The deadline to register a person’s mobile telephone under his or her name is due to expire soon and the connections of any such unregistered mobile telephones would be disconnected, announced the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC). TRC head Anusha Pelpita told AdaderanaBiz that telecommunications providers were currently raising awareness regarding this issue among their subscribers…
In just about four days of its launch, the official Facebook page of the Prime Minister’s Office has attracted over 1.1 million ‘likes’. The cover photo on the Facebook page of PMO India shows 63-year-old Narendra Modi at work. He is an avid user of the social media. In the account, the PMO has posted…
Hong Kong can lay claim to the world’s most expensive store, after a 12 square metre shop unit in the city’s exclusive Russell Street sold for a staggering $US23 million ($24.9 million), or just over $2 million per square metre. Sebastian Skiff, property consultancy CBRE’s Asia executive director, believes that the sale has set a…
Brazil 2014 is already being referred to as the “sexiest World Cup” ever. It will also be the safest. The official condoms of this summer’s soccer tournament have reportedly been released in conjunction with an online Twitter campaign called #ProtectTheGoal. The South American country is known for its samba and wild parties that typically have…
Colombian pop sensation Shakira has released her new Brazil 2014 World Cup Anthem ‘La La La (Brazil 2014)’. For the video, Shakira has recruited her partner Gerard Pique, fellow Barcelona players Cesc Fabregas, Lionel Messi and Neymar, Eric Abidal – who didn’t make the France squad for the tournament – and even her son, Milan….
The government aims to make Sri Lanka a centre for manufacturing and assembling of vehicles with 30 percent value addition locally before being exported through free trade agreements, said Deputy Finance Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama. The Minister stated this in response to a question raised in parliament yesterday (21 May) by United National Party (UNP)…
China already has the world’s longest high-speed rail network. And the country aims to more than double the amount of high-speed railway by 2015 from the existing 10,000 km (6,000 miles) to 19,000 km—and eventually 25,000km by 2020. Officials want to build everything from an undersea railway tunnel from the Chinese shore to Taiwan—twice the length of the Channel Tunnel between…
While Udaya Gammanpila collected money from the public for his Western Provincial Council polls campaign and later said he would release a financial report of the funds utilized within a fortnight, it has not been made public so far. When AdaderanaBiz inquired from him about this, he said that there was no suitable environment during…
The reclaiming and filling of the marshes for the proposed city near the Kottawa interchange of the Southern Expressway is to be handed over to the Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLRDC). While commenting on this issue, Urban Development Authority (UDA) Deputy Director – Planning, Priyani Navaratne said, “We have requested for quotations…
Though the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) was first to introduce PayPal to Sri Lanka through the Sampath Bank, it is revealed that three other banks too have been now earmarked by the CBSL. A senior official from the CBSL told AdaderanaBiz, “We were to first introduce PayPal through the Sampath Bank. However, we…
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