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Till recently, the only times you heard the names Oddusuddan, Kilinochchi, Jaffna or Vavuniya was in bleak dispatches about skirmishes that took place in the North and East of Sri Lanka, with the regions bearing the brunt of a three-decade long civil war. With peace returning to the region, cricket has not been far behind, ...

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New chief ministers for Sri Lanka’s North Central and Sabaragamuwa provinces were sworn-in before President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday. Maheepala Herath as Chief Minister for Sabaragamuwa Province and S.M. Ranjith as Chief Minister for North Central Province took oaths from the President. Both chief ministers have secured the highest number of preferential votes at the provincial ...

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 Reuters: Sri Lankan stocks edged up Monday as investors picked up telecommunication and banking shares, while retail investors made speculative plays, dealers said. The Colombo Stock Exchange’s main index, or all share price index (ASPI), ended 0.1%, or 5.83 points, firmer at 5,915.90. The index had risen 19% in 15 sessions through to Sept. 17 ...

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Expolanka Holdings PLC’s subsidiaries Expolanka (Pvt.) Limited, Expolanka Freight (EFL) and Hello Corp (Pvt.) Ltd walked away with top honours with two Gold, one Silver and a Merit Award at the National Chamber of Exporters Awards Ceremony for the Year 2011, held in Colombo. Expolanka Limited, the pioneer exporter of Sri Lanka’s fresh fruits and ...

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West Indies became the first team in ICC World Twenty20 history to advance beyond the league phase without registering a win when its final Group B clash, against Ireland, was abandoned on Monday (24 September) night.    West Indies and Ireland, who had both lost to Australia in their opening matches, finished on one point ...

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The Dialog Mercantile Rugby Sevens 2012 will be held on 23, 24 and 25 November at the Havelock Sports Club grounds. The tournament is powered by Dialog Axiata Plc for the ninth successive year since 2003. The 42nd Tournament is conducted by Mercantile Rugby Football Association (MRFA) under the Presidency of Wasantha Ramanayake. Entries are ...

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Mobitel, the country’s state owned mobile communication company intends to play a key role in national information and communication technology (ICT) transformation. It is going through an organisational revitalisation process in order to gear up to make a greater contribution towards national transformation led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Under its ‘Change to Lead.Now’ organ...

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By D.C. Ranatunga Gnanavalli grew up in the Eskdale Division of Park Estate near Ragalla. Her parents were employees of the estate. She read her first letters at the Child Development Centre (CDC) in the estate. With the grounding she got there, she continued her studies until she got admitted to the Eastern University and ...

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Sunil Poholiyadde, a veteran in the plantation industry has been appointed as the Managing Director of the Plantations Sector of the Richard Pieris Group which comprises Kegalle Plantations PLC, Namunukula Plantations PLC and Maskeliya Plantations PLC with effect from 12 August. Poholiyadde started his career in the plantation sector 36 years ago as an Assistant ...

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Sri Lankan plantation industry veteran Dan Seevaratnam was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award at The Asia Pacific HRM Congress, one of the most prestigious human resource summits in the world held in Bangalore, India, last week. The award marks a significant achievement for the local plantation sector which is a people intense industry, being ...

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The beautifully sculptured dancing figurines stood out striking against the milky white backdrop under a shower of golden light. Immersed partially on the wall right across were more female figures adorned by the glitter and glamour of an artistically designed creative selection of jewellery. Their dancing postures heightened by their ivory and pale golden dresses ...

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World Duty Free Group (WDFG), the leading duty free operator at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) along with the reputed beverage supplier, Brown Forman Worldwide, commenced another exciting mega promotion, ‘Cricket Fever 2012’ on 1 September to coincide with the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup, which will be held in Sri Lanka this September and ...

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Niru Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. opened its new office at Access Towers, Union Place last Thursday, which will handle sorting and grading of diamonds and dispatching orders for customers of prestigious Niru Diamonds Ltd., Israel. The office was declared open by Gem and Jewellery Authority of Sri Lanka Chairman Prasad Galhena and the event was attended ...

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45 nurses took the ‘Florence Nightingale Pledge’ last week as a part of the 27th anniversary celebrations of Sri Lanka’s private healthcare pioneer Nawaloka Hospital. The pledge was taken by nurses who had completed their first year of training. The Nawaloka Hospital Nursing School currently comprises about 200 trainee nurses, all in either their first, ...

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Anura Lokuhetty the President of The Hotels Association of Sri Lanka and also the Chairman of the Asia Council on Tourism has been requested to Chair the 26th CACCI Conference on Current Asian Tourism from October3 to 5, 2012 in Kathmandu, Nepal. He will be presenting a paper on the Current State of Tourism in ...

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The centenary of the civil aviation in Sri Lanka was celebrated yesterday by the Civil Aviation Authority with a live program by Sri Lanka Rupavahini. Civil Aviation Authority Chairman Gen. Rohan Daluwatte, Ministry of Civil Aviation Secretary Dr. Ravindra Ruberu, SriLankan Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe and CEO Kapila Chandrasena participated in the live telecast – ...

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Central Hospital Ltd, an internationally accredited multi-specialty hospital of the Asiri Group take pleasure in announcing, that the hospital was certified with the ISO 22000:2005 Standard for Food Safety Management with effect from 9 August. The ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System Certification is the highest and most recognised food-related certification in the world. It ...

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The Golden Key Eye & ENT Hospital has announced the appointment of an Advisory Committee including leading medical professionals to assist in the management of the hospital and its further development. Professor Rohan Jayasekara, Senior Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colombo, is Chairman of the Advisory Committee, which comprises of ...

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George Steuart Health (GSH) has been appointed as the sole local agent for SPOLKINEMATICSby SPOL Sports Tape Korea. SPOL is the first Korean sports medical company specializing in sports taping therapeutics to ever be established, way back in 1999 and have since been developing the technology and education system on effective usage of taping the ...

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Coca-Cola Sri Lanka’s CountryHR Manager won the prestigious Human Resources Leadership Award at the ASIA PACIFIC HRM CONGRESS held on 6th September 2012 in Bangalore, India. Nilanthi Jayatillake, Country Human Resources Manager, Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited, was recognized for her valuable contribution to the field of HR in the country and her work done ...

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By Rashika Fazali The Tron Legacy was brought alive at the Nations Corporate Quiz organised by Nations Trust Bank (NTB) last Friday at a high tech event held at Cinnamon Grand.   Running for the sixth year, the Nations Corporate Quiz is structured to foster amicable relationships and competition within the corporate sector of Sri ...

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Recording a year-on-year sales volume growth of 400% in the current financial year and targeting a further 100% growth in the year ahead, Carmart, the sole distributor in Sri Lanka for Peugeot, has created a strong niche in the market and is poised for aggressive expansion in the coming year with an extremely diversified product ...

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The Hirdaramani Group recently launched a group wide employee talent show. Developed in partnership with renowned Sri Lankan artist Navaratne Gamage, the project aims to give opportunity for employees to showcase a wide variety of talents from singing and dancing to composing, acting, presenting and writing. The talent show launched its first stage in September ...

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A group of SharePoint developers gathered at the Galadari hotel, on 18 September, for the 2ndannual SharePoint Camp, organized by the Colombo SharePoint Communitywith the sponsorship of 99X Technology (www.99xtechnology.com) This event, which was free of charge to all participants, gave local SharePoint Developers the opportunity to compare notes with people who share the same ...

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Standard Chartered, in furtherance of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed with Youth Business Sri Lanka (YBSL), a project of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), handed out micro-financing facilities to 29 young men and women of Jaffna who had been affected by the war to start up businesses, on Friday, 21 September 2012. Nine ...

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Jason Tan, HSBC’s Head of Client Management – Global Payments and Cash Management in Asia Pacific, arrived yesterday, on a two-day official visit.   Tan, who is responsible for the development of HSBC’s Client Management platform across Asia Pacific, will meet Nick Nicolaou, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives, key customers and the ...

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Reuters: A deeply divided and unproductive Congress wrapped up its final business before November’s elections early on Saturday as the US Senate passed a stopgap measure to fund federal programs and avoid an 1 government shutdown. The 62-30 vote on the funding bill, which now moves to President Barack Obama’s desk to be signed into ...

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AFTER more than four years, Sri Lanka can after this week say that there are no Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the country – officially, at least. Sri Lanka has begun resettling the last of its internally displaced on Monday, but the move has been criticised by the main Tamil party, that claims they are ...

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Leaving nobody out in the cold In India, the Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion defined the concept as: “The process of ensuring access to financial services, timely and adequate credit where needed by vulnerable groups such as weaker sections and low income groups, at an affordable cost.” At the recent FutureGov SAARC Summit in Colombo, ...

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Bartleet Finance PLC, which has been in the forefront of providing financial services in the Embilipitiya area, moved to a convenient and spacious location in the heart of the town to provide better services to its clients. The relocation will provide it greater opportunity to synergise with its customers and enhance their potential to grow ...

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