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Maalu Maalu Resort & Spa, a tourism resort set up in the east with the boom of tourism after the end of terrorism in 2009, hosted its first wedding on 18th February 2012 at the pristine Passekudah beach, in the East Coast of Sri Lanka. This was the first of its kind held in this ...
Derana Miss Sri Lanka for Miss World Pushpika De Silva has won the award for the Best National Costume at the Miss Tourism Queen International 2011 currently underway in Xian, China. She has also been chosen to the top 20 in the competition.
Sri Lankan Government has given permission to set up 35 five star hotels across the country, said a media report. According to the report, the Government has approved setting up of eleven five star hotels in Colombo and another 24 in outstation areas. Minister Basil Rajapaksa has said, out of the 24 five star hotels that will ...
‘Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days, Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one in the Closet lay” -Omar Khayyam .The Rubaiyat This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight today on the cancer of casinos and gambling ...
By Ranee Mohommed For the third consecutive year, the Sri Lanka Design Festival(SLDF) showcases Sri Lanka’s award winning apparel industry to a specifically invited global audience of buyers, retailers, sourcing specialists and backward integration supply chain partners -a key event of this apparel industry agenda at the festival is its Apparel Industry Fashion Show. The ...
Sri Lank's war victorious army is on the lookout for prime land in Colombo to build a star class hotel, accommodating to the needs of the countries booming tourism industry.
Cricket stadiums handed over to the military Three of Sri Lanka’s international cricket stadiums , including the newly built stadiums in Pallekele and Hambantota, have been handed over to the military indefinitely because Sri Lanka Cricket is unable to afford the maintenance costs. The navy will look after Pallekelle stadium, the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo by ...
Colombo: Newbie Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha has flown down to Sri Lanka on a four-day visit to film a documentary and do a magazine photoshoot. The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau said that the 24-year-old actress will do a photoshoot at the world heritage site Sigiriya for the European life style magazine L`Officiel and later do ...
The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority is positive about the China Aviation Technology Import-Export Corporation's (CATIC) five star hotel project which is expected to be launch by the end of thi .....
By Ravi Perera Normal or Western? That was the standard question at touristy places then. Normal stood for poor quality, non-AC rooms, no cutlery, squatting toilet, food with a lot of curry stuff and so on. Abnormal or Western meant an up-grade. Generally, anything local fell into the category of normal. I discovered that even ...
Sri Lanka Tourism Awards 2010 organized by the Sri Lanka Tourism and the Ministry of Economic Development was held at the Waters Edge Hotel Battaramulla, last evening (27) with the participation of the Deputy Minster of Economic Development, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena as the chief guest.
By M.S.Shah Jahan Super slim Kate-Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, 29, the princess-to-be has a worry over her engagement ring with Ratnapura sapphire. Kate has slimmed down so much that she had to shrink her famous engagement ring to fit her finger...
Germany’s biggest tour operator says Sri Lanka is the Real Tourism Star in Asia. Rewe Touristik, has identified Sri Lanka as the “real star” in Asia’s boom in tourism prompting it to step up focus and investments. Rewe Touristik, formerly LTU-Touristik, is the biggest German tour operator to the Far East. Given the post-war rebound ...
Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, proudly and justly proclaimed: ‘I found Rome built of brick; I leave it clad in marble.’ Most potentates and rulers in contemporary times — great and potty — entertain such Caesarian visions. Though cities ‘clothed in marble’ are not possible to be built even in Western capitals during these ...
by Darini Rajasingham Senanayake On 4 February, Sri Lanka celebrated its 63rd birthday. After nearly three decades of armed conflict, it is now one of Southasia’s calmest and fastest-growing countries. Its social indicators, apart from the northeast zone, remain the...
500 acres of prime land at Kuchchaveli in the Trincomalee district of the Eastern Province are to be sold for 90 million US dollars (10 billion Sri Lankan rupees) by the tourism authority of the occupying Sri Lanka to 5-Star hotel entrepreneurs, according to media reports from Colombo. The one-off payment is for 99 years lease, at the rate of 20 million rupees per acre land, lankabusinessonline .....
The concept of providing lodging houses for tourists is being launched to facilitate tourists. Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that this programme would be instrumental in providing the economic benefits to the people. He said that the aim of the government is to make tourism a people’s industry. The number of rooms available for ...
Sri Lanka will soon get a Seven Star Hotel. Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Board said the new hotel will be constructed in addition to the seven five star tourist hotels in the country. Chairman of the Tourism Board Nalaka Godahewa said that 2011 is a significant year for tourism in Sri Lanka. A ...
Hong Kong-based leisure group Shangri-La has signed a deal to acquire land to build a seven-star hotel in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, the chairman of the tourism authority Nalaka...
By Ravinatha Pandukabhaya Aryasinha Ananda College Old Boys' Association Olcott Oration 2010...
Bollywood super star Vivek Oberoi’s wedding took place last Sunday in a five star hotel in Bangalore. Among the Indian Bollywood super stars, Indian government and opposition politicos who were present on the occasion there was also a special guest. He was none other than Sri Lanka’s (SL) heir to the Rajapaksa Dynasty, Namal Rajapaksa. Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi and MP Namal Rajapak...
WARS can still be won, even against formidable terrorist organisations. And Sri Lanka shows how. That is the core message of the country's security supremo, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a rare interview with The Australian: by Rowan Callick His...
Winning the Peace by Ross Tuttle After 30 years of war, Sri Lanka's Tamil community is finally connected again with the outside world. But life under occupation has its own tensions -- and renewed conflict is always a possibility. JAFFNA,...
Minor International PLC Thailand together with its local partner Hemas Holdings PLC, and through its subsidiary Serendib Hotels PLC, recently announced the acquisition of 100% shares of Cyprea Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd., the owner and operator of Kani Lanka Resort and Spa, Kalutara for US$ 22 million. Kani Lanka is spread across an 18 acre land ...
By: Dr.Rajasingham Narendran "The least government is the best government. We should have just as little as we can get along with"–President Harry Truman We have glimpses of the unimportant among the constitutional changes contemplated. However, what has been revealed is not what we need. It is like watching an awkward, Burqa-clad cabaret dancer, determined to perform without r...
(EXCLUSIVE) We are looking to invest in a variety of sectors not just tourism or financial service, maybe in all ten sectors we operate in, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. Anand Mahindra told in an exclusive interview with Ada Derana. .
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson Pushpendra Koddituwakku, an automobile technologist today lives in Australia. He left Sri Lanka in 2007 together with his wife who is also a professional. Neither one of them want to ever return to Sri ...
by Frederica Jansz Since the bloody 30 year war ended in a shoot-out in a remote mangrove in the North, in Colombo we have all been enjoying a semblance of peace. Of course there are yet no strong institutions which would boost Sri Lanka’s democracy. Good discipline is sadly lacking at all levels for peace ...
Weekend extravaganza will feature world renowned DJs, entertainers and a host of theme parties, rave music, jaw-dropping acts, state-of-the-art lighting and sound, international DJs and artistes. Scintillate 2010 will come to life from July 30 to August 1 at Amaya Reef, Hikkaduwa. Event Connections Private Limited, in partnership with French Seduction, a world renowned international ...
M.R.’s goal of 2.5 mn. tourists by 2016 The country’s major hotel operators have planned to build hotel rooms meeting only 6 percent of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s target of getting 2. 5 million tourists by 2016. Hiran Cooray, Chairman Jetwing Group, one of the country’s leading hotel investors, in response to a question, told participants ...