New Chairman/Executive Committee (2017/18) appointed at 51st Annual General...
The 51st Annual General meeting of ICCSL was held recently at Hotel Galadari, Colombo. His Excellency Heinz Walker-Nederkoorn, the Ambassador of Switzerland to Sri Lanka and the Maldives graced the...
View ArticleVLCC assists the fight against Central Obesity
VLCC Wellness founded by Vandana Luthra in 1989 is a wellness services center operating on a large scale across eleven countries and over three hundred locations all over the globe. VLCC offers a wide...
View ArticleFairway English Creative Writing Workshop 2017
Fairway Holdings will conduct its second English Creative Writing Workshop on the 3rd and 4th of November 2017 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies....
View ArticleIconic Galaxy’s innovative 30:70 payment scheme receives overwhelming response
~ Offer open till 31st October for prospective home-buyers Leading infrastructure and property developer, Iconic Developments Ltd, developers of the upcoming Iconic Galaxy project, announced that its...
View ArticleEtihad Airways gives future pilot experience of a lifetime
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Earlier this month, six year old Adam Mohammad Amer of Egyptian-Moroccan origin, surprised pilots onboard an Etihad Airways flight from Morocco to Abu Dhabi by giving...
View ArticleSri Lanka reviews Grant Compact’s progress with U.S. Millennium Challenge...
Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera who is in Washington, on the sideline of the WB/IMF annual meeting, met Ms. Fatema Z. Sumar, the Regional Deputy Vice President for Europe,...
View ArticleSri Lankan shares rise for 4th session; beverage, diversified stocks up
Reuters – Sri Lankan shares rose for a fourth straight session on Friday and posted their highest close in more than 10 weeks, as investors bought beverage and diversified stocks, brokers said. The...
View ArticleSri Lanka poised to leapfrog the economy after long years of conflict and...
Sri Lanka under the unity government headed by President Maithripala Sirisena and the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe is poised to leapfrog the economy after long years of conflict and political...
View ArticleShiran Fernando, New Chief Economist of the Ceylon Chamber
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has appointed Mr. Shiran Fernando as its new Chief Economist, effective from 16th October, 2017, following the resignation of Mr. Anushka Wijesinha. Fernando, who holds a...
View ArticleAdditional loan of 18 million from OPEC for Kaluganga Development Featured
The Kaluganga Development Project is being implemented by the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment with the financial assistance of Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), Kuwait Fund for Arab...
View ArticleDr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy – Central Bank Governor of the Year South Asia
Global Capital – South Asia is awash with highly capable central bank chiefs, yet Indrajit Coomaraswamy fully deserves this award for his unstinting professionalism and for ushering his country through...
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Emirates launches US$15 million campaign to promote Dubai hub and inspire travel
Set to iconic soundtrack by Queen, campaign features airline’s global network and onboard product Emirates has launched a US$15 million campaign to inspire travel and promote the airline’s extensive...
View ArticleDialog Unveils South Asia’s First Narrowband IoT Enabled Network to...
Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier telecommunication services provider, unveils yet another cutting-edge technology solution with its foray into Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT). The first to...
View ArticleMore than 50 Combank branches to stay open on Oct 18 – Deepavali Festival Day
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced it will keep more than 50 branches open for business on Wednesday, 18th October, a Public and Bank holiday in respect of Deepavali Festival Day. The...
View ArticleSri Lankan shares snap winning streak, end lower on profit-taking
Reuters – Sri Lankan shares snapped a winning streak to end lower on Monday, slipping from their highest close in more than 10 weeks hit in the previous session, with investors booking profits in...
View ArticleCarmart retains MTI to strategize the legacy of the family business
Carmart, one of Sri Lanka’s pioneering auto businesses, has retained the services of MTI Consulting to chart the group’s strategic direction and to gear the business to capture the opportunities that...
View ArticleFinance Minister meets Deputy MG of the IMF
Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera while attending to the WB/IMF annual meeting in Washington at the conclusion of the meeting called on Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Deputy Managing...
View ArticleFitch Rates NTB’s Basel III Sub-Debt Issue ‘A-(lka) (EXP)’
Fitch Ratings has assigned Nations Trust Bank PLC’s (NTB, A(lka)/Stable) Sri Lanka rupee-denominated proposed Basel III-compliant subordinated unsecured debentures an expected National Long-Term Rating...
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Digital Disruption: IQ leads the charge in Sri Lanka
For the first time in Sri Lanka, Innovation Quotient -IQ- is bridging the gap between human insight, applied creativity and technical capability. And it’s bringing these solutions to top corporates,...
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AIS Innovation Centre to develop computational thinking
Asian International School (AIS), Colombo, in partnership with IgniterSpace and Create Lab of Singapore, last week unveiled its “AIS Innovation Centre” aimed at augmenting computational thinking and...
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