Panagoda Don Prince Solomon Anura Liyanage (known as A.S.P Liyanage) is a Sri Lanka

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n business magnate

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, the chairman and managing director of the ASP Group, a private real estate

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 group established in 1989. He is standing in the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010

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 for the Sri Lanka Labour Party.

Liyanage was a Millennium Development

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 Ambassador to the People's Summit during the G8 in Hokkaido, Japan in 2008, and to the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva in 2007. He spent ₨1 million on full page advertisements in the Sri Lankan press to congratulate US President George W. Bush

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 on his re-election in 2004, in advance of the result, which was reported internationally. He supported Obama in 2008. He produced the teleplay and film Suseema.

He received his education at Nalanda College Colombo. He has two daughters.