due to the global economic crisis.

The Sub Regional Workshop on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) Phase Out in Military Applications would be a stepping stone for a wider environment military network in Sri Lanka, said former Executive Secretary National Protocol Secretariat, UNEP K. Madhava Sharma.

The government will get a $155 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help improve and expand its electricity services.

The work will focus mainly on electric services to the poor and those in areas of conflict, the Asian Development Bank said.

The Chairman of the Business for Peace Alliance, Suresh D. De Mel, says there should be regional forums for government, banks and businesses to discuss and find solutions for various issues affecting rural economies.

The Power and Energy Ministry following the mandate given by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on December 8 2005 has formulated the National Energy Policy.

Safe water will be made available to a population of 58,500 in the Polonnaruwa, District by the Polonnaruwa Water Supply Scheme under the Township Infrastructure Development Project in the year 2011. The project is funded by the Asian Development Bank through the Government of Sri Lanka on the Secondary Towns and Rural Community based Water Supply and Sanitary Project.