The Foundation of Goodness (FoG) recently signed an MOU with Tokyo Cement Group to extend the company’s Coral Conservation project in the Southern Coast. The longstanding affiliation between Tokyo Cement and the Foundation of Goodness (FOG) saw the charitable foundation enlisting their diving and training arm: ‘Dive Lanka, Dive Seenigama’, to play an active role…
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the leading telecommunication services provider in the country expanded its branch network to Weliweriya and Kadawatha with the opening of its most recent teleshops to serve the growing number of customers in Gampaha district. With the opening of this latest teleshops, customers are given greater convenience and faster service provisioning and…
Emirates, Premier Partner and the Official Airline of Expo 2020 Dubai, today unveiled the design and visitor experience concepts of its ultramodern pavilion for the 6 month mega-event. The Emirates Pavilion’s design and visitor experience will utilise interactive technologies and design-thinking focusing on the future of commercial aviation. Emirates has already broken ground on the pavilion and…
Second highest rating in the world, as ranked by U.S. Green Building Council Brandix, the leading Apparel solutions provider in Sri Lanka, marked a momentous milestone in its journey towards Sustainability by securing the highest LEED Platinum rating in Sri Lanka for its manufacturing facility in Batticaloa under the ‘Industrial Manufacturing’ category. Significantly, this rating…
Throughout the past two years, over 230,000 people in Sri Lanka have contracted the dengue virus, while over 500 of them have resulted in fatalities. 32-40% of these patients are children below the age of nine. Sri Lanka frequently faces unpredictable outbreaks of dengue fever. Each monsoon season brings in two peaks of dengue fever…
Huawei recently announced its business results for the first quarter of 2019. In Q1 of this year, Huawei generated CNY 179.7 billion or US $ 26 billion in revenue, an increase of 39% year-on-year. The company’s net profit margin in Q1 2019 was about 8%, slightly higher than the same period last year. Huawei…
Brown Hospitals, a fast growing healthcare service provider, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF). The agreement will give the NITF’s 2.5 million members and their families access to Browns Hospitals’ state-of-the-art facilities and services at a concessionary rate. The MoU was signed by Sanath C. De Silva…
Hameedia, the pioneer in men’s fashion celebrates its 70th anniversary this year of providing superior quality menswear and exceptional services to Sri Lankan men from all walks of life. Its brand new collection which was featured at the recently held HSBC Colombo Fashion Week under the theme, ‘Men in Black’ redefined menswear with models adorning…
Noritake Lanka Porcelain Pvt Ltd recently won two prestigious awards in recognition of its CSR efforts; one at the recently concluded JASTECA CSR / Sustainability Awards and the other at the Sri Lanka Corporate Health and Productivity Awards. It received the JASTECA CSR / Sustainability 2018 Gold Award for its restoration work on the de-graded…
In a landmark move that will redefine urban lifestyles in Sri Lanka, John Keells Properties (JKP) has entered into a partnership with Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) and John Keells Information Technology (JKIT) to implement a turnkey smart living solution developed exclusively for upcoming projects in the JKP portfolio. The announcement of the partnership between the…
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