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Jayasinghe has been a journalist with Agence France - Presse (AFP) since 1987 and became the youngest AFP bureau chief, taking over responsibilities of covering Sri Lanka and the Maldives in at the age of 23.
Amal Jayasinghe is recorded as the first to inform the international media about the December 2004 Asian tsunami that killed over 31,000 people in the island.
This is recorded in http://www.lirneasia.net/wp-content/SLID.pdf
Amal Jayasinghe was consulted by the presidential Commission to investigate if the authorities could have taken measures to mitigate the effects of the December 26, 2004 tsunami.
In February 2006, Jayasinghe was conferred a French knighthood at a ceremony in Colombo, attended by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse.
French Ambassador Jean-Bernard de Vaivre conferred the Chevalier (Knight) of "Ordre National du Merite" (National Order of Higher Merits).
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