OTHER NEWS Lankan toddler in UK crushed by TV Four Lankans in UK get life sentence British HC builder remanded over alleged 18 m. fraud NIRJ DEVA MEP DEMANDS A “TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION” FOR ZIMBABWE AND CONDEMNS RECENT ELECTIONS AS    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend NIRJ DEVA LAUNCHES GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO PROVIDE LAPTOPS TO 100 MILLION CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: 24-04-2008 With the President of the European Council Danillo Turk President of Slovenia who is the current President of the EU Council and Dr Hans Gert Poettering President of the European Parliament, Nirj Deva Conservative MEP for the South East of England in the European Parliament launched the global campaign to provide 100 million laptops for children in developing countries. Together with Maria Martens MEP fellow EPP-ED Coordinator of the Development Committee of the European Parliament Nirj Deva demonstrated the extraordinary laptop which he said \" will change the world forever by empowering the poor children of the developing countries \" The laptop which works by solar power can be used in remote villages without access to electricity and can be connected to the world wide web through a solar powered connector which can communicate with satellites to download the internet. Each laptop he said can come preloaded with a 1000 books, an astonishing transformation of the access to education. Can you imagine a poor child without electricity empowered with the internet, 1000 books and access to the global information portals, communicating with the whole world from a remote African or Asian village which has no electricity or running piped water. Its not enough to give grants and hand outs to the poor countries of the world. \"Over the last 30 years the EU has donated over 300 billion euros AND WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED ? The number of those not attending school has gone up, those living at the margin has increased. There is an old saying that it is better to give a starving man a fishing net than fish. In today\'s world millions of poor children will only escape poverty through education. This computer is the door to a new world and a key to many children realising their full potential Deva said. Print Version | Email to friend

Lankan toddler in UK crushed by TV Sun, 20-07-2008 20:00:00 A Sri Lankan toddler in UK has died after a television apparently toppled over and fell on him. The one-year-old boy from Swansea, was named by the local Evening Post newspaper as Ghazi Riyaz Mohammed. The paper said the boy's parents have two other children and were thought to be from Sri Lanka and seeking asylum in UK. ... |FULL STORY|

Four Lankans in UK get life sentence Sat, 19-07-2008 18:00:00 Four Sri Lankan men have been sentenced to life for attempted murder in London. Armed with swords, pickaxe handles and pieces of wood, the four tried to behead a 20-year-old man in August 2006.... |FULL STORY|

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British HC builder remanded over alleged 18 m. fraud Thu, 17-07-2008 08:00:00 The Colombo District Court remanded a British constructor who built the recently opened British High Commission at Buller’s Road, Colombo for allegedly defrauding a local sub-contractor by failing to make payments of over Rs. 18 million. Colombo District Judge Sisira Ratnayake remanded Graham A. Gardner who had been arrested at his apartment at Barnes Residencies, Colombo-07 on a civil warrant. The arrest warrant had been issued following a plaint filed by Cavalier Trading Enterpris... |FULL STORY|

NIRJ DEVA MEP DEMANDS A “TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION” FOR ZIMBABWE AND CONDEMNS RECENT ELECTIONS AS Thu, 10-07-2008 20:00:00 EPP Coordinator of the European Parliament’s Development Committee, and former candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the UN; said at the European Parliament’s passing of the Urgency Resolution on Zimbabwe. Nirj Deva MEP said: “I am utterly disgusted at the continuing presence of Robert Mugabe on the international scene. He represents no-one but himself and his thieving bandit cronies in Zanu-PF. He does not represent the Zimbabwean people, who yearn to be r... |FULL STORY|

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