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 EVER since their ice-breaking
meeting last year, President
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Suu Kyi have shown uncommon
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competed to get into
Stanford. Then he competed
to get into Stanford Law
School. Then he competed to
become a clerk for a federal judge.
Thiel won all those competitions.
But then he competed to get a
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Sri Lankan tea output drops 22.6%
IANS
COLOMBO
SRI Lanka’s tea production fell 22.6 percent in March compared with the same period of 2011, said the state-run Tea Board on Wednesday, fueling fears that the industry is heading for tough times.
Tea brokers blame fewer rainfalls and longer dry periods in the higher elevations where most tea is grown for the drop in production.
Sri Lanka’s highest foreign exchange earning crop fell to 27.21 million kg last month compared with 35.13 million kg the previous March, according to latest data released by the Tea Board.
Overall production for the first quarter also declined by 6.7 percent to 73.18 million kg from 78.40 million kg in 2011, reported Xinhua. Tea trades are also hampered by a possible drop in exports to the Middle East, especially Iran as sanctions tighten next month. Iran buys 5 percent of Sri Lanka’s tea production while the Middle East is the market for 55 percent of the island’s exports.
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