London is the most popular city in the world to work in, an international survey of more than 200,000 people found.

The study by The Boston Consulting Group and totaljobs.com found respondents from 189 countries ranked London above New York and Paris, while Britain was second behind the United States as the most appealing country for international jobseekers.

While the survey – described by its compilers as the most expansive study conducted on worker mobility – found that almost two thirds of jobseekers were willing to move abroad to work, within Britain only 44 percent of people want to move overseas for work.

The survey of a mixture of the employed, unemployed, self-employed and students included a mix of people actively looking for a job, those not actively looking but open to opportunities and workers not looking for a new job at the moment.






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Kajeepan Sarmila, the widow of Ponniah Selvanayagam Kajeepan (alias Gobi), was detained at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday, when she was about to leave for Switzerland, informed sources said.

They said that Sarmila was prevented from leaving the country although she had valid Swiss visa due to the ongoing inquiry against her late husband, who was shot dead during a clash with the army in the jungles off Padaviya in April this year. Gobi was allegedly leading attempts to revive the now defunct LTTE.

Soon after Sarmila’s brief detention at the airport, an official from the Swiss Embassy in Colombo had arrived and requested the immigration officials to release her as she was going to attend the wedding of a relative in Switzerland and had a valid visa.

However, the immigration officials had told the official that an investigation was ongoing relating to her husband and they could not allow her to proceed. Later an official from Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) had recorded a statement from her and allowed her go home pending further investigations.(Sunil Jayasiri)
The authorities have initiated an inquiry into how she obtained a visa while an inquiry was going on.

Northern Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswarn, provincial council ministers P.Iyngaranesan,T.Kurukularasa,P.Sathiyalingam,P.Deneiswaran met people in yesterday and questioned about their problems.
Mannar people requested Northern CM to visit their hometown and solve problems face by people.

Parliamentarians Selvam Adaikalanaadhan, Vino Nogadharalingam and ministry officers participated in this discussion.

CM met the Mannar bishop Rev.Fr.Irayappu Joseph and hold brief discussion on preplanned resettlement activities, problems faced by families headed by women and also on Tamil support towards UN international inquiries.

At the conclusion of the war, we establishes a Rehabilitation Center at the District General Hospital in Mannar since July 2009, predominantly but not exclusively for those injured during the Tsunami and War. Artificial limbs provided by us are made to British / International standard by a team trained and led by a retired Sri Lankan British Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and a retired senior British Prosthetist. 

People in Srilanka prefer to use an artificial foot made locally by the Meththa Foundation because of its more natural appearance and durability. We also incorporate some components fabricated in Birmingham, UK as well as in our workshop into our modular limb system, which further reduces costs and makes it possible to carry out dynamic adjustments to the limbs at the fitting stages to suit individual needs.

We do not charge anything for the very expensive and high quality components which are donated to us from the UK.  Dr. B.Panagamuwa  our Senior Consultant  gives his time freely. The Prosthetist and Technicians are paid a minimal stipend. The cost of a below knee artificial limbs is GBP 130 and that of an above knee artificial limb is GBP 137. In the UK the same limbs will cost a minimum of GBP 750 and 1500 respectively.

From July 2009 to date, we have assessed more than 3000 disabled from all over Srilanka and provided approximately 2200 artificial limbs and appliances. Majorities of our amputee people continue to remain under our care and depending on their activity levels; they need at least one major repair to their limbs every year. We use a mobile service to reach out to our people living in remote areas in SriLanka and roughly 60% of our service users are managed this way. So far we have conducted  more than 49 mobile services at Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Thunukai, Poonarin, Vellankulam, Illupaikadavai, Mathara ,Trincomalee and Kandy,  

We will be doing our next mobile service at Kilinochchi , A -9 Road at Karunai Illum on 9th to 11th of January . We would highly appreciate your support to continue this noble humanitarian project and develop it into a lasting premier service. An amputation does not shorten the life of a person and we estimate that we will need to continue this service for our existing service users for another 70-80 years. In Srilanka the diabetes is rearing its ugly head and there will be an epidemic of amputations as a result of this. We are gearing up to meet this challenges as well.

We will be opening our Second  unit at Mankulam in April, with the help of LABARA, OMI Director, Rev Fr. Jeeva Paul in UK and Srilankan National Director of OMI                                 Rev Fr. Paul Natchathiram.

For more information please contact, our Team Lead and First trustee of the Meththa Foundation –UK. Dr. B.Panagamuwa,    email; bpanagamuw@blueyonder.co.uk . 

On this occasion we thank the Ministry of Health, Colombo ,Mannar  and Mahawa, Our volunteer Board members and  Dr team at the head office in Colombo, The Government agents in Northern Province,  for their excellent cooperation to Maththa to do its humanitarian service in Srilanka.

Mr.Peter Sinclair, 

Liaison Officer                                                                                     

Meththa   Rehabilitation Foundation (Guarantee) Ltd.

Mannar   General Hospital,   Mannar.

M.No    +094 – (0) 77-2131-652

E.mail ; petsinclair@gmail.com

Residents of Periyakadai area in Mannar stage protest over opening private liquor bar at house in the village. Members of the Periyakadai women association and villagers stage protest at 10.00 am this morning.

 Protesters walked up to the Mannar Municipal council and handed over petition towards Mayor S.Ganapragasam and Deputy Mayor James Jesudhas. 

 Bishop of the Mannar Irayappu Joseph, president of the Mannar people’s association Rev.Fr.Immanuel Sebamalai and hundreds of villagers present at this protest.

The Disaster Management Centre says that with inclement weather conditions, the Mannar - Puttalam Road that was inundated, still remains under water. 

Assistant Director Pradeep Kodippili said that new disaster situations have not been reported so far. 

He added: “According to the data received by the Department of Meteorology and the data received by the Disaster Management Unit, it has been reported that many districts across the island have been experiencing heavy showers. 

So far ,no damages have been reported, however all disaster management units are on alert.”

Five people drowned after a boat overturned off the seas of Mannar this afternoon, the Navy said. The fishing boat had been used by 16 people to go sightseeing out at sea when it capsized. 

 The Navy said that 11 people were rescued while the bodies of four people were initially recovered. One child was missing and a search operation had been launched by navy divers to look for the child. 

 The body of the child was later found.