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Watching the World T20 matches on TV – currently being played in Sri Lanka, I noticed a Tourist Board commercial on the theme ‘Refreshingly Sri Lanka – Wonder of Asia.’ Immediately I recalled last year’s stamp released to mark World Tourism Day. Sri Lanka issued ten stamps with an attractive souvenir sheet carrying all the ...
Reuters: Lewis Hamilton will leave McLaren and race for the Mercedes Formula One team next season after agreeing a three-year deal in which the Briton replace seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher. McLaren announced separately that Mexican Sergio Perez would partner 2009 champion Jenson Button in their line-up next season. The announcements by Mercedes and McLaren ...
Pradeep Carvalho was recently appointed as Head of Corporate Communication at Etisalat Sri Lanka. He joins Etisalat after serving in the capacity of Channel Communication Manager at Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). Pradeep has experience not only in the highly competitive Sri Lankan Market but also in the US Market, working at Fortune 500 companies both ...
Partnered by Abans, LG Electronics (LG) – a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, building on the overwhelming response of consumers, the LG Brand Shop has will expand to seven new exciting locations within Abans Elite Showrooms in Katunayake, Dalugama, Dehiwala, Kalutara, Panadura, Rajagiriya and Welisara from 1 October. Besides comprising of the ...
Pintari Solutions is a cutting edge photography and video production studio. The team is headed by professional photographer Prishan Pandithage, a graduate of the prestigious Hallmark Institute of Photography, Massachusetts, USA. Backed by a crew of photographers, videographers, assistants, retouchers, video editors and back up staff with a combined experience of over 15 years including ...
India’s corporate giant TATA Steel’s Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Mr. Biren Bhuta is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming Best Corporate Citizen Award 2012 organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. The Best Corporate Citizen Award will be held for the ninth consecutive year on 12 Novemberat the Cinnamon Grand. ...
Streaming TV on the mobile phone, receiving live cricket updates, surfing websites and downloading games and wallpaper has received a speed-boost in Sri Lanka, thanks to Dialog and Opera Software joining forces to create a co-branded Opera Mini browser for millions of Dialog subscribers. Opera Mini is one of the world’s most popular browsers used ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) conducts many financial literacy programs targeting school children aimed at enhancing their knowledge on the capital market. This year the SEC conducted a television quiz program with the participation of Sinhala medium Advanced Level Commerce students at a Provincial level. The finals of the television quiz ...
UNITED NATIONS(Reuters): President Barack Obama will say on Tuesday the United States will “do what we must” to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against threatening attacks whose consequences would be devastating. Preparing to take the podium at the United Nations six weeks before the US presidential election, ...
The academics are marching. The students are marching. The Muslims are marching. Every day hundreds images of throngs of people shouting slogans and demonstrating blare across television screens, newspapers and of course, the internet. SMS news alerts about road closures and barricades abound as popular discontent rises to the surface through trade union agitation and ...
Reuters: Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web. The announcement, made by a government deputy minister on Sunday, came as state television announced Google ...
The rapidly advancing globalised corporate environment and the geographic expansion of corporate networks within and outside the country have brought into focus the urgent need for widely spread knowledge enhancement and training facilities. Therefore, it is clear that quick access to information, knowledge and quality training, are a crucial imperative in order to survive and ...
DE-CIX, the world’s largest internet exchange, located in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), has achieved a new data throughput record: Internet traffic at DE-CIX exceeded the two Tbit/s (terabits per second) mark for the first time ever. More than 480 internet service providers from over 50 countries are currently connected to the internet exchange, bringing the ...
Reuters: Barcelona’s Xavi crashed a shot into the top corner three minutes from the end and Lionel Messi forced a stoppage-time own goal as the hosts overcame stubborn Granada 2-0 to maintain their perfect La Liga start on Saturday. Lowly Granada were organised and dangerous on the break and it was only after Victor Valdes ...
Excel World Entertainment Park (EWE) – formerly known as Excel World – now a fully owned subsidiary of Browns Investments PLC, offers the whole family a one-stop wholesome entertainment spot in the hustle bustle of Colombo 10, one of the busiest areas in the City. In addition to a well orchestrated entertainment package, facilities for ...
Reuters: Facebook has an ugly little secret, a number disclosed nowhere in its voluminous filings to become a public company and now only vaguely addressed by corporate officials. An estimated 5.6 million Facebook clients – about 3.5 per cent of its US users – are children who the company says are banned from the site. ...
Reuters: Lionel Messi proved that anything Cristiano Ronaldo can do he can do better when he struck twice for Barcelona to rescue a 3-2 comeback win for the favourites at home to Spartak Moscow in their Champions League Group G opener on Wednesday. Ronaldo, hoping to end Messi’s three-year run as World Player of the ...
Singer Sri Lanka announced a partnership with Indian consumer durable giant Onida to provide the Sri Lankan market with 3D and SMART LED TVs.
Ever been to Hotel de Same Place? If you find it hard to believe, here’s the address: No. 83 & 85, Malay Street, Colombo 2. The esoteric roadside eatery’s venturesome owner says that he so named the hotel fearing that patrons may deem otherwise. “I wanted to assure my customers that my hotel will remain ...
A group of 50 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, mostly Tamils who were deported from Britain, will return to the country tomorrow, Immigration officials said. A group of 50 Sri Lankans are heading home on a special chartered flight arranged by the UK Border Agency (UKBA, the Business Standard reported. The deportation takes place despite a protest ...
BBDO was named as the Network of the Year on Tuesday at the Spikes Asia 2012, whilst DDB and Leo Burnett emerged second and third respectively. DDB Sydney was crowned Agency of the Year, with Dentsu Tokyo and BBDO Guerrero, Makati City taking second and third places respectively. Party Tokyo was named Independent Agency of ...
Houses 400 stalls, 40 international publishers to a expected million peopleBy Cheranka Mendis For Sri Lanka there is no better time to read than now. With Colombo International Book Fair (CIBF) opening its doors yesterday for a nine day journey, it is the time of the year to battle your way through the masses gathered ...
Houses 400 stalls, 40 international publishers to a expected million people By Cheranka Mendis For Sri Lanka there is no better time to read than now. With Colombo International Book Fair (CIBF) opening its doors yesterday for a nine day journey, it is the time of the year to battle your way through the masses ...
Gains exclusive rights to distribute state-of-the-art 3D and SMART LED TVs to Sri Lankan consumers By Cassandra Mascarenhas Singer Sri Lanka announced a partnership with Indian consumer durable giant Onida yesterday, which will now allow Singer to exclusively distribute Onida’s world-class range of modern TV throughout the island via its country-wide retail network. Onida ...
I wonder if you can remember the famous World Cup Soccer final some years back where the fourth referee intervened after the great Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final. It would have perhaps gone unnoticed if not the TV referral. In my view, if this had gone unnoticed, it ...
Avani Bentota Resort and Spa, reaffirms its penchant for trendsetting in hospitality with its comprehensive and multi-facetted new IP TV system.
Sri Lanka proud hosts of popular and shorter form of most entertaining tournament played in Asia for the first time; 20-teams, 20-day cricket fiesta ICC World T20 kicks off tomorrow Mega boost for tourism as 500 players and officials alone to take up 9,000 room-nights; hundreds of overseas fans, global sponsor officials and media to ...
SYDNEY(Reuters): Australia can win the Twenty20 World Cup this month, test captain Michael Clarke said on Thursday, even if they are ranked ninth in the world and will have to do it without him. Clarke quit the shortest form of the game after the final match of the 2010-11 Ashes debacle and will spend the ...
Reuters: David Ferrer recovered from a first-set wobble to secure the opening point for holders Spain in their Davis Cup semi-final at home to the United States with a 4-6 6-2 6-2 6-4 victory against Sam Querrey on Friday. World number five Ferrer only had a few days to prepare for the best-of-five tie on ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): Apple Inc on Wednesday took the wraps off the iPhone 5, the thinnest-ever version of a smartphone that yields the majority of its profit and helped it become the world’s most valuable corporation. Members of the media experience the iPod Nano after its introduction during Apple Inc.’s iPhone media event in San ...