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- Four New Universities: A Premature Budget Proposal For Cheats (Category: Breaking News)
- Entertainment & Intellectual Activity In Jaffna – The Ramanathan Lectures (Category: Breaking News)
- My Jaffna Is No Longer My Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Suppressing Free Speech & Religious Freedom By Labelling Them Hate Speech (Category: Breaking News)
To be sure, not all has gone well for Northern Ireland since the coming into being of the British province’s Good Friday Agreement on April 10th 1998. For instance, it has been without a ruling executive since January 2017, when the province’s power-sharing government’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness resigned in protest over what has […]
- UK, EU hail new chapter with deal to fix Brexit trade spat (Category: Breaking News)
- A lasting political solution through power sharing (Category: Breaking News)
- Joe Biden celebrates family ties in pub on Ireland tour (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden begins Northern Ireland, Ireland trip (Category: Breaking News)
A Zimbabwe preacher with links to a controversial Sri Lankan “prophet” has been accused of gold-smuggling. Uebert Angel, who was in Sri Lanka in 2020 and 2022, to meet Prophet Jerome Fernando, has been accused in Zimbabwe of offering to use his status to launder millions of dollars through a gold-smuggling scheme. Angel, appointed ambassador-at-large […]
- Mahinda’s links with Ubert and Jerome likely to be probed (Category: Breaking News)
- Zimbabwe preacher linked to Sri Lankan pastor stripped of title (Category: Breaking News)
- Zimbabwe preacher with links to Sri Lanka denies allegations (Category: Breaking News)
- Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa wins second term in disputed vote (Category: Breaking News)
A top level delegation from 29 colleges and universities, primarily from the US, will be in Sri Lanka fm 30 September to 2 October as part of the Council of International School (CIS) South Asia tour. A spokesman for Scholarships for USA said the representatives will talk to students and parents about the university admission ...
- Ranugge new Executive Director at TISL (Category: Business)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- Top American schools in town (Category: Business)
- Tharshini’s advice for student placed at Tusculum College (Category: Business)
The vibrantly coloured, discreetly patterned and beautifully crafted garments by C.h.a.r.l.e.n.e. has been all the rage in Colombo since the brand’s launch a few weeks back. What’s so great about C.h.a.r.l.e.n.e.? And how did it get there? Let’s hear it from ‘the Couturist’ behind the label, Ms. Charlene Thuring. “I studied fashion at the Academy ...
- Coats Lanka recognises AOD’s emerging fashion talent with special award (Category: Business)
- Creative industries employ internationally qualified design graduates from AOD (Category: Business)
- AOD collaborates with Hameedia for brand new fashion collection (Category: Business)
By Rashika Fazali Whenever you hear “Give me everything tonight!” you think of numerous people, and of course Afrojack! Asia’s premier electronic dance music festival is coming to Sri Lanka for the first time on 6 October 2012 at CH&FC grounds. Percept Limited, one of the largest entertainment media companies in India, announced on Thursday ...
- Sunburn heads to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Percept to hold Sunburn festival in Sri Lanka this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Sunburn Festival coming to Sri Lanka in October (Category: Breaking News)
- Colombo Music Festival promises to dazzle music lovers (Category: Business)
AOD (Academy of Design), Sri Lanka’s international campus renowned for producing industrially-experienced designers, recently announced a special collaboration with Hameedia. Through this project AOD fashion students will work with Hameedia brand to produce a collection of shirt-dresses. AOD principal, British fashion designer Karen MacLeod said that AOD encourages students to work on live p...
- Next generation of design leaders at REVEAL 2012 (Category: Business)
- AOD goes global with Northumbria UK (Category: Business)
- Creative industries employ internationally qualified design graduates from AOD (Category: Business)
Making spaces to suit businesses, individuals, governments and public masses is a science that requires extensive knowledge and training. Bringing in good aesthetics into these spaces is a skill developed through correct education in interior design. Chathuri Kannagara is a young interior designer who qualified with international level interior design degree education from AOD. Today, ...
- Internationals standards in interior design displayed by AOD students (Category: Business)
- Next generation of design leaders at REVEAL 2012 (Category: Business)
- Academy Of Design Alumni Breaks New Ground (Category: Breaking News)
Design is a professional pathway that offers more choices than most conventional careers. As it becomes more and more important to the industrial world, the design sector has expanded to include new creative careers. Mario Sittampalam who graduated as a fashion designer from AOD, is a designer who transformed his life by leading the way ...
- Creative industries employ internationally qualified design graduates from AOD (Category: Business)
- Advertising industry embraces young creative talent (Category: Business)
- Academy Of Design Alumni Breaks New Ground (Category: Breaking News)
Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone who is currently filming for ''Jism 2' in Sri Lanka rang in her 31st birthday on the sets of her first Bollywood movie, IANS reported "Happy Birthday Sunny! Sunny celebrates her birthday with the unit members in Sri Lanka," producer Mahesh Bhatt posted on Twitter. Her birthday was on Sunday. She cut a chocolate cake, which read "Happy Birthday Sunny&...
- Jism-2 Star – Sunny Leone Comes To Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Mostly sunny and milder today (Category: USA, Maine)
- Mostly sunny and milder today (Category: USA, Maine)
- Mostly sunny and milder today (Category: USA, Maine)
By Dr. Laksiri Fernando Asian Tribune: I am here not talking about Karen Connelly’s popular love story by the name of ‘Burmese Lessons,’ but rather Aung San Suu Kyi’s entry into Parliament as the Leader of the Opposition in Myanmar (or Burma) with 42 other members who were elected early April in a by-election from ...
- ‘Burmese Lessons’ for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar: South Asia’s other ‘Small Miracle’? (Category: Business)
- It breaks my heart to see the Indian Prime Minister pose cordially with the butchers of Burma (Category: Breaking News)
- New Myanmar Democracy: Generals In Plain Clothes (Category: Breaking News)
| by Dr Laksiri Fernando ( May 03, 2012, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) I am here not talking about Karen Connelly’s popular love story by the name of ‘Burmese Lessons,’ but rather Aung San Suu Kyi’s entry into Parliament yesterday as the leader of the opposition in Myanmar (or Burma) with 42 other members who were elected early April in a by-election from the National League for Democracy (NLD). Th...
- ‘Burmese Lessons’ for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- New Myanmar Democracy: Generals In Plain Clothes (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar: South Asia’s other ‘Small Miracle’? (Category: Business)
- It breaks my heart to see the Indian Prime Minister pose cordially with the butchers of Burma (Category: Breaking News)
AOD student Nithya Lamahewa wins Coats fashion award Coats Thread Exports and other industry leaders supported a special fashion show that celebrated the young talent in fashion, hosted by the Academy of Design (AOD). AOD’s final year fashion undergraduate Nithya Lamahewa was presented a prestigious award by global thread leader Coats Thread. Coats Global Marketing ...
- Coats Thread ties up with AOD (Category: Business)
- Coats Thread partners Design Festival 2011 (Category: Business)
- Coats presents thread to Gangarama Temple (Category: Business)
The world’s largest sewing thread and needlecraft supplies manufacturer and marketer, Coats Thread PLC is also a key member of Sri Lanka’s apparel vertical integration industry, and a longstanding supporter of fashion and design. Coats recently extended its patronage towards Academy of Design (AOD), by collaborating with many ventures taken on by the school. Through ...
- Coats Lanka recognises AOD’s emerging fashion talent with special award (Category: Business)
- Coats Thread partners Design Festival 2011 (Category: Business)
- Coats presents thread to Gangarama Temple (Category: Business)
Principal of AOD British Designer Karen MacLeod talks about her life in fashion and her vision for building AOD to be South Asia’s number oneDesigner Karen Macleod moved to Colombo to take over as principal of the Academy of Design (AOD) in Colombo with the vision to make AOD the No. 1 design school in ...
- AOD collaborates with Hameedia for brand new fashion collection (Category: Business)
- Coats Lanka recognises AOD’s emerging fashion talent with special award (Category: Business)
- Enriching interior architecture industry with fresh creativity (Category: Business)
The Academy of Design (AOD) – South Asia’s celebrated design campus is actively involved in the advancement of Sri Lanka’s creative industry. Apart from these special ventures, AOD has also contributed to the local design industry by producing a generation of proficient designers and design entrepreneurs of international caliber. Maneesha Perera is one such alumnus ...
- Sri Lanka Design Festival commences (Category: Breaking News)
- AOD Graphic Design Department powered with latest Apple iMac techonology (Category: Business)
- Creative industries employ internationally qualified design graduates from AOD (Category: Business)
By Bandu de Silva It looks as if all Pundits have spoken their mind on the recent performance of the Foreign Service and there is nothing more left to be said. But as an old Foreign Service hand, now watching...
- Saving the Sri Lankan Foreign Service: Wrestlers, County Cricketers, and Pac-Boat riders to Hard... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Foreign Service must put its own house in order before anything else (Category: Breaking News)
- Geneva challenge: Sabry needs to review ‘case’ anew (Category: Breaking News)
- Jayanatha Dhanapala submissions before LLR Commission - Full transcript (Category: Breaking News)
For every successful South Sudan, there are several suppressed Chechnyas. And every leader like Putin who aspires to crush secessionist movements has been looking with awe at Sri Lanka and its leader, Mahinda Rajapaksa. by John Feffer Co-director, Foreign Policy...
- Sri Lanka must be concerned how Russia and China let down Sudan at the UN (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamils for Obama Pushes Obama (Category: Breaking News)
- Vijitha Yapa presents paper on democracy at international conference (Category: Business)
- Future Direction (Category: Business)
The proxy party of Myanmar’s military junta has swept the polls winning 187 seats of the 219 seats counted by Thursday, the Times of India reported. Observers believe that more than 80 per cent of seats in the new parliament will be under the control of the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Party. There was ...
- Suu Kyi’s party claims landslide win in Myanmar vote (Category: Business)
- Suu Kyi to make Myanmar parliament debut on April 23 (Category: Business)
- Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes historic debut in Parliament (Category: Business)
- Myanmar: South Asia’s other ‘Small Miracle’? (Category: Business)
Tamils of a different stripe by Gordon Weiss The Tigers are history and Sri Lanka’s ethnic minority remains under the government’s thumb. Think about it – who wants to portray the boat people as a security threat?...
- Two tales of Sri Lankans: 'Loss of humanitarian aspect and Canada's own historic benevolence tow... (Category: Breaking News)
- Vancouver Activists Rally in Support of Tamil Refugees (Category: Breaking News)
- Rights of Tamils on boat need to be respected - Amnesty International Canada, Canadian Council f... (Category: Breaking News)
- Fate of ship steered by two forces – Ottawa and Tamil diaspora (Category: Breaking News)
by Ann Powers There are so many ways to say “I love you,” and if you’re singing, it can be hard to say anything else. Pop stars are our love machines, expressing desires people are otherwise too uptight or disconnected...
- Track in M.I.A.'s new album: 'kind of lullaby one would sing to a baby android' - Wall Street Jo... (Category: Breaking News)
- M.I.A.'s New Record is Full of Greatness (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka govt pressuring fans - MIA (Category: Breaking News)
- M.I.A. Gives Audience Middle Finger At Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Show (Category: Entertainment)
Daydreams of beach sunsets have been replaced by anxious Internet checks for many vacationers headed to the Gulf Coast, while hotel clerks there are busy answering calls about a massive oil spill and whether - just maybe - there's a shot at a refund. The answer is typically no.Meanwhile, the phones are also steadily ringing for tourism officials hundreds of miles away at Atlantic Coast beaches lik...
Last night PBS aired The Buddha, a new TV special about the sage's life, impact, and particular relevance to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. By filmmaker David Grubin, the documentary features the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia have depicted the Buddha's life through art rich in beauty and complexit...
- Who and What Is Buddha, Really? (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: Raising Power and Energy to Meet the Challenge of Living (Category: Features)
- Lama Surya Das: Life In Buddha Standard Time (Category: Features)
- Vaishali: Mindful in the Modern Age of Technology (Category: Features)
Last night PBS aired The Buddha, a new TV special about the sage's life, impact, and particular relevance to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. By filmmaker David Grubin, the documentary features the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia have depicted the Buddha's life through art rich in beauty and complexit...
- Lama Surya Das: Who and What Is Buddha, Really? (Category: Features)
- Lama Surya Das: Life In Buddha Standard Time (Category: Features)
- Vaishali: Mindful in the Modern Age of Technology (Category: Features)
- Ken McLeod: What Is Enlightenment? (Category: Features)
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