Sri Lanka: President Mahinda Rajapakse delivers 2009 budget at parliament. Imposes new taxes on imported food products, raises salary of armed forces.

SMS and MMS Your Voice to allvoices

• If you want to add your voice and contribute to this existing news event, use the event code (Event Code: @1717522), that you will find on each news event page, as the first word of the SMS or MMS message followed by a space then add your contribution (text, image or video). For example: @1717522 This is an amazing video of Greg Norman hitting a hole-in-one in Sydney, Australia. The first word of the message should be @1717522 (event code), to make sure the system attaches your voice to the right news event.
• Phone numbers to send SMS your voice are:
  • International – (Please check the SMS coverage table)
    +45 609 910280, +61 427 229537 or +44 780 0000352
  • United States SMS Short Code
    VOICES (864237)
  • For videos and images, use mms@allvoices.com or report@allvoices.com
• To report news via SMS or MMS check out the following link for instructions.